Archive (27 life histories found)

Some of the games we played were 'I packed my bag to go to Paris and in it put'The first person started selected an item, the next had to repeat what the first person said and add another item and so on. Anyone missing an item had to drop out of…

Childhood memories of oranges and fruit arriving after the war. People (young) dying of T.B. Fields, picking mushrooms, blackberries and playing games. Skipping, jackstones, buttons, rounders. Everything impromptu as there was no organising of…

I would have stayed on at school, but I had to leave even with a scholarship. As one of ten children we had to work to get money.But the memories of childhood are good. We lived in an area surrounded by fields as far as the eye could see. We…

I remember as a boy some other boys in The Boys Brigade. They wore little pillbox hats and navy like jerseys with matching socks. I couldn't join because my parents couldn't afford to buy me a uniform. I also remember the little girls going to…

My only son Thomas was born on New Year's day in Gardner Robbs Maternity unit of the City Hospital in Belfast. My wife wanted a wee girl and was disappointed when presented with a little boy. When he was about 2 years of age Hannah dressed him in…

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…

A picture of Mary Dynan with her mother.

This is a picture of Mary Dynan with her father.

Article about Hugh Duncan's son Thomas, who found a bag of jewellery worth £50 whilst fishing in the Coyle River

A photo of the exterior of Peter's families' flat in Klostertal.