'The flood was rising'
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Title
'The flood was rising'
Description
Maisie McNailly describes the day war was declared in 1939 and the flood on her families' farm.
Creator
Maisie McNailly
Publisher
Trinity College Dublin
Date
1939
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Relation
Maisie McNailly
Is Part Of
Childhood and Early Life
Type
Life Story
Spatial Coverage
Co. Down
Temporal Coverage
1930's
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Text
I remember the day war was declared in September 1939. It was on a Sunday at 11 a.m. There had been very heavy rain causing the river Bann banks to overflow. The flood was rising in one of my father's fields. My father tried to get as much help as possible to pull the corn, which was in stokes, into higher ground. We children were helping. A man living next door to us wouldn't allow his family to help because it was Sunday.
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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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