Archive (5 life histories found)
'For me it is in the fabric of my being'
Antrim is a beautiful part of the world, which is now, unfortunately, a well kept secret because people are deterred by the 'Troubles' from visiting there. For me it is in the fabric of my being. Its memory 'haunts me (in the nicest possible way)…
'I remember going there as a child because my family had use of the farm buildings and expecting to see Rumplestilskin or Rapunzel at any minute'
I was born in Ballymena, the county town of Antrim, and spent the first 12 years of my life in a village about 10 miles out of the town, half way to Ballymoney, called Cloughmills. We were situated right in the middle of what was the ancient region…
'I like to think that it was there that Patrick learned the Irish language - so he spoke it with a Northern accent'
As a child growing up there I was very conscious of the fact that in our little patch of North Antrim there were many places associated with St Patrick. At Dunseverick, the castle on the north coast which is reputed in the Annals of the Four Masters…
Tags: Antrim, history, landscape, St. Patrick
'I love the song that I learned as a child about County Antrim'
People of Antrim love their county and have written songs in its praise. The story goes that a man from Glendun was thinking of emigrating and he wrote a song in which he imagined what it would be like to be away. He made himself so sad that he…
'I still get a thrill as I come over the hill on the way to Ballycastle, look down to Fairhead and over to Rathlin'
I don't think, as a child, I would have been too surprised to 'meet a lochrey man' such as the one mentioned in Seosamh 0 Cathmhoill's song which was a favorite My father and mother were Irish And I am Irish too. I bought a wee fidil for…