S. P.: You’d be too young to remember the… 1922, that period, the civil war and so on, I suppose.
M. M.: No I don’t. Sure, I remember it well.
S. P.: Do you remember it?
M. M.: Oh yes, I remember 1916.
S. P.: Really?
M. M.: Yes.
S. P.: Did it affect things up here very much?
M. M.: No, no, no. No, the people we bought this little house off of, the Cricket Doyle, you know, we hadn’t bought it a month when the 1916 troubles started.
Mrs. M.: The rebellion in Dublin.
M. M.: And didn’t they land in here one night like what you’d see on the telly with the sheets and all the… [laughter] bed clothing. Popped them down here and… stayed here for a week [laughter].
S. P.: Who, who were these?
Mrs. M.: People from town, you know.
S. P.: Refugees?
Mrs. M.: Yeah, like, they… they came out of the city. Anyone that had anyone belonging to them out this way, you know…
M. M.: Yeah.
Mrs. M.: They came out here for to stay while they were fighting or whatever they were doing in there…
M. M.: They come from Charleville Street, yeah.
Mrs. M.: The rebellion in Dublin, it was…
S. P.: Mm. And did the army come up here at all?
Mrs. M.: The Black and Tans used to come up…
S. P.: Did they?
Mrs. M.: Oh, they did… and British soldiers.
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InformantMick Malone (M. M.) and Mrs. Malone (Mrs. M.)
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Age70+
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AddressBallyedmonduff, Co. Dublin
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CollectorSeán D. Poplewell (S. P.)
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Date of recording06/02/1980
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Recording contextInformant’s home
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Reference(ms.) NFC 1999: 64-65, (audio) UFP0117
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FaisnéiseoirMick Malone (M. M.) & Mrs. Malone (Mrs. M.)
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Aois70+
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SeoladhBallyedmonduff, Co. Bhaile Átha Cliath
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BailitheoirSeán D. Poplewell (S. P.)
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Dáta Taifeadta06/02/1980
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Comhthéacs TaifeadtaTeach an fhaisnéiseora
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Tagairt(ls.) CBÉ 1999: 64-65, (fuaim) UFP0117
