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This is taken from an interview of Molly Lonergan, Lucy Gordon, Kathleen O’Hare. the interviewer was David Reid, and the transcription was by Bruce Logan.
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Then of course the Americans came to the towns. They were just gone when I got married in '46. I had 2 sister-in-laws, they worked for the Americans. Out in Lockheed, was that where the Americans were? One of them was a Nurse, and the other worked in the office. And they got a lot of things out there from the Americans at that time.

They liked them, anyway, they were working for them.
They were very kind with children. I remember there was a camp up near where we went from school to home, and they always had something for us, every evening. They were very nice.
They were so jolly.
I never knew them, but my sister-in-laws, they had just left them when I got married in 1946. But they had great friends, and they used to come for tea to their house sometimes.

I can’t say that I ever saw any [Black US GIs].
There was none [GIs] in my country [Eire] where I was [Co. Leitrim].

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