Before There Was Me
    Parents Place of Birth                                                     A Look At Ireland Now!
       My parents were both born in Ireland.  My father was raised on a farm in County Meath and from all accounts had an idealic childhood.  Idealic as any childhood was in the thirties and forties around a farm.   My mother was born in Dublin. Her parents witnessed the Easter Rebellion of 1916.   Rebels took over the General Post Office for six days. From their flat, her parents could see the gunmen on the roof.  Eventually they were overpowered by British soldiers, but it did start the independence movement for Ireland.  
     

    Their Moves                                                                             Manchester, England Today
    Ireland is a small island.  Many people are amazed to find out just how small it is.  You could fit both Ireland and England into the State of Oklahoma alone and still have room for,say,Germany.  Unfortunately their population isn't so small.  It is almost a rite of passage for the youth of Ireland to move to England's northern industrial cities to work, and my parents were no exception. There is a wicked tradition in England of playing practical jokes on youth who are employed for the first time.  My mother was sent on an errand on her first day to find a glass hammer!  The northern city my parents moved to was Manchester.  It is very similiar city to Liverpool which most people are more familiar with because of the Beatles.  Years later, my parents met and married,and my eldest sister was born there.