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Éamon de Buitléar

Irish filmmaker and naturalist

Jun 25, 2026

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I
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did and I kept guinea pigs, bred guinea pigs and showed guinea pigs.
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I remember being at school and a few of us got together and formed a club and we called it the RMBG club, the rabbit mouse.
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Rabbit mouse and guinea pig.
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And then there was the foreign feather, which was, if you remember, old man McGannity, who lived on the Fulton Road.
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And he was a great inspiration to me because he had, I thought it was only fantastic, he had aviaries of birds and then he had guinea pigs and he had rabbits and...
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And this competition, or yes, it was a competition, the show, in fact, it was called the Fur and Feather Show.

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