{"id":9514,"date":"2023-09-28T20:31:17","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T20:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.webhostlabs.net\/synergy\/?p=9514"},"modified":"2023-09-28T20:31:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T20:31:17","slug":"happy-99th-birthday-to-mai-tallent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.webhostlabs.net\/synergy\/2023\/09\/28\/happy-99th-birthday-to-mai-tallent\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 99th Birthday to Mai Tallent"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Happy 99th Birthday to Mai Tallent<\/h1>\n

99 years of achievement<\/h1>\n
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\"Mai<\/p>\n

Mai Tallent on her 99th Birthday with her daughter Ben<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

I\u2019d like to wish a really Happy Birthday to my Aunt, Mai Tallent.\u00a0 Mai is in hospital in Kilkenny and is doing well.\u00a0 She has had a very full life over the past 99 years.<\/p>\n

Mai was born Mai Gorey from Sheestown in County Kilkenny.\u00a0 She trained as a butter maker, spent two years in Ramsgate and then returned to Bennetsbridge Creamery.\u00a0 She married, \u201cthe Squire\u201d of Sheestown, Jack Tallent, my uncle (my father\u2019s older brother).\u00a0 Jack was one of 15 kids, a large family by any reckoning.\u00a0 She received many visitors yesterday and loads of cards and well wishes.<\/p>\n

She had one son, Toby and three daughters, Lucy, Mary and Ben and now has five great-grandchildren.\u00a0 Toby died in 1989, aged 42, of lung cancer.\u00a0 He didn\u2019t drink or smoke and was a very fit farmer. I remember seeing him in Peamont hospital in Dublin and Kilkenny.\u00a0 Toby was the closest I had to a brother.\u00a0\u00a0Here is an article I wrote two years ago<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Mai was born after the Easter Rising in Ireland in 1916.\u00a0 She lived through a century that had the bloodiest and costliest warfare in human history. Two world wars, two Russian revolutions \u2013 the second one created the world\u2019s first communist country and Czar Nicholas II and His Family were Killed, proclamation of the Irish Free State after the Irish war of Independence, Turkish war of Independence, Polish-Soviet war, Sino-Japanese war, second Italo-Ethiopian war, Spanish Civil war, Chinese civil wars, Cold war, Greek Civil war, three IndoChina wars, Khamer Issarak war, Israeli war of Independence, Malayan war, Korean war, Algerian war of independence, Suez war, Sino-Indian war, two Kashmir wars, 6-day war, Warsaw pact, Yom Kippur war, Ogaden war, China-Vietnam war, Thai-Laotian war, Afghan Civil war, Iranian hostage crisis, Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, Iran-Iraq War, Falklands War, Israeli Invasion and Occupation of Southern Lebanon, Invasion of Grenada, Gulf War, three Balkan Wars, two Chechen Wars andCongo War.<\/p>\n

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\"Mai<\/p>\n

Mai Tallent on her 90th Birthday with some of her family<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

She oversaw many inventions that included the light bulb, popup toaster, traffic lights, television, penicillin, bubble gum, electric shaver, zoom lens, parking meters, canned beer, jet engines, ballpoint pens, helicopter, aerosols, computers, internet, kidney dialysis machine, microwaves, Velcro, credit cards, super glue, Teflon, hovercraft, pacemaker, calculator, ATM, post-it notes, mobile phones, electric car, youtube, google, etc.<\/p>\n

Mai was there when women were granted the right to vote in USA, when Pluto was discovered and now when Pluto was visited, when the \u2018war of the worlds\u2019 caused panic, when the \u2018peanuts\u2019 cartoon strip started, when James Bond became the best known secret agent, when Rod Stewart played to 3.5 million people at Copacabana Beach, when JFK, Indira Ghandi, Martin Luther King and John Lennon were killed, when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, when the Berlin Wall was torn down, etc.<\/p>\n

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\"Mai<\/p>\n

Mai & Lucy Tallent on the occasion of Mai’s 90th birthday<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

She saw the world survive into the 21st<\/sup>\u00a0century after the Y2K bug which was supposed to cripple the entire world at 12.01am on 1\/1\/2000 never happened.\u00a0 Other things that never happened were the return of Jesus Christ, apocalyptic disasters and other things.<\/p>\n

She saw the average lifespan extend from 50 years in 1916 to late 80\u2019s in this century and she has well and truly broken that record by reaching 99.\u00a0 I hope she reaches 100 so that she can get her cheque from President Higgins of \u20ac2540 and a congratulatory letter.\u00a0 On her 101st<\/sup>\u00a0and every subsequent birthday, Mai will receive a special commemorative coin in a presentation box, along with a congratulatory letter signed by the President. A new coin is designed for each year.<\/p>\n

Happy Birthday Mai and I hope you get loads of commemorative coins.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t[\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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