Willie's Home Page

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" background="../Fourth%20Web%20Page%20(Cont'd)/yellowground.gif"> <tr> <td width="33%"><p align="center"><img src="../Fourth%20Web%20Page%20(Cont'd)/welcomesign.gif" alt="Welcome to Willie's Home Pages -- Personal Web Space of Irish Writer, Willie Walsh" align="top" width="265" height="77"></p> </td> <td width="33%"><p align="center"><html> <head> <base TARGET="_top"> <meta NAME="keywords" CONTENT="Irish writer, English, english writing, find Walsh, go to walsh, reading, read, author, poetry, poems, prose, poetic prose, web page, Willie Walsh, willie walsh, will walsh, william walsh, Will Walsh, William Walsh, Dungeons & Dragons, Dungeons and Dragons, D&D, D and D, D+D, AD&D, ADandD, AD+D, A+D+D, ADD, DD, role-play, roll play, roleplay, role-playing games, rpgs, RPGs, RPGS, RPG's, rpg's, r.p.g.s, R.P.G.s, R.P.G.'S, Irish Tourist Board, Bord Fáilte, modules, Dragon Magazine, Dungeon Adventures, chat, chatroom, club house, Clubhouse, games, wargames, war games, roll play, personal web page, personal home page, published writing, published writer, unpublished, Bruxelles, bruxelles, bruxelles pub, Harry St, harry street, Harry Street, Grafton Street, grafton street, grafton st, Graffton Street, Graffton St, Cuckoo's Nest, Cookoos, cuckoos nest, cookoos, web page design, computer tuition, computer learning, computer lessons, teaching, 1970, 1980, 1966, 1999, 2000, Dublin, dublin, tallaght, tallaght community school, st aongus, st aengus, Tymon North, tymon north, Tallaght, Tallaght Community School, TCS, T.C.S., T.C.S, Ireland, Republic of Ireland, Southern Ireland, Europe"> </head>  <SCRIPT LANGUAGE='JavaScript1.1' SRC='http://mysearch.looksmart.com/javabox.go?crid=02caa74027361f07'> </SCRIPT>  <ALT="Feel free to enter keywords here to search this site for items in which you may have a special interest"> </p> </td> <td width="34%" background="../Fourth Web Page (Cont'd)/yellowground.gif"><p align="center"><a href="http://www.senac.com/chats/5897"><img src="../Fourth%20Web%20Page%20(Cont'd)/enterchatbtn.gif" alt="Enter the Clubhouse Chat Room Here" border="0" width="247" height="77"></a></p> </td> </tr> </table> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" background="../Fourth%20Web%20Page%20(Cont'd)/yellowground.gif"> <tr> <td width="50%"><dl> <dt><a href="http://www.irelandoffline.com/"><font size="2"><strong><img src="../Fourth%20Web%20Page%20(Cont'd)/BannerAd1.gif" border="0" width="468" height="60"></strong></font></a><a href="http://homepage.eircom.net/~williew/faq.htm"><font size="2"><strong><img src="../Fourth%20Web%20Page%20(Cont'd)/faqs.gif" alt="Frequently Asked Questions about this site" align="left" border="0" hspace="0" width="109" height="18"></strong></font></a></dt> </dl> </td> <td width="50%"><dl> <div align="center"><center> <dt><IMG src="http://cgi3.fxweb.com/v2-trackrun.cgi?userid=P02156&boost=246" height="31" width="88" ALT="FxWeb Counter"></dt> </center></div><div align="center"><center> <dt><a name="Made"><font size="2"><strong>Made</strong></font></a><font size="2"><strong> in 800 x 600 resolution. <script> if(screen) {document.writeln("Your screen resolution is: "+screen.width+" x "+screen.height); } </script> </strong></font><strong>...</strong></dt> </center></div><div align="center"><center> <dt><a href="http://home.beseen.com/cultures/wwalsh/resolution.htm"><font size="1"><em><strong>How do I change Screen Resolution?</strong></em></font></a></dt> </center></div><div align="center"><center> <dt><font size="2"><strong>Most recent update: February 08, 2002</strong></font></dt> </center></div> </dl> </td> <td><dl> <dt><img src="../Fourth%20Web%20Page%20(Cont'd)/willie.jpg" alt="Willie Walsh"></dt> </dl> </td> <td>  </td> </tr> </table> <div align="right"><table border="1" cellpadding="0" width="100%" background="../Fourth%20Web%20Page%20(Cont'd)/yellowground.gif"> <tr> <td width="70%" background="../Fourth Web Page (Cont'd)/yellowground.gif"><dl> <div align="center"><center> <dt><font size="4"><em><strong>Hi there, and thanks for stopping by!</strong></em></font></dt> </center></div><div align="center"><center> <dt> </dt> </center></div><div align="center"><center> <dt>This is the fifth incarnation of my Web site since I first entered the on-line world, back on July 2nd, 1999. You'll find republished items from my Irish free-lance writing days here, and new material that appears only on the Internet. The theme of the site is Irishness, in the sense of one person's view of it, that person being me, who was born here and has lived here all my life. If you're not particularly interested in this country, but like the written word, descriptive prose, nature, and an examination of the growing-up process (in my experience, a very *long* process), then I hope you'll like the pieces displayed here. </dt> </center></div><div align="center"><center> <dt> </dt> </center></div><div align="center"><center> <dt>Please feel free to browse and to <strong>bookmark this page</strong> for future enjoyment. <strong>This page alone contains a complete site listing of past and ongoing work.</strong> Any button marked "Back to the Home Page" will return you to here.</dt> </center></div><div align="center"><center> <dt> </dt> </center></div><div align="center"><center> <dt><a href="http://homepage.eircom.net/~williew/clubhous.htm"><img src="../Fourth%20Web%20Page%20(Cont'd)/BanX003.gif" alt="Click here to visit the Clubhouse Chat Room" border="0" width="468" height="60"></a></dt> </center></div><div align="center"><center> <dt>You can find me online at the <a href="http://www.geocities.com/willie_walsh/clubhous.html">Clubhouse Chat Room</a> many evenings from around 18:00 GMT and on Saturdays from 12:00 GMT until about 15:00 GMT. The room is free to join, and there's no registration process. Everyone is welcome. </dt> </center></div><div align="center"><center> <dt> </dt> </center></div><div align="center"><center> <dt>Don't forget to use your Browser's Refresh button when you next come here... I'm forever tinkering. </dt> </center></div> </dl> <p align="center">Enjoy your visit!</p> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td width="50%"><p align="center"><a href="http://graphics.evereden.com/awards.html"><img src="../Fourth%20Web%20Page%20(Cont'd)/coolsitesm.gif" alt="Your site was nominated for a Golden Apple Award. These awards are presented by Ever Eden Design, based on a variety of criteria. After reviewing your site, we'd like to present you with the following award: ""Ever Eden Design Cool Site Award" [May 02, 2001]" border="0" width="123" height="83"></a></p> </td> <td width="50%"><dl> <div align="right"> <dt><font size="4"><em><strong>Best Wishes,</strong></em></font></dt> </div><div align="right"> <dt><font size="4"><em><strong>-- Willie Walsh</strong></em></font></dt> </div> </dl> </td> </tr> </table> </td> <td width="30%"><dl> </dl> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td width="25%"><img src="../Fourth%20Web%20Page%20(Cont'd)/biobtn.gif" alt="Find out about the author by clicking on "Who's Willie?"" width="109" height="18"></td> <td width="25%"> </td> <td width="25%"> </td> <td width="25%"><a href="http://www.geocities.com/willie_walsh/believe.html"><img src="../Fourth%20Web%20Page%20(Cont'd)/believe.gif" alt="I don't know how long our family has been living with senility. It isn't something which comes on you overnight, like a head cold. In 1989-90, my mother suffered a stroke. Since then, she's deteriorated mentally bit by bit until today, in early 2001, we live an extraordinary life. " border="0" width="109" height="18"></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="25%"><a href="http://homepage.eircom.net/~williew/willie.htm"><img src="../Fourth%20Web%20Page%20(Cont'd)/whowill.gif" alt="About the author, his family, links to places of interest on the Web, many of them Irish. " border="0" width="109" height="18"></a></td> <td width="25%"> </td> <td width="25%"> </td> <td width="25%"><a href="http://www.geocities.com/willie_walsh/palm.html"><img src="../Fourth%20Web%20Page%20(Cont'd)/sunday.gif" alt="'I closed the door and locking it behind me, stepped down onto the concrete path and turned away. Silent cars and vans were parked along the road like boats pulled up on little sleepy islands above the tide, resting, nose to nose. ' [Click to see whole page]" border="0" width="109" height="18"></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><img src="../Fourth%20Web%20Page%20(Cont'd)/prose.gif" alt="Published works... Willie writes poetic, descriptive prose pieces." width="109" height="18"></td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td><img src="../Fourth%20Web%20Page%20(Cont'd)/progress.gif" alt="A longer piece, which is added to from time to time. It recalls boozing days in Dublin City in the 1980s. Lots of photos from the days and nights there. To begin, click on the "Page 1" button, below." width="109" height="18"></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="25%"><a href="http://homepage.eircom.net/~williew/brook.htm"><img src="../Fourth%20Web%20Page%20(Cont'd)/brook.gif" alt="'If someone was to ask me what constituted happiness for me as a child I would have to answer: The river!' (Click to see entire page)" border="0" width="109" height="18"></a></td> <td width="25%"> </td> <td width="25%"> </td> <td width="25%"><a href="http://homepage.eircom.net/~williew/one.htm"><img src="../Fourth%20Web%20Page%20(Cont'd)/onethree.gif" alt="'Once, a lifestyle acquired me. When I began drinking (in a hostelry not too close to home), two pints of ale was my limit, and each was hard-won enough, I thought, when, under-aged and pimpled, I swayed to the counter and made a mumbling order to a sarcastic, culchie barman...' (Click to see entire page)" border="0" width="109" height="18"></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="25%"><a href="http://homepage.eircom.net/~williew/kitchen.htm"><img src="../Fourth%20Web%20Page%20(Cont'd)/kitchen.gif" alt="'Whenever I see used pine furniture on sale, I'm always reminded of the pine table in our old, farm kitchen; its odd, squeaky castors, and drawers of cutlery and papers..' (Click to see entire page)" border="0" width="109" height="18"></a></td> <td width="25%"> </td> <td width="25%"> </td> <td width="25%"><a href="http://homepage.eircom.net/~williew/two.htm"><img src="../Fourth%20Web%20Page%20(Cont'd)/page2.gif" alt="'Bruxelles of Harry Street was my spiritual and temporal home for most of the latter part of the 1980s. Out on the pavement, short rows of motorcycles tried to huddle inconspicuously away from the traffic wardens and gardai that from time to time wandered by, ticket-books in hand...' (Click to see entire page)" border="0" width="109" height="18"></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="25%"><a href="http://homepage.eircom.net/~williew/ivy.htm"><img src="../Fourth%20Web%20Page%20(Cont'd)/ivy.gif" alt="'Wild ivy brushed the arched bridge by the village school, creeping blindly, silently, on woody limbs towards the field and thorny hedgerow..' (Click to see entire page)" border="0" width="109" height="18"></a></td> <td width="25%"> </td> <td width="25%"> </td> <td width="25%"><a href="http://homepage.eircom.net/~williew/three.htm"><img src="../Fourth%20Web%20Page%20(Cont'd)/page3.gif" alt="'The first time I entered Bruxelles' dark basement was a gloomy Autumn evening..' (Click to see entire page)" border="0" width="109" height="18"></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="25%"><a href="http://homepage.eircom.net/~williew/breeze.htm"><img src="../Fourth%20Web%20Page%20(Cont'd)/breeze.gif" alt="'It played in blue. Jetting free on wide wings it turned, spun, was active, was full. It soared: dancing; spinning in the skyscape. It slipped, skimming, rolled joyously...' (Click to see entire page)" border="0" width="109" height="18"></a></td> <td width="25%"> </td> <td width="25%"> </td> <td width="25%"><a href="http://homepage.eircom.net/~williew/four.htm"><img src="../Fourth%20Web%20Page%20(Cont'd)/page4.gif" alt="'Our first evening wore on. Those who couldn't find seats, us included, stood where best we could. The stairs became choked, and the bar staff and the bouncers cleared them...' (Click to see entire page)" border="0" width="109" height="18"></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="http://homepage.eircom.net/~williew/rain.htm"><img src="../Fourth%20Web%20Page%20(Cont'd)/rain.gif" alt="'The hush was broken only by the lowing of the cattle as mist rolled by the hedge-row gap and rushed the cobwebbed grasses in the lower pasture...' (Click to see entire page)" border="0" width="109" height="18"></a></td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="http://homepage.eircom.net/~williew/five.htm"><img src="../Fourth%20Web%20Page%20(Cont'd)/page5.gif" alt="'There's something about the smell of Dublin city on a cold evening...' (Click to see entire page)" border="0" width="109" height="18"></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="25%"><a href="http://homepage.eircom.net/~williew/summer.htm"><img src="../Fourth%20Web%20Page%20(Cont'd)/summer.gif" alt="'Exquisite freedom. At ten or eleven of the final school-room day, doors would open, releasing a flood of five- to twelve-year olds, running home on eager feet to holiday for weeks and weeks...' (Click to see entire page)" border="0" width="109" height="18"></a></td> <td width="25%"> </td> <td width="25%"> </td> <td width="25%"><a href="http://homepage.eircom.net/~williew/six.htm"><img src="../Fourth%20Web%20Page%20(Cont'd)/page6.gif" alt="'In Bruxelles' dark corners lurked strangeness and comedy: wry street vendors, complaining about profits; buskers, rich on pennies and tuppences; apprentices piling in, grubby from work or tech..' (Click to see entire page)" border="0" width="109" height="18"></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="25%"><a href="http://homepage.eircom.net/~williew/goingbac.htm"><img src="../Fourth%20Web%20Page%20(Cont'd)/back.gif" alt="'It was the same. There at the roadway a pair of granite gate-posts; the crumbling sides of the arched bridge; the stream beneath...' (Click to see entire page)" border="0" width="109" height="18"></a></td> <td width="25%"> </td> <td width="25%"> </td> <td width="25%"><a href="http://homepage.eircom.net/~williew/seven.htm"><img src="../Fourth%20Web%20Page%20(Cont'd)/page7.gif" alt="'I woke this morning from dreams about guitars. I was a player, and I played well, effortlessly in fact. I just thought, and the sounds came, like Eric Clapton does in real life...' (Click to see entire page)" border="0" width="109" height="18"></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="http://homepage.eircom.net/~williew/snow.htm"><img src="../Fourth%20Web%20Page%20(Cont'd)/snow1.gif" alt="'Grey-brown clouds darkened the horizon, bringing with them a threatening wave of chill air. Highland sheep huddled behind walls; in deep, damp hollows; by lone thorns, ancestral genes warning them of imminent snow...' (Click to see entire page)" border="0" width="109" height="18"></a></td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="http://homepage.eircom.net/~williew/eight.htm"><img src="../Fourth%20Web%20Page%20(Cont'd)/page8.gif" alt="'John introduced me to two girls one evening. After our initial first-impressions of the pub, we noticed that it was (and I presume still is) a fact that girls (and boys too) tended to travel in mismatched pairs. One would be whom we called "the good looking one"; the other was her friend...'" border="0" width="109" height="18"></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="25%"><img src="../Fourth%20Web%20Page%20(Cont'd)/unpub.gif" alt="These works are published for the first time on the Internet. " width="109" height="18"></td> <td width="25%"> </td> <td width="25%"> </td> <td width="25%"><a href="http://homepage.eircom.net/~williew/otherph.htm"><img src="../Fourth%20Web%20Page%20(Cont'd)/morephotos.gif" alt="View more Bruxelles photos here" border="0" width="109" height="18"></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="25%"><a href="http://homepage.eircom.net/~williew/pictures.htm"><img src="../Fourth%20Web%20Page%20(Cont'd)/pictures.gif" alt="'We sat recently watching people on skis; little children growing up on prairies, in towns with straight streets and wooden houses; men and boys in baseball caps; proud hunters with guns and grisly trophies; skimming across lagoons in hovercraft..' (Click to see entire page)" border="0" width="109" height="18"></a></td> <td width="25%"> </td> <td width="25%"> </td> <td width="25%"><img src="../Fourth%20Web%20Page%20(Cont'd)/messages.gif" alt="How to get in contact with Willie" width="109" height="18"></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="25%"><a href="http://homepage.eircom.net/~williew/stillday.htm"><img src="../Fourth%20Web%20Page%20(Cont'd)/still.gif" alt="'Quietness spoke to me. The stillness of the farmhouse of an autumn evening; the loudest thing the tranquil ticking of the kitchen clock. Pots simmering, filled the room with heady scents of rich, warm foods. My mother, writing letters to relations. The dog asleep; the table set, the family not yet home, but coming soon...' (Click to see entire page)" border="0" width="109" height="18"></a></td> <td width="25%"> </td> <td width="25%"> </td> <td width="25%"><a href="http://pluto.beseen.com/boardroom/v/47249"><img src="../Fourth%20Web%20Page%20(Cont'd)/board.gif" alt="The Clubhouse Bulletin Board. Leave permanent messages here." border="0" width="109" height="18"></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="25%"><a href="http://homepage.eircom.net/~williew/colours.htm"><img src="../Fourth%20Web%20Page%20(Cont'd)/colours.gif" alt="'My first encounters in the great outdoors, a tiny figure moving about in waist high, lucious grass, the smell of the nearby farmyard, the huge, silent sky, deep blue, grazed by slow, white herds of faceless sheep, shepherded by a perfect sun...' (Click to see entire page)" border="0" width="109" height="18"></a></td> <td width="25%"> </td> <td width="25%"> </td> <td width="25%"><a href="http://www.guestbookdepot.com/cgi-bin/guestbook.cgi?book_id=50573"><img src="../Fourth%20Web%20Page%20(Cont'd)/viewgb.gif" alt="Read the entries in this Web site's Guestbook. " border="0" width="109" height="18"></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="25%"><a href="http://homepage.eircom.net/~williew/sea.htm"><img src="../Fourth%20Web%20Page%20(Cont'd)/sea.gif" alt="'White peaks glaring under blue skies, sugar frosted by the Summer sun, a pert breeze plucked the topmost sand-dunes, whipping and whirling about tufts of squat salt grass...' (Click to see entire page)" border="0" width="109" height="18"></a></td> <td width="25%"> </td> <td width="25%"> </td> <td width="25%"><a href="http://www.guestbookdepot.com/cgi-bin/sign_book.cgi?book_id=50573"><img src="../Fourth%20Web%20Page%20(Cont'd)/signgb.gif" alt="Contribute a message of your own to the Guestbook." border="0" width="109" height="18"></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="25%"><a href="http://homepage.eircom.net/~williew/cmas.htm"><img src="../Fourth%20Web%20Page%20(Cont'd)/cmas.gif" alt="'On my first trip to Dublin, Christmas lights glowered over the streets of the city, strung from building to building above the hurrying crowds of shop-girls in tight-waisted tweed coats and white platform boots, their hair piled high in beehives, or ironed straight...' (Click to see entire page)" border="0" width="109" height="18"></a></td> <td width="25%"> </td> <td width="25%"> </td> <td width="25%"><a href="http://www.guestbookdepot.com" target="_blank"><img src="../Fourth%20Web%20Page%20(Cont'd)/freegb.gif" alt="Get a Guestbook for your Web site for free." border="0" width="109" height="18"></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="25%"><a href="http://homepage.eircom.net/~williew/cmas2000.htm"><img src="../Fourth%20Web%20Page%20(Cont'd)/cmas00.gif" alt="This year was tough. My mother's senility has turned angry, agitated, and days are long here. Maureen fidgets her life away in endless loops of needless questions. "What day is it?" "Have I been paid?" "Are you going to the shops tomorrow?" "Did I give you money?" " border="0" width="109" height="18"></a></td> <td width="25%"> </td> <td width="25%"> </td> <td width="25%"><a href="http://homepage.eircom.net/~williew/email.htm"><img src="../Fourth%20Web%20Page%20(Cont'd)/email.gif" alt="Use this link to send an e-mail message to Willie." border="0" width="109" height="18"></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="25%"><a href="http://www.geocities.com/willie_walsh/hares.html"><img src="../Fourth%20Web%20Page%20(Cont'd)/hares02.gif" alt="If I thought drink was expensive in Dublin in the middle 80s, then being in a new century hadn't reduced the price any. I handed a barman a £20 note in the Temple Bar Music Centre and got £9.80p change for two pints of lager and something orangy in a bottle with vodka in it. My cheaper suburban sensibilities were mildly shocked. " border="0" width="109" height="18"></a></td> <td width="25%"> </td> <td width="25%"> </td> <td width="25%"><img src="../Fourth%20Web%20Page%20(Cont'd)/chat.gif" alt="The chat room attached to this site is called The Clubhouse." width="109" height="18"></td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="http://homepage.eircom.net/~williew/clubhous.htm"><img src="../Fourth%20Web%20Page%20(Cont'd)/club.gif" alt="Click on this button to visit the Clubhouse Chat Room." border="0" width="109" height="18"></a></td> </tr> </table> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td width="100%">  </td> </tr> <tr> <td><p align="center"><table border='0' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0'><tr><td align='center'><a href='http://hc2.humanclick.com/hc/59351479/?cmd=file&file=visitorWantsToChat&site=59351479&byhref=1' target='chat59351479' onClick="window.open('http://hc2.humanclick.com/hc/59351479/?cmd=file&file=visitorWantsToChat&site=59351479','chat59351479','width=419,height=320');return false;"><img src='http://hc2.humanclick.com/hc/59351479/?cmd=repstate&site=59351479&category=en;fun;3&ver=1' name='hcIcon' width=89 height=44 border=0></a></td></tr><tr><td align='center'><a href='http://hc2.humanclick.com/hc/59351479/?cmd=PoweredByPage&site=59351479' target='_top'><img src='http://hc2.humanclick.com/hc/59351479/?cmd=hccredit&site=59351479' width=106 height=35 border=0></a></td></tr></table></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><p align="center"><font size="2"><strong>Depending on Willie's online status, you can either email him, or call him into one-to-one chat, by using the button, above.</strong></font></p> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" width="100%"> <tr> <td width="100%"><p><img src="sitemap.gif" width="727" height="685" align="left" border="0" usemap="#sitemap"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" color="#000000"></p> <map name="sitemap"><area shape="rect" coords="373,90,443,128" href="photos00.htm" alt="More late 60s early 70s family photos"> <area shape="rect" coords="95,158,164,196" href="http://www.camvista.com/ireland/dublin/liffey.php3" alt="View Dublin City by live Webcam"> <area shape="rect" coords="188,156,257,193" href="http://www.unison.ie" alt="Irish news delivered by the Independent Group and its partners"> <area shape="rect" coords="467,93,536,131" href="eva.htm" alt="Willie's sister, Eva Lorraine Walsh"> <area shape="rect" coords="374,220,442,257" href="sweeney.htm" alt="Willie's mother's people, the Sweeneys of Knocklyon"> <area shape="rect" coords="374,156,443,193" href="tnmfam.htm" alt="Willie's father & mother, Tom & Maureen Walsh"> <area shape="rect" coords="467,158,537,196" href="joan.htm" alt="Willie's sister, Joan Walsh"> <area shape="rect" coords="468,223,536,261" href="david.htm" alt="Willie's brother, David Walsh"> <area shape="rect" coords="561,240,630,276" href="http://www.ireland.travel.ie/home/index.asp" alt="Bord Fáilte, the Irish Tourist Board"> <area shape="rect" coords=282,217,350,255" href="walfam.htm" alt="Willie's father's people, the Walsh family of Rockbrook"> <area shape="poly" coords="94,220,254,220,281,191,281,158,350,158,350,196,285,196,257,226,257,255,284,282,350,283,350,320,95,320,94,220" href="willie.htm" alt="A little about Ireland; 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