A Blast From the past making history

So yesterday a man came to give us a talk on the history of Celbridge our home town. Little did i know it was Mr.Doohan !! my old primary school principle giving the talk !! when i walked into the library my face lit up as he was the perfect for the job as he has great passion for the history of our town.  I Remember when we were in 6th class and he used to bring us on cycling tours of the village and the legendary castle town house.
Anyway as we sat down and he begun i learned many many Fascinating things about our home town. Did you know Arthur Guinness the man who invented Guinness was born in celbridge ? amazing i know ! and the man himself who named new york, new york was from celbridge. i never knew how so many great people and great things came from celbridge and there are so many more other facts about the fammine. I'm so proud to be from celbridge <3
 the book Mr.doohan wrote about  our great town.