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- CSV Media NI
- People in story:听
- Jim O鈥橦agan
- Location of story:听
- Belfast, N Ireland
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A8684201
- Contributed on:听
- 20 January 2006
This story is taken from an interview with Jim O鈥橦agan, and has been added to the site with their permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions. The interview was by Walter Love, and transcription was by Bruce Logan.
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My mother claimed I came after the war. She was confused, because the blitz ended for Belfast in 1941. I came about a year after that.
I remember the Doughboys coming from Ormeau Park. Going off to D-day.
The old black hackney cabs with horses pulling them. They seemed to last long after the war.
Going round the city hall.
[You weren鈥檛 evacuated]
Certainly not. But the primary school I was in, I looked at attendance records after the war. They were down 50% from 1941 Spring term.
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