Mrs. Kathleen Nevin was 9 or 10 during the war and she shared these memories with me of her childhood in...
Many of these were allocated at Stormont, in the grounds of the Parliament Buildings, where I spent many a...
It was at sundown and I went out to the kitchen and I said ‘mum theres a very funny noise...
As a family we holidayed in Portrush and went for a number of picnics to the seaside at Bangor, Donaghadee...
One night while asleep in bed, I woke up confused and heard my mother shouting "Oh, my God, what's...
One day the Captain referred to above arrived in the bar and proceeded to buy praticaly all the whiskey...
4 EVACUATION It was after the second air raid that I was evacuated to my grandmother's seaside house at...
One of them was a Nurse, and the other worked in the office. But they had great friends, and they used to...
On the night of the first air raid on Belfast my friend Deirdre Magee and I were walking along the Shore...
I met another chap there he was Paddy Mailey, from Bangor, he was also a Flight Engineer... Paddy had just...
June Martins Memories of a Belfast Childhood during WW2. Belfast celebrated with a huge firework display at...
In the aftermath he and his friend David combed the streets and came across a fire in a house on Hannah St....
Iwas standing looking out of my glass cage I was in isolation in the Royal Victoria in Belfast yes I am...
THE BLACK-OUT To get to my paternal grandparents’ house we had to travel by bus and when we would...
I lived in Ballynure Street, off the Oldpark Road in Belfast during the Blitz. I was at a dance at...
I was stationed at Ballyhalbert in Northern ireland, 12 miles from the border, working as an operations...
My boyfriend, who later became my husband lost his cousin Hughie Smith shortly after that. In 1940 we used...
My father often told the story of how his Father-in-law and my Uncle went across the border to Dundalk...
Steven was only eleven years old in 1942 when his mother decided that he and his four brothers should move...
I was sixteen when the Yanks came over, after that it was jitter bugging in the Plaza and the Orpheus where...
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