Santa letters from 1929 discovered in chimney

SECRET correspondence between two Limerick children and Santa has been discovered in a chimney — 78 years on and long after they had passed away.

Santa letters from 1929 discovered in chimney

Evidence of the efforts to contact Santa made by John Meany who was aged seven in 1929 and his sister Patricia, aged 11, have been discovered in letters they wrote and placed in the chimney of their home at Swansons Terrace, off O’Connell Avenue in Limerick on Christmas Eve. The letters were dated Christmas Eve 1929.

John and Patricia were two of the seven children of John and Anne Meany who were teachers at the nearby Model School.

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