Archive (28 life histories found)

Tom with his wife,children,and his family

I've always loved driving. I started hen I was 18 and got my licence when I was 19. I used to drive my sister's mini clubman before I got a car of my own to travel to work in. My first car was a wee second hand Datsun 100A. I drove it for a few…

On 4th September, 1991 my mother died very suddenly even though she had been ill from the Springtime. Ironically, that was on the same date on which my father died fifteen years earlier in 1976.We moved to Fairgreen Park in Keady the next year when…

I recall one bright summer evening when I was about thirteen, my mother, sister Eilish and myself watching my brother Aidan who was about seventeen at the time heading off to a Carnival about three miles up the road to hear Roy Orbison. I wouldn't…

I don't think I had ever met a child whose mother was dead until after 1964 when a family of seven children and their father came to live in the farm across the road from us. Tommy Loughran was a hard working man whose young wife had died about a…

A picture of Rosemary McCloskey's younger sisters Margaret, Ann and Jacqueline

A picture of Rosemary McCloskey's younger sister Monica

A picture of Rosemary McCloskey with her younger sister Cecilia taken when Rosemary was about 5 years of age

A photo of Ita McClelland with her siblings.

A photo of Ita McClelland on the beach with her sister, mother, and other relations.