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Helen Fegan-Joyce

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Helen Fegan-Joyce

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From her family's ancestral sword-making business in Sligo to her own experiences of the damp and hunger of wartime Dublin, 94-year-old Helen Fegan-Joyce recalls the past with exceptional eloquence. As well as stories of her missionary aunt (who tracked down the Bounty crew's descendants on the Pitcairn Islands) and her nationalist uncle Bertie (a close friend of Arthur Griffiths), she recounts the excitement of buying her first pair of shoes, swimming off Rosses Point and salmon fishing in the dark of night. Music by Liam Mulvaney

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