Nick Maxwell

My great, great,Uncle was James Connolly. He was born on the 11th of September 1897 in Kinlough, County Leitrim. He was the Captain of the Third Western Division in the IRA and he was killed in action at Finner Camp on the 29th of June 1922. He came from a long string of IRA members … Read more

My story comes from my mother who was told this by her mother my grandmother. During the war of independence my grandmother was only a baby she lived through many raids in her small house in conemara her mother my great grandmother supported the I.R.A at the time so she helped hide guns and sometimes … Read more

In Castletown, Wexford around the 1960’s I lived on a farm with my ma, da and 7 brothers and sisters. My Dad was a farmer so we lived out in the country. We did a lot of things by ourselves. The boys mainly did all the outside work, the girls worked inside. I remember when … Read more

Secondary School Life during the 1940s in Sligo These are the memories of a lady who lived in Ballyshannon and attended boarding school in Markievicz House in Sligo during the 1940s. Markievicz House was the Protestant Girls High School in Sligo and was a boarding school. It was run by a headmistress who “hated” boys … Read more

This story is from a first-hand account from my father. It happened when he was only five or six. At the time him, his parents, and his grandfather, lived in a small house on Curraghill, Drumshanbo, Leitrim. It must have been 1970 or 1971, when his father bought their first tractor. It was a little … Read more