by Irish Beo Author | Jan 21, 2010 | Stories from the old Schoolhouse
Sean Keane, born in 1923, is interviewed by pupils from Fohenagh national school about his childhood memories of the locality. Sean talks of how the school house was so cold that the pupils used to jump up and down in the play yard just to keep warm. He reminisces...
by Irish Beo Author | Jan 15, 2010 | To the Manor Born
In this episode, the Hon. Edith Dillon Mahon gives an account of a 6 month residency in Dublin due to her father & mother’s work commitments that came to an end when grandpapa’s (Lord Clonbrock) health declines. She then recounts eloquently on the last...
by Irish Beo Author | Jan 15, 2010 | To the Manor Born
In this episode, Hon. Edith Dillon Mahon provides further insights into life at baronial Clonbrock incl on how a rigid social divide existed even amongst servants; on the huge stables at Clonbrock that housed animals, stable boys & a range of carriages, & on...
by Irish Beo Author | Jan 15, 2010 | Servants & Farmhands
Josephine Dermody gives a brief interview on her grandfather Jack Gilmore and father Bob Grady who were both gardeners at Clonbrock House belonging to one of the greatest of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy. Georgian & Victorian Gardens of Clonbrock -The...
by Irish Beo Author | Jan 15, 2010 | Servants & Farmhands
Mary Egan Glynn was an upstairs room maid at Clonbrock House. In this interview, she tells of her daily chores that included cleaning out the room fires, opening up the curtains, bringing up the breakfast tray and putting on the bath for her mistress. She also speaks...
