Never had a real "nick-name" but school friends called me (Shamey Bug), taken from the Irish " Seamus Beag" - Wee Jimmy. very few of them are still alive so I guess the name died with the last of them.

Nicknames of people I knew are

Ruadh Convery - never knew his real first name. Liberace(John) O'Reilly - he took piano lessons Gas Meter(Peter) McGuinness Blocker McAllister don't know his first name either Diddle(Tommy) Baxter Sambo (Jimmy) Boyle

The strangest nickname I know of was one "Cork McGonigal". he and 2 of his friends were in a boat fishing many years ago, the boat was swamped by a lerge wave, his two friends could swim but both were drowned. He could not swim but was somehow washed ashore, thus he was known locally for the rest of his life as " The Cork".