{"id":2356,"date":"2015-10-12T20:57:20","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T20:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=2356"},"modified":"2015-10-12T21:04:01","modified_gmt":"2015-10-12T21:04:01","slug":"the-old-bond-store-ghost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/the-old-bond-store-ghost\/","title":{"rendered":"The Old Bond Store Ghost"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"A\"\u00a0ghost tale from Tullamore retold in verse, first told by Walter Burke, former leasee of the bar in the Tullamore Dew Heritage Centre. There are many tales of tragic deaths\u00a0in the building when it was a\u00a0distillery\u00a0and a bottling plant, and we can be sure with alcohol added and\u00a0tales being exchanged at 3:00 in the morning no details were left out if none added in!<\/em><\/p>\n

\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

Washing the dirty glasses, all the customers were gone
\nFinishing up for the night\u2014no, there is still one
\nElderly gentleman, who at the counter he sit
\nNo Gardai checking after hours, we\u2019ll let him stay a bit.
\nNo harm he\u2019s doing , the barman employs
\nHimself to cleaning and tidying, as the old man enjoys
\nThe fruits of a lifes hardship, a last drink at the bar
\nThe barman doesn’t know him, if he\u2019s from near or far
\nAll doors locked: checked, at the bar the drinker dozes
\nHis checks complete, the windows the barman closes
\nDrunkard wakes and wraps the counter, and asks for one last drink
\n\u201cI\u2019ll be with you in a minute\u201d: one wont hurt the barman does think.
\nAnd as he turns with the glasses, his very soul chills
\nHe shakes in his standing, the drink nearly falls & spills
\nFor sure as he was standing, sure as solid was the floor
\nThe old man who ordered the drink was on his stool no more!
\nThere was no footsteps no exit, no possible way out
\nThere was no-one to be found, the barman looked about
\nOf apparition from the spirit world, he\u2019d be as skeptical as most
\nBut that night, the barman had the sight of the Old Bond Store Ghost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0ghost tale from Tullamore retold in verse, first told by Walter Burke, former leasee of the bar in the Tullamore Dew Heritage Centre. There are many tales of tragic deaths\u00a0in the building when it was a\u00a0distillery\u00a0and a bottling plant, and we can be sure with alcohol added and\u00a0tales being exchanged …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2479,54,169,315],"tags":[2482,1115,78,2484,2485,867,918,2486,2481,801,2358,2483,2480],"class_list":["post-2356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ghost-story","category-ireland","category-myths-and-tales","category-tullamore","tag-distillery","tag-ghost","tag-ghost-story","tag-haunted-pub","tag-haunting","tag-headless-horseman","tag-offaly","tag-offaly-scary-story","tag-spectre","tag-spirit","tag-tullamore","tag-tullamore-dew","tag-tullamore-ghost-story","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-C0","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":383,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/busy-september-for-tullamore-rhymers\/","url_meta":{"origin":2356,"position":0},"title":"Busy September for Tullamore Rhymers","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"28th August 2014","format":"status","excerpt":"Its shaping up to be a busy Septemnber in 2014 for the Tullamore Rhymers Club, with Scene of the Rhyme on tonight, the Offaly Culture Night launch tomorrow at 3pm, the Camillus Boland Fundraiser Night after that at 8pm or so, and then a busy few weeks of which the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blog"","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4247,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/remembering-a-working-man\/","url_meta":{"origin":2356,"position":1},"title":"Remembering a Working Man – Vincent Wynter RIP","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"3rd January 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"The love of the literature of the people, The politics of the worker to be what he can The history he was to become a part of The person, the passions of a working man. 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