Archive (138 life histories found)

A family photo taken on Billy Gallagher's parents' wedding day

A year later we bought 16 Rowanbyrn in Blackrock for £9,800. We got the maximum mortgage of £7,000 (you were only allowed 70% of purchase price and also the husband's salary was only considered in calculating what repayments would be possible). At…

Family life started on Bloody Monday 1972 (day after Bloody Sunday) at 39 Mount Merrion Avenue. We had rented an unfurnished apartment on the top floor of this very cold and draughty house. It was carpeted (cheaply) and an open fire fireplace. The…

Pamela,Stephen and the family moved from Priory Park to Lisburn to live in 1999. After my friend Eric's death in 2002 I developed a painful knee and decided after 12 years to sell my home in Priory Park and move in to live with my daughter and the…

In 1990 the opportunity arose for me to buy a small semi-detached house in Priory Park Finaghy. My daughter and her husband and the family lived in Priory Park,therefore I sold the house in Edinburgh Street and moved to Finaghy.I continued my work…

These are cards Mary Dynan made while in the Novitiate. She sent them home for Christmas 1953 and for her younger brother Alan's birthday.

An article which appeared in the Leitrim Guardian in 2011 which reflects upon a trip the author made in 1949 to Cloughmills, the town where Mary Dynan was born and reared. Mentioned in the article are Mary's family and in particular her father Brian…

This article was written around 1942 about Cloughmills and my father and his brothers: Sandy, Brian, Patsy, Gerald McGuckian.

An image tracing Peter's family tree.

Very early passport notably for the entire family