I started with this username because I was asked for a username and the one that sprang to mind immediately was Arkla. My real name is Arthur but any members of the travelling community who had anything to do with me couldn’t get their tongues around Arthur and called me Arkla.
I know nothing at all about blogging. Maybe someone out there in the ether will find this and mark my card. If you read my profile you will know that I am approaching ancient but my brain still seems to be working.
What I really want to do is devote this blog to is the memory of all those wonderful people I knew in my family and my hometown of Bunclody, Co. Wexford and also in Hollyfort (where my father came from) and Myshall in Co. Carlow where I taught school for many years and became involved with some fantastic people through the G.A.A. and the Drama School.
I would like to call this blog ‘The Flowers are all Dead’ so expect a lot of remeniscenses about people who are pushing up the daisies
Tags: Bunclody, Carlow, Hollyfort, Myshall, travellers, Wexford
