[…]a highly prestigious award. And it was for its coverage of the troubles down the years. So that was totally memorable. The journalistic fraternity in Belfast honoured me byUnknown Speaker 1:33 putting me in their hall of famers adware. So I think that is about it. In terms of cricket. I'[…]
[…]oducer. Interviewer Norman Swallow. Recorded on the thirtieth of June 1992, Side One.Right, first Sheelagh when and where were you born?I was born in Belfast in 1923.Ah, ha.Mm, mm.And schooling?Yes, Victoria College.In Belfast?In Belfast.Ah, ha.Which is noted for one thing only, that in my mind whic[…]
[…]What happened was that I diverged to mention the, his service in Ireland at the end of the war. He taught, when he was discharged he was de-mobbed in Belfast in 1920 in April or May 1920. And he taught in Belfast for some weeks and in a very bad novel that I've written about his life, which is[…]
[…] And there was an advertisement in the paper, the famous Belfast Telegraph, of which John Cole used to be the editor. […]
[…]d been a Gladstonian liberal and all that. Well my father died when I was four, we had already moved to another village. And then my mother went into Belfast, we all moved into Belfast, where my mother who had been a teacher in Victoria College Belfast, a big girl's school over there, resumed her ol[…]
[…]performances, a terrific script, and wonderful music. It was a hit that, you know, [unclear 0:09:13], and it, in many ways, had told more about Belfast than many a documentary, actually, what was going on in Northern Ireland. And then the comedy was very good because Duncan, […]
[…] yes. And I, and I cast it. I went to Belfast and, and interviewed quite a lot of, of actors […]
[…]t worry. Oh don’t ask me questions like that.[Laughter] Because in fact I’d, I’d used a lot of Irish actors.Yes, yes. And I, and I cast it. I went to Belfast and, and interviewed quite a lot of, of actors who in fact are based in Northern Ireland. And, and what we did was... In fact the house that w[…]
[…] incidentally at Lulworth I met my present wife and just after that my wife in Wales died of a heart attack and then my daughter Dorothy went over to Belfast and was brought up with my parents, my father being Irish and his home over there in Belfast. Dorothy was brought over here and I got married […]
