The Irish - Air Race 100

Mike Mahon Aer Lingus F/O, Sqd Ldr Terry Nash RAF, John Murray Journalist Belfast telegraph ...more

Scouts Malvern Trophy

Scouts, Malvern Trophy, Larch Hill ...more

Here I am in the Sun

Photograph of Theresa Byrne, showing off her dress in the sun ...more

The Bicycle

A photo of Maisie McNailly with her brother and sister outside their home playing with a bicycle. ...more

Babhe, my son, six months old

Dolly's son Babhe aged 6 months ...more

My First Birthday Card

This is a copy of a first birthday card received by Avril Patterson. ...more

A letter home from boarding school

This is a letter sent by Billy Gallagher to his parents while he was in Boarding school in Castleknock. The letter describes life in boarding school. ...more

The Cloughmills McGuckians July 1948

In this picture are Mary Dynan's cousins, and siblings. But Mary is not there - one of the big disappointments of her young life. She was in Gweedore at the Gaeltacht when an American friend… ...more

Myself with my husband and sister

Dolly pictured with her husband and her sister ...more

Mary with Father

This is a picture of Mary Dynan with her father. ...more

About

The Life Histories Archive is an open-access resource for the study of narrative life experiences. It is part of a research project in the School of Linguistic, Language and Communication Sciences and the School of Histories and Humanities, Trinity College Dublin, which is funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS). The Life Histories Archive project has thematically structured a collection of stories, taken from 24 autobiographies, of a sample of women and men from Dublin and Belfast.
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