Collins J.P, Publican, Athea…. in Hospital in Cork1964 – Visit from his Athea friends….Left – Liam Shine, Dirreen. John O’Connell, Athea. Jimmy (JP) Collins, Athea. Dan T Liston, Dirreen, Jimeen Carroll, Blaine. Photo courtesy of the late Mary Collins.

Collins Mary nee Long...Letter on Friday Sept 11th, 1987 to George Langan.

Letter transcribed as follows…….

Athea,

Fri Sept 11th

Dear Georgie,

Surprised to hear from me, but I couldn’t resist phoning Delia ) mother & ask for your address to thank you for your songs ‘The Top of Feury’s Hill’. I think it is the best ever heard, it has given me an awful lot of pleasure to read it, write it down & listen to the tape. I’m not far removed, only in the village, but it means so much to me, especially the mention of mother & father and all the lovely neighbours we had, R.I.P. I can’t thank you enough and I must send a copy to my brother Mike in Texas, he’ll enjoy it also. ‘The Mouth of the Shannon’ is also smashing and ‘The Bard of Glenbawn’, very good. Keep up the good work, there was a lot of verse and song long ago but it was dying out with progress but I do appreciate your lovely talent. George enjoy your keyboard, it sounds lovely, they are very nice, wish I could play one, or play something, the music missed me.

Too bad, Martin Mulvihill passed away so early, we miss him R.I.P.

Our best wishes to Mrs. Langan and yourself.

God Bless,

Mary Collins (Long) & J.P.

Collins nee LongMary, Athea village….reply to my questionnaire of Feb 17th, 1997..

Collins Mary, Athea…letter on Feb 22nd, 2018 to George Langan…