There’s a ghost who came out this morning – actually she comes out every St. Patrick’s day – just down the street from my office. But I can’t find a site with the story. But there is a St Patrick’s day ghost in Montreal, specifically in Griffintown, an old Irish area of the city that no longer really exists. Thousands of Irish immigrants died in the 1840s-50s in Grosse Ile and in Pointe St. Charles, just over the bridge from where I’m sitting.
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Denis Delaney says
Mary Gallagher, the headless ghost of Griffintown, because of her scarlet past is allowed only one night every seven years to return to Griffintown to search for her head. She had her head and her right hand cut off on June 26, 1879.We, ex-Griffintowners meet every 7 years behind the Benedict Labre House on Young St. and wait for Mary to appear. We will be there again on the 26th of June 2005. I was fortunate enough to meet Mary when I was four and a half years old in March 0f 1937 on the corner of Elenor and Ottawa Streets. We met again at the top of Gallery Square above St. Ann’s church on the canal bank on a bitter January night in 1956 when I went there to die. The last time was in 1998 after everyone had left after the Mary Gallagher evening at 10 PM. Mary and I spent the night together searching for her head. Did we find it? You’ll have to wait until my manuscript is in book form to find out. Denis Delaney ddelaney1@sympatico.ca