Archive (11 life histories found)

My father and his brothers had purchased the Deerpark Farm from Lord Massareeue - it must have been around 1939 - and we children used to love going to Antrim and roaming free there. Unfortunately I have one unhappy memory among all the happy…

I remember the day war was declared in September 1939. It was on a Sunday at 11 a.m. There had been very heavy rain causing the river Bann banks to overflow. The flood was rising in one of my father's fields. My father tried to get as much help as…

I was born and brought up in a townland then known as Lisnisk 2 £miles from Rathfriland, 10 miles from Banbridge South Down. I had two brothers. One older and one younger and a sister 5 years younger. When I was young my father was ill with…

The farmland in Corragh is not great and there is a lot of bogland, so turf cutting and saving was a big part of the activity during the summer. In the middle of one piece of bogland was a raised brilliant green field with a single hawthorn tree in…

My Mother's Mother came from Co. Wicklow and her brother had the small family farm so that each year, when we were old enough we were packed off to the country for the summer holidays. Her brother, Tom Quinn was married to Judy Burke and they were…

Clondaliever, the townsland where I was born in 1941, is in north Westmeath. It is the place where the three parishes of Collinstown, Taughmon and Delvin meet. As most facilities in rural Ireland were to be found at the centre of a parish, the…

A photo of Maisie McNailly as a child with her older brother.

A picture of a dray like the one that Harry Browne remembered from his childhood holidays to the family farm in Wicklow

A picture of a butter churn like the one that Harry Browne remembered from his childhood holidays to the family farm in Wicklow

This is an image of Avril Patterson's cockeral during the snow.