Archive (27 life histories found)

An event on 8th October 1946 changed life irrevocably for some folk. Some may say it was for the better, but no doubt there are a few, who might wish the change had not happened. This world would never be the same again. I was born in 50 Rose vale…

My grandfather built the house at Ballyards, Armagh where I lived as a child. He and my grandmother along with their two children, my father Patrick (Paddy) and my Aunt Mary had returned from Scotland where they had lived since after their marriage…

I was born Ita Murphy on 12th of October, 1956, in Carleton Maternity House Portadown, Co. Armagh. My parents were Patrick Murphy, from Ballyards, an Insurance Agent and Sheila Kelly, from Lislea, Ballyards, a Linen factory worker in the nearby…

Up to my thirteenth year we lived in the city (Hamburg) in an apartment block. A seven room apartment,including one for the maid,bathroom and a separate toilet,kitchen,and walk in larder. There were two balconies,one at the front,the other at the…