SUMMER HOLIDAYS

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 […]

Mother’s memories as a returned emigrant

I lived in London until I was 8, then my family (Mam, Dad and I) returned to live on a farm outside Boyle.  Both my parents were Irish, having emigrated […]

My Grandad’s job as a Photographer – By Megan Sheerin

My Granda always told me stories about his job. He was a photographer. He moved from Glasgow to Buncrana in Donegal. The reason his family moved was because my great […]

Interview For History

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 […]

Personal History – Francis Walsh

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 […]