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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.

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 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…