Archive (29 life histories found)

Christmas was my very favourite time of year. On Christmas Eve I had to go to bed very early. I was so excited I could hardly get to sleep. Then on Christmas morning I was wakened by my granny shouting 'come and see what Santa has brought '. In…

Thus started one of the happiest periods of my childhood years. My father was away with the RAFR. My mother took a job in a munitions factory,like so many other women at that time to help the war effort. My aunt worked in a large city centre…

My name is Norma Stewart McCullough. I was born on 26th September 1937. For the first ten years of my life I moved around quite a bit. The house I was born in was in Joanmount Crescent on the Ballysillan Road,where I stayed until my father joined…

Norma's little granddaughter at the beach

Norma and her parents, brothers and grandmother

Norma's grandmother and her mother

Nomra's parents pictured with her two brothers and Norma's grandmother

I was the third of six children one died at a few months. We were always told we had a brother an angel. Daddy was a tailor and employed another man Jim Dolan (a lovely man) who lived down at the lake. He would bring us a big bag of apples when…

A picture of Rosemary McCloskey's maternal grandparents, Rose and James McMacken taken in their garden in Dungiven

A picture of Rosemary McCloskey's maternal grandparents, Rose and James McMacken