Hi, Irish Times Magazine Oct 21 2006 'Land's End' by Turtle Bunbury - (a forthcoming book) pg.15 Paddy Gleeson Born 1904. Farmer, Bodyke, Co. Clare. Paddy Gleeson, a 103-year-old bachelor farmer ......... The Gleesons were cattle farmers from Sixmilebridge. At the turn of the century Gleeson's father Bartholomew, took on the pub in O'Callaghan's Mills. He soon married the mill owner's daughter, and, on May 20th, 1904, Gleeson was born. He was followed by four siblings before his mother died, in 1911. " I was nine years old when she left us, with a baby sister and all." ............. In October 1916 Bartholomew sold the pub and moved to New York with his two younger sons and daughter. Gleeson, by now 14, was left behind with his older sister, to look after an elderly aunt. "She had no one to care for her, so I stopped there." Gleeson never saw his father again. "He died in New York and is buried there." Bartholomew can be seen in the 1901 census at Mountievers, Sixmilebridge 118/12. Pg.16 Michael "Patsy" Flanagan Born 1924. Drummer and farmer, Bartra, Lahinch, Co. Clare. ......... Flanagan is known locally as Michael Patsy, to distinguish him from all the other Michael Flanagans in Lahinch. Born to a small farming family in the south Co.Clare parish of Mullagh ........... .....Musical blood flows on both sides. His father was a kinsman of Bobby Casey; his mother counted Junior Crehan and Liam Og O'Flynn amoung her relatives. .......... Declan