'We could actually hear it from our house'

'We could actually hear it from our house'

Ita McClelland describes hearing Roy Orbison play when she was thirteen years old.

Ita McClelland

Trinity College Dublin

1969

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Ita McClelland

Adolescence and Early Adulthood

Life Story

Co. Armagh

1960's

I recall one bright summer evening when I was about thirteen, my mother, sister Eilish and myself watching my brother Aidan who was about seventeen at the time heading off to a Carnival about three miles up the road to hear Roy Orbison. I wouldn't have appreciated the enormity of it at the time, but do now. We could actually hear it from our house as it was a very calm evening.

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

Dr Kathleen McTiernan (Trinity College Dublin)

Dr Deirdre O'Donnell (Trinity College Dublin)