Archive (3 life histories found)
'Nobody knew whose child she was of the family'
While growing up neighbours played a huge part of our life. We had moved the area the normal miscellany of eccentrics or oddballs. Mr. F next door kept his wife confined life a prisoner. He never gave us a hint of a smile. We always had a huge…
'The house was cold as we had only the fire for heating, plus the range'
My earliest memories are my brothers and sister and I sleeping in a bed which had to be taken down each night and made up in the sittingroom. It was like a large wardrobe Made by my father. We once found our pet dog missing, after a day wrapped…
Tags: Electricity, gas, heating, TV
'The delivery of turf outside the house was a signal for all the kids of the neighbourhood to assemble with every conceivable manner of vessel: buckets, basins and even zinc bathtubs '
At that time coal was hard to get and gas was still 'On the Glimmer' so my father rented a piece of bog on the Feather Bed Mountains near the present site of the RTE mast at Kippure. He and others cut turf, saved it, placed it in clamps and in…