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AA History: Sackvilel M from Dublin Ireland got sober in 1947

Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA

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Mental Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 6 December 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Sackvilel M from Dublin Ireland got sober in 1947 and passed away 1979. He was the author of the story in the big book called "The Career Officer". At the time of this speak held in Huston Texas at an unknown time he was sober just over 9 years. He tells his own story and the story of how AA started in Ireland, he was its 6th member. Good quality for an early recording. Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate We have added a page of meetings that have moved online https://sobercast.com/online-meetings Sober Cast has 1300+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Soebokast, where we provide a speaker meetings and workshops in

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podcast format.

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We hope you enjoy the podcast.

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Have a great day.

0:24.7

Good morning everybody.

0:29.2

I apologize first of all because I haven't got the shape of Lillian Roth.

0:35.0

I understand she was a very great attraction here.

0:38.0

It's a very great pleasure to me indeed to be in Houston and to learn how to pronounce the name of your town I always thought

0:45.2

to Houston and I hope that before I go away I'll be given a little time to have a look at it

0:50.9

because up to now I haven't seen anything at all except some backways.

0:57.3

It's also a very great privilege of course to be asked to speak at anybody's at anybody else's group.

1:04.0

At home they don't allow me to speak very often.

1:07.0

I'm afraid while I've been over in America, I've been rather overdoing it the other way.

1:11.0

I wasn't expecting to see so many people here on a Sunday morning.

1:16.0

It made me think of the Duke of Wellington. You know he was one of a long line of

1:20.7

Irish generals who have been winning the battles for England right through history.

1:25.8

And he was fighting the French out in Spain about a hundred years ago.

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They sent him out a regiment of very raw recruits, and he took one look at them and then he said

1:35.3

well gentlemen I don't know what effect you're going to have upon the enemy but by

1:39.7

God you frightened me and that's what I'm feeling like just at the moment.

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