Stanley David WWII Veteran
Air Gunner with 264 Squadron RAF SOE Special Operations North Africa

Stanley David WWII Veteran
Air Gunner with 264 Squadron RAF SOE Special Operations North Africa
Interview with Alan Tyler WWII Royal Navy veteran
An interview with Milton Brazil. WWII bomber Navigator
Lt Colonel Geoffrey Rothband T.D. Age 94, interviewed on 20th March 2015 A Manchester man through and through, Geoffrey Rothband followed in his father’s footsteps enlisting in the Lancashire Fusiliers in 1938. Seeing combat throughout the war from Dunkirk to Burma via East Africa and […]
Reminiscences: The real lives of Irish Travellers Summer of 2012 and I’m travelling in Ireland. One night in a bar, and I’ve now come to learn that many of the best tales start one night in an Irish bar, I’m nursing a pint of Guinness […]
Reminiscences: The real lives of Irish Travellers The children of the Travelling community grow up constrained by strict social mores, they keep themselves to themselves and are shunned by the wider community. Often denied ecucation by the state, surrounded by inter-family fueding, alcoholism, domestic violence […]
Reminiscences: The real lives of Irish Travellers Barney & Nancy foster five Traveller children from heroin addicted parents and have been active in Traveller community development for over 20 years. Barney: Before we got this house we saw a house up in Beechmont and the agent […]
Reminiscences: The real lives of Irish Travellers Brian McDonagh, typically of the elder generation of Traveller struggled to come to terms with life in a house and fears for the future of a community challenged by drugs, alcohol, violence and a loss of faith. Brian: I’ve […]
Reminiscences: The real lives of Irish Travellers Missie Collins and her daughter-in-law Tessa Collins both work at the Pavee Point Traveller & Roma center in Dublin, as primary healthcare workers and in the violence against women programme. Missie: No less than last week I […]
Reminiscences: The real lives of Irish Travellers John Mongan, travelled in and out of Ireland as a boy to seek work in the fields, building sites and slaughter houses of Scotland and then England, returning home to marry when still in his teens. John: […]