We are at 196A Cowbridge Road East, Canton, Cardiff CF5 1GX.
We are open Tuesday to Saturday between 10.00 and 6.00.
Tel: (029) 20255540.
E-mail us
(richandrare1@netscape.net).
Please, when emailing, do remember to include your phone number – it makes getting back to you so
much easier!
We also offer a wide range of greeting cards, light jewelry, ornaments,
gifts from Ireland, Wales etc. for festivals, birthdays and other occasions such asa Christmas and St. Patrick–s Day.
Finally, you may wish to know that the words ’Rich and Rare’ come from a classic Irish poem by Thomas Moore.
Thank you for your visit!
E-mail us
(Richandrare1@netscape.net).
Please, when emailing, do remember to include your phone number – it makes getting back to you so
much easier!
The above is just an introduction to Rich and Rare’s own professionally designed site.
Photo: At Rich and Rare on St. Patrick’s Day 2001.
A First Communion in Wales.
An old Irish hawker makes his First Communion near the closing of his days.
Les Communiantes.
‘The Communicants’: a poem by Émile Nelligan: 1879 – 1941 (in French with an English translation).
Martha Blake
A vivid description by Austin Clarke (1896 – 1974) of a woman receiving Holy Communion in 1950s Dublin.
A Hymn for Holy Communion
This simple but beautiful hymn or chant, sung in English by an unidentified choir in the USA, is from the Orthodox Christian tradition.
Going to Holy Communion old style
At a traditional Latin Mass in Paris. The priest speaks and sings in Latin but the choir sings in French!
L’amour d’une Mère
‘The Love of a Mother’, is a short and, for me at least, a surprising poem by the novelist, Victor Hugo, in which the love of a mother for
her children seems to be compared with God’s love for those who receive Holy Communion at Mass.
I found it on a memorial card in a friend’s old flat in Spain and wrote it down on an envelope while tea was being prepared...
In French with a translation into English.
