For most of my early childhood my family of 6 lived in a one-bedroom flat on the 9th floor of a tower block in Inchicore. When I was 9 we moved to a new 3 bedroom house in Ballyfermot. Our new home was one of 5 new builds at the end of Rossmore Road. There… Continue reading St. Patrick’s Day Memories: Joanna Hill
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St. Patrick’s Day Memories: Delvin, Westmeath
A big thank you to the committee of the Delvin St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Westmeath for sharing some fantastic photographs of their past parades from their archives and parish magazines, from around 2006-2010. The Delvin Parade runs from 3-5pm on the 16th March 2025, and you can see more information on their parades and… Continue reading St. Patrick’s Day Memories: Delvin, Westmeath
St. Patrick’s Day Memories: Mary Gaffney
Mary Gaffney has allowed us to share some fantastic photos of St. Patrick’s Day from her native Delvin in Westmeath. On behalf of the Museum of Childhood Ireland, we would like to say a huge thank you to Mary for allowing us to share her memories of St. Patrick’s Day in Delvin. Have you got… Continue reading St. Patrick’s Day Memories: Mary Gaffney
Desmond Morris: Exhibitions and Publications
See Desmond’s story for our “When We Were Kings and Queens of the Road” project below: DESMOND MORRIS BIBLIOGRAPHY 1958 – 2025 1. 1958. THE REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOUR OF THE TEN-SPINED STICKLEBACK. Brill, Leiden. 154p. (Doctor thesis) 2. 1958. THE STORY OF CONGO. Batsford, London. 64p. (for children) 3. 1959. THE INTERNATIONAL ZOO YEARBOOK. I. (Co-editor… Continue reading Desmond Morris: Exhibitions and Publications
When We Were Kings and Queens of the Road: Desmond Morris
WALKING TO SCHOOL When Britain declared war on Germany on 3rd September 1939, I was an eleven-year-old schoolboy. I was a day boy at the Swindon High School, and walked there and back each day on my own. It was a distance of about a quarter of a mile. I kept mostly to main streets,… Continue reading When We Were Kings and Queens of the Road: Desmond Morris
When We Were Kings and Queens of the Road: Alan Lambert
The early morning walks to school that I experienced in the late 1970s have never really receded into the past, as they are revived every time I connect with any part of the Metals, the lanes that run parallel to the railway lines from Dalkey to Dun Laoghaire. As we lived near Sallynoggin, at the… Continue reading When We Were Kings and Queens of the Road: Alan Lambert
The Ghost of Halloween Parties Past
This week we’re featuring some photos taken by Michael McCarthy of a Halloween Party some 50 years ago in Trinity College Dublin. Thank you to Michael for sharing! Want to be featured as part of our Halloween event? Send us your memories and pictures now at cbrowne@museumofchildhood.ie to be featured on our website and socials!
Halloween Memories – Connie Hurley
This week we’ve received some wonderful images from Connie Hurley, who remembers her childhood Halloweens fondly. “For the longest time as a very small girl I dressed everyday in my ‘fairy princess getting married’ outfit. I would go to the shops in it with my mum, take my big sister to school in it, go… Continue reading Halloween Memories – Connie Hurley
When We Were Kings and Queens of the Road: Dr Martina Devlin
FINDERS, KEEPERS – Martina Devlin I learned about the concept of turning in lost property as a result of my walk home from school one day. It was a mystifying notion – instinctively, my acquisitive little brain preferred the ‘finders, keepers’ version. Our family lived close to Loreto Convent Primary School in Omagh, at that time based in a clattery old building on top of a hill, while our house was at the bottom. The school journey… Continue reading When We Were Kings and Queens of the Road: Dr Martina Devlin
When We Were Kings and Queens of the Road: Peter Keane
Reminiscences of my daily schooldays journey Back in the day (the late 1950’s, many moons ago), I lived on Oliver Plunkett Avenue, Monkstown Farm. I attended pre-primary school in Convent Road and CBS Primary and Secondary on Eblana Avenue, Dun Laoghaire. Every schoolday I walked to Dun Laoghaire with my sisters, and walked back home… Continue reading When We Were Kings and Queens of the Road: Peter Keane