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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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I was here [in Belfast] on VE Day.
I was down South, I wasn’t married back then.
You know the way when you’re from the country and you’re afraid to go out? I never went out. They were strangers and I was afraid to go out, what might happen to ye. That’s the way I looked at it.

Don’t remember much about it. They were all very glad it was all over at last. Everyone felt elated. They were all delighted. Everyone was delighted.

And then the bread. The bread in the south of Ireland was terrible. I used to think it was like a poultice. The bread was awful. They had no flour down there to make bread either. We had our ration down there too. The bread was awful.

All that was going away, we had the great feeling that that’s all over at last.
All the bombing was all over at last.

I had a sister in Birmingham and another sister was a Nurse in England, worked in London and her hospital was bombed. We’d read the paper every morning before we’d let Mother see it in case her hospital was on the paper. And it was bombed, and a friend of hers was killed. And then they were evacuated to a place called Barnett outside of London, out there for a while.
Another sister went to Birmingham, she worked in a Small arms factory and made arms for the war.

Everyone was delighted it was over.

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