{"id":8276,"date":"2013-03-22T14:42:33","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T14:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=8276"},"modified":"2013-03-22T14:42:33","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T14:42:33","slug":"return-to-the-pine-trees-2-the-ghosts-of-christmas-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=8276","title":{"rendered":"Return to the Pine Trees &#8211; 2.The Ghosts of Christmas Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/byjuZE4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8272\" alt=\"Return to the Pine Trees\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/byjuZE4.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Return to the Pine Trees<\/strong>\u00a0is a selection of 6 short stories about growing up in the North Dublin areas of Turnapin Lane, Clonshaugh, Coolock Lane and Santry in the late 1960s and early 1970s by Dublin born Gerry Cooley.<\/p>\n<p>These stories capture a happy, innocent childhood\u00a0\u00a0and they bring to life a time in these areas on the outskirts of Dublin City before they all changed forever.<\/p>\n<p>This series is a follow on to 2011\u2032s Turn at the Pine Trees and the stories are taken from the book of the same name available in all Northside book stores and to rent from your local library.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.The Ghosts of Christmas Past<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Very Dublin story rural or urban this one. Gerry talks about his experiences around Christmas time. This was the most difficult one for him to revisit and bring to Radio as his mother May, who is the central character, passed away early in 2012. An 11 year old Gerry brings us into O&#8217;Connell Street for the Christmas &#8220;Safari&#8221; in the company of his Mother and five siblings. The Christmas &#8220;Rig-out&#8221; was the goal, with all the atmosphere of a bustling Dublin in the background. The Dublin Airport brass band provide the music.<\/p>\n<p>This series is made with the support of the Broadcasting Authority of\u00a0Ireland&#8217;s\u00a0Sound and Vision scheme.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3095\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/www.neararchive.org\/upload\/TheGhostsofChristmasPast.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('3095','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/www.neararchive.org\/upload\/TheGhostsofChristmasPast.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/www.neararchive.org\/upload\/TheGhostsofChristmasPast.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=8276-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/www.neararchive.org\/upload\/TheGhostsofChristmasPast.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"TheGhostsofChristmasPast.mp3\">Download<\/a> (0.0KB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Return to the Pine Trees\u00a0is a selection of 6 short stories about growing up in the North Dublin areas of Turnapin Lane, Clonshaugh, Coolock Lane and Santry in the late 1960s and early 1970s by Dublin born Gerry Cooley. These stories capture a happy, innocent childhood\u00a0\u00a0and they bring to life a time in these areas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3096\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/www.neararchive.org\/upload\/TheGhostsofChristmasPast.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('3096','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/www.neararchive.org\/upload\/TheGhostsofChristmasPast.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/www.neararchive.org\/upload\/TheGhostsofChristmasPast.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=8276-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/www.neararchive.org\/upload\/TheGhostsofChristmasPast.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"TheGhostsofChristmasPast.mp3\">Download<\/a> (0.0KB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,56],"tags":[1012,1376,1445,1475,1477,1891,2603,2884,2886,3130],"class_list":["post-8276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-documentaries","category-return-to-the-pine-trees","tag-dublin-history","tag-gerry-cooley","tag-haritage","tag-history","tag-history-of-santry","tag-local","tag-return-to-the-pine-trees","tag-storybook","tag-storytelling","tag-turn-at-the-pine-trees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}