Strumpet City RTÉ DVD90, E14.99 by John Gibney Dublin City Council’s ‘One City, One Book’ initiative sees a work of literature connected with the city being officially promoted every April. Dubliners and Gulliver’s travels are amongst those chosen in previous years, and in the centenary year of the 1913 Lockout James Plunkett’s Strumpet city (originally … Read more
My mums name is Dolores Henderson now but back in 1970 she was known as Dolores Mc Dermott. A little back ground to my mum. She lived in a Place called Corrigeenboy near Ballyfarnon, Co. Roscommon. This rural area was made up of small farmers. Children helped on the farms. After her dad died in … Read more
From the age of five my mother, her sister and her three brothers would spend four to six long lazy weeks at her Auntie Annie’s farm in the country in the summer. Her uncle Jack would arrive in his black Morris Minor car and the whole bunch of kids, all five of them, would load … Read more
I could never have imagined that a shopping trip to the market of Antibes in Southern France could have triggered dormant memories of my childhood days in the village of Blanchardstown in the 1950’s. Specifically, I remembered a summer holiday spent as a companion to the son of the Master of St Vincent’s Hospital on … Read more
Grace Sweeney is getting ready to celebrate her 100 birthday on 15 December in her bungalow at Annagry in the Rosses in West Donegal. Born in 1909 she had a varied life. She went into service or, as they called it in Donegal, she went ‘on hire’ working for neighbours until she was sixteen. Then … Read more