by irishbeo | Apr 27, 2020 | Stories - Rural Life
Tales from the ‘Plain People of Ireland’ Women are the great unsung heroes of human history, Their stories were seldom written but it was they who prepared the food for the table, kept the home fires burning, made the clothes for the family and reared the...
by irishbeo | Apr 27, 2020 | Stories - Rural Life
Tales from the ‘Plain People of Ireland’ From a series of stories about Life In Rural Ireland in the first half of the 20th century. In this episode, Jim Crehan talks of growing up on a small family farm in east Galway during the 1930s and 1940s where he...
by irishbeo | Apr 27, 2020 | Stories - Rural Life
Tales from the ‘Plain People of Ireland’ From a series of stories about Life In Rural Ireland in the first half of the 20th century. In this episode Cork city girl Phil Lally remembers the sweet sounds, smells and sights of idyllic summer holidays working in...
by irishbeo | Apr 27, 2020 | Stories of Town Life
Tales from the ‘Plain People of Ireland’ From a series of stories about Life In Rural Ireland in the first half of the 20th century. In this episode we hear Chris O’Flynn talk about living in a building that was once the hub of industry in an...
by irishbeo | Apr 27, 2020 | Stories of Town Life
Tales from the ‘Plain People of Ireland’ In this episode, Tony Lowry talks of the resourcefulness of his father who acted as a general handyman for the decaying single storey houses of low-income tenant families in post-war Waterford city. Photograph of...
