Life, love and loss on the road to partition
Where were my women on May 3, 1921? Did they dance on the streets and wave flags when Northern Ireland was born? Were their struggles any different when they woke up the next day? The women in my family were ordinary Protestants from Belfast and Newry. Their stories have not been overly preserved. I have suitcases of clippings on war heroes and handed-down tales of notable men. But I have fewer tools to discern how my women experienced their lives 100 years ago. I've used official records, newspaper archives and fragments of family memories to piece together their lives. I wanted to see wha...
Source: belfasttelegraph.co.uk
