Archive (58 life histories found)

The wedding took place on Wednesday, September 14th, 1966 at 11.30 a.m. in Adam and Eve's Church, followed by a reception in the Clare Manor Hotel, which was totally destroyed by fire years later and is now no more. Back then, weddings were…

Practically all details of our wedding is overleaf, but as it only tells what the bride wore, I can reveal that I wore a dark dress suit, light grey tie, a carnation in my buttonhole and my shoes well polished.It was a good form for the weather was…

Women are usually better at answering these questions than men, but I do remember a lot of the wedding day.At my mother's insistence, all the men were in morning suits, top hats, tails, gloves - the whole works. Although Joan and I resisted, we…

I met my husband, Muredach, when I got a job at Down Connor Catholic Family Welfare in 1969. The Co - ordinating Committee for Relief (of people driven out of their homes) met in that office on the Falls Road. Muredach was secretary of that…

We had a huge party for our 25th wedding anniversary in 1991. We hired a marquee which was left over from the visit of Pope John Paul 11 to Ireland in 1979. We continued the marquee motif forward into the invitations which we made to look like an ad…

On the 14th September 1966 Sheila and I married in Mullaghea Church outside Kells Co Meath. The church is a very small one outside Kells by about two and a half miles and the entrance is on a country lane much frequented by farmers herding their…

Shortly after returning from Kenya I met Monica. She introduced me to a new circle of friends and a range of new interests. Travelling in groups of six to ten we shared many enjoyable occasions, including memorable Saturday night sessions in the…