'The Yanks threw a party for all the children in the district in the ballroom of the Great Northern Hotel. '

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Title

'The Yanks threw a party for all the children in the district in the ballroom of the Great Northern Hotel. '

Description

Hugh Duncan remembers a party organised by the American Soldiers in the Great Northern Hotel. He reflects on how upsetting it was to see them setting off to Normandy, knowing so many died.

Creator

Hugh Duncan

Publisher

Trinity College Dublin

Date

1945

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Relation

Hugh Duncan

Is Part Of

Adolescence and Early Adulthood

Type

Life Story

Spatial Coverage

Rostreavor, Co. Down

Temporal Coverage

1940s

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The Yanks threw a party for all the children in the district in the ballroom of the Great Northern Hotel. A beautiful building covered with ivy when changed colour. Their barracks was just a short distance from May Cottage and we saw a lot of what they were doing from the house. It was a very sad day for us when we noticed great big troop carriers lied up from the front of our house right along the Shore Road. We didn't know at the time that they were embarking on the first leg of the journey to Normandy. Around 2000 billeted around Rostrevor went to ward and it was reported from one of the G. I. Brides from America that only a few hundred survived.

Sponsor

Irish Research Council for Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences (IRCHSS)

Research Coordinator/P.I.

Dr Kathleen McTiernan (Trinity College Dublin)

Senior Research Associate

Dr Deirdre O'Donnell (Trinity College Dublin)

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