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Description: | Irish civilian schoolchild during Anglo-Irish War and Irish Civil War in Sligo, Ireland, 1916-1920
REEL 1 Recollections of period as civilian schoolchild during Anglo-Irish War and Irish Civil War, 1916-1920: opinion of Easter Rebels and change in opinion after subsequent executions, 1916; father's attitude towards Irish nationalists; warnings her father received about voicing his opinions; use of mattresses at windows; story of IRA raid on house to search it for arms and ammunition, c1918; second IRA raid on house to steal typewriter; subsequent confession of theft fifty years later by casual acquaintance of her brother; father's status in Sligo; occasion when Black and Tans shot up Upper John Street, Sligo c1919; intimidation of children by British troops; British troops mining of bridge in Sligo; feeling aroused by executions of participants of Easter Rising; amusing story of doctor during curfew in Sligo.
REEL 2 Continues: impressions of Gore-Booth family; status of Anglo-Irish; activities of Constance Markievicz in Sligo area; memories of Maeve Markievicz; IRA's taking over of Sligo Town Hall interrupting Sligo Music Festival; how father persuaded IRA to vacate Sligo Town Hall, c1919; how father turned out two nationalists interrupters to music festival. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Gray, Alice Evelyn | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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