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'The war, or emergency as it was called in Ireland, was in full flow and rationing had a severe grip on the city and countryside'

I was born on the 2nd March 1942, the sixth of ten children of Anthony (Tony) Browne and Mary (May) Browne (nee Hunter). I was christened in St Agatha's Church in North Strand, the Archbishop of Dublin's parish church. The day of my baptism there was…

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