Archive (4 life histories found)

As children we all attended Lislea Primary school which was situated about two miles from our house, on the Ballyards road. The quickest way to get there was by taking a shortcut through a nearby farm, Nicholsons, which had an existing lane from the…

The Kiltegan presence in Kenya expanded rapidly during the late 1950s and early 1960s. By 1963 there were about 40 Kiltegan priests in the Diocese of Eldoret at any one time. They were all Irish. At that time the diocese stretched from Lake Turkana…

This is a picture of Mary Dynan's mother drawing water from the pump. When Mary's mother first married, herself and Mary's father lived in a house in Cloughmills that had no running water. They stayed there while awaiting the building of their new…

A photo of Maisie McNailly in front of traditional buildings and a castle in Switzerland.