Northern Ireland

Petrol Rationing in Ballymena

Commercial vehicles had a different type of petrol issued — it was known as “leaded”...

Living in Londonderry during World War Two

Food rationing was then introduced which meant that all the main items of food such as...

Agnes's Story as Told by the Children of Strand Primary School: Memories of Northern Ireland

Agnes liked to play Hopscoth, Skipping, rounders, two balls and rap the doors and run... When Agnes was...

The Wreckage

Mackies Foundry was a Munitions Factory during the war and the little streets of’ two up two...

Eleanor's Story: By the Children of Strand Primary School

Eleanor Weir was 23 when World War 2 broke out. Eleanor Weir was 22 when World War Two started....

Defending Ulster from Hitler's Paratroops

They reckoned if they were going to drop paratroops, they would drop them either at Dawn or at dusk....

Hitler on the Roof

Ireland's Corner, we went to in Saintfield Road — I can remember the name of it. Ireland's...

When Custard wasn’t quite Custard!

custard substitute’ so the General said ‘it's not even the same colour are you really...

A Child's Memories

On Easter Sunday 1941 we went to visit my aunts in Waringstown as we always did at Easter. On Monday the...

Meeting Glenn Miller

The Pickie Hotel in Bangor was requisitioned by the American Army for the American Red Cross. Lady Bangor...

When Custard wasn’t quite Custard!

custard substitute’ so the General said ‘it's not even the same colour are you really...

The Night Derry Was Bombed

The German Aircraft returned safely to it base in Northern France and we children were perfectly happy the...

Sugared Doughnuts

Every Tuesday we would visit my Aunt in Portrush and as usual we were ushered upstairs so the adults could...

Mary Fitzgerald: an Irish woman in Bergen-Belsen

It is an extraordinary coincidence that when Fr Michael Morrison SJ, a teacher from Belvedere College who...

On Hearing my First Foreign Accent by Bernard McCormack

On Hearing my first Foreign Accent By Bernard Mc Cormack Location : Derry, Northern Ireland. She seemed to...

The Happy Evacuee

My luck held and my sojurn in County Fermanagh was happy, carefree and indeed influenced my life forever....

Omagh prepares for D-Day, aided by Sheila O’Neill

My Catholic grandmother, Mrs Baxter - a descendant, surprisingly, of a Scottish Presbyterian planter who...

American Servicemen in Northern Ireland

But as the days wore on, being a child I completely forgot the war and was only aware of the shortages and...

My memory of the War Days in Comber, Co. Down

There was another man too killed in that tram from Comber... There were soldiers from Staffordshire...

Armagh Childhood War Memories

My father home on leave from the Royal Marines was magic: my uncle, a Somme Vetern, sharing his concerns...

Maisie's Story: By the Children of Strand Primary School.

Maisie was going down town with her friend when suddenly a bomb landed right in front of her there was a...

My Gran's Wartime Memories

I remember: we weren't allowed to let any light in through windows; the street lights were very dimmed,...

Joining the ATS in Omagh in 1939

I was working in the Courthouse in Omagh in the County Surveyor's department in the spring of 1939,...

The Sleeping Bags

The farmer arrived one day in his horse and cart, and proceeded to leave potato sacks in small piles, all...

David Simpson-Catch and Rivet Boy

I started work as a Catch and Rivet Boy at Victoria Yard, Harland and Wolff, Belfast in 1945 - just as...

Jim Cleland's Wartime Memories

However despite our family home being just yards from a munitions factory in Belfast, my mother, Ena...