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
My grandparents lived in a cottage in killery Balintogher near Lough gill. They had no electricity and there was no water and tap in the house for water. My grandfather had to go there well every morning and got two buckets. In the house they had an open fire. Over the fire they had three … Read more
Michael Manning, Battalion Adjutant, Old IRA, Clifden District, Co Galway, received intelligence that the Black and Tans were searching for an informer in Clifden who had set up an ambush against their unit only the previous week. They were threatening to travel to Clifden by train for a search and destroy mission for the presence … Read more