The pram as seen in a photo taken in the garden of the Butler family house in Dartford, Kent , England. The Butler Family pram was purchased in 1959 in England by the Butler Family who had emigrated from Cork to England for work. https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/abroad/recording-precious-memories-of-1950s-emigrants-to-britain-1.3561415 https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/forgotten-irish-who-built-post-war-britain-to-be-remembered-1.3133832 Following the birth of their second child in 1962… Continue reading Butler Family Pram
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When We Were Kings and Queens of the Road: Éanna Brophy
TO SCHOOL THROUGH THE 1950s Éanna Brophy My first school was Belgrove School in Clontarf, or, to give its official title, Scoil Eoin Baiste. It was only about a quarter of a mile from our house, so from a very early age I could walk there unaccompanied, unless an older brother or sister was heading… Continue reading When We Were Kings and Queens of the Road: Éanna Brophy
John and Michael’s Toy Garage
“Our father, who was from Co. Cork, met our mother while working in the City of Lincoln Hospital in England in the mid 1950s, and by the early 1960s they had settled in Letterkenny, Co Donegal, where my father was the County Hospital surgeon. By that stage they had two small boys, myself Michael and… Continue reading John and Michael’s Toy Garage