Mr Brian
Something old, something new
Category: Burke
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My grandfather's charity was associated with him and his efforts; but, the idea for what would eventually be called ProDeo was actually my grandmother's. She suggested that they contact Catholic schools across the country and have them sell Christmas cards as fundraisers with all profits being donated to Catholic missionaries around the world. As incentive…
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My Irish grandfather on my mother's side was a great influence on me. He was about five and a half feet tall, very boisterous and strong with a thick shock of white hair. He saved me when I left university in 1980 and moved to New York. He lived with my grandmother on Fieldston Road…
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For 40 years she sat by the kitchen window looking out onto Fieldston Road and disparaged everybody that passed by. Although she never left the house, she knew all the gossip and she would impart little quips about their looks, or behavior, or their preccadilloes in a dry Irish brogue. She was one of the…
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My Irish grandfather, Michael Burke, was the oldest of ten children and an immigrant from Lenamore, County Mayo. My earliest memories of him was of this obnoxiously loud, prickly faced, crazy man that would grab me and rub his stubbled face against mine until the grownups yelled at him to stop. It was agonizing but…
