Archive (5 life histories found)
'In Rome, we stayed in a convent and slept in dormitories and raided the nuns' kitchen at night.'
Growing up I didn't have a favourite toy apart from some games like _�� snakes _��n' ladders or ludo'. Neither did I have a pet! My most significant relationships and memories of my childhood were being a member of a choir, a junior one…
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'The strange thing was that my mother wouldn't allow a pet in the house. '
There was always a dog in my Granny Carlin's house and of course lots of animals in Granny McGovern's in the country. The strange thing was that my mother wouldn't allow a pet in the house.
Tags: Animals, grandparents, Pets
'I was born and brought up in a townland known as Lisnisk'
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…
'Although we were three sisters and two brothers in my family, I was my father's pet and getting my own way in quite a lot of things and my brothers and sisters used to call it favouritism'
Although we were three sisters and two brothers in my family, I was my father's pet and getting my own way in quite a lot of things and my brothers and sisters used to call it a favouratism. My father was a judge and it was a transferable job in…
'They never stop barking and are real pests. But we love them both'
After the death of my husband we got a little white poodle dog called Candy. Candy was a Christmas present for Pamela. The dog lived for 17 years and was a great companion to us both. After Candy died we got a black poodle called Kizzy she lived for…