My Own Place , Michael O`Callaghan 1975 " PART 1 " of 2 County Roscommon

By kind permission from Michael daughter Christine , a wonderful film .
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From Tony Conboy
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Miceál O'Callaghan (1923-1986)
Miceál was a representative of time and place. Occasionally a person comes to represent his own area or county and is known by many within that county and many more beyond it. For the most part people are happy that this is so and feel a confidence that when represented by this individual they are well represented. For many years this was the case with Miceál O'Callaghan. He epitomised Roscommon in varying ways and at different levels. I think that it can be confidently claimed that there was no one else who knew his own County, its townlands, geography, history, highways and byeways, sociology and people as well as he did. This, also, in a very real way, extended to the Roscommon Diaspora within Ireland and across the seas. Long before I came to Boyle in 1972 I was aware of Miceál. There were plenty of reasons for this, the main ones being his involvement with the G.A.A. and the Roscommon Herald
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