Dick Duffy

Man about Letterkenny. Dick was the son of Sarah Ferry and John Duffy.

I never met a person in Donegal that didn't know Dick Duffy. He had the driest wit; whenever I was with him, I'd find myself laughing at what he said 20 minutes earlier, and not at all catching the present joke. I'd finally catch and start laughing at something he said long after he'd be gone.

He had small-motor repair shop in a corrugated tin garage at the edge of Letterkenny, next to the bus station where a shopping mall is nowadays.. It was said he was a great mechanic - if you could keep him at bench. But he had people to see up the town, and the shop often had no Dick in it.

Dick Duffy is on the right in this picture at the farm, Falcarragh, 1958. From left, Seamus Clarke, John Duffy (Dick's father), Joe Ferry, Hughie Ferry, then Dick. The occasion was my dad's return home after almost 29 years away in America. . JJF took the photo.

 

He came to the states once, in the late 70's early 80's . This is a picture of him, then, with his cousin, Mary Ferry, in Wildwood, NJ.