In this episode David Crampton talks about our grandfather, John Joseph Wilson and his life from his birth in Corran, Leap, West Cork on 25th September 1884 through his emigation to America, his return to Ireland in 1925 and life at Derry House...

In this episode David continues the story of our grandfather, John Joseph Wilson's siblings. They were the children of Allen Wilson (1843-1925) and Catherine (Kate) Grace (1851-1925).

In this episode David Crampton talks about our paternal Wilson great grandparents and their forebears, and introduces us to their children (including our grandfather, John Joseph Wilson) and his siblings - three of whom died young. As a referen...

In this episode olive and iris talk about the stories they heard growing up in Ireland in the immediate aftermath of the Irish war of Independence (1919-1921) and the Irish Civil War (1922-1923).In MemoriamElizabeth Olive E...

In this episode Olive and Iris continue to tell us about the Weir family (well, mainly Olive does!). The story of the Weirs that we're telling starts with Olive and Iris's grandparents (my great grandparents) Robert W Weir and Eliza...

Olive and Iris continue with the background to the Bird family. Here is the family tree, starting with John Bird and Elizabeth Good, who were first cousins. John and Elizabeth Bird are the grandparents of Olive (Leslie), Iris (Colin), Stuart an...

Olive Leslie and Iris Colin, the two eldest children of Robert Edward Weir and Annie Bird, discuss their recollections of their parents, grandparents and aunts and uncles and their lives growing up in Irishtown and their happy memories of Bally...

In this episode John Colin talks about growing up in Irishtown during the war (when his father was away on active service as a Chaplain in the RAF). He also tells about his trips to Cork (to Ballydulea and Ballybricken) to spend holidays with h...

John Wilson is talking to Richard Bird about his life in the Army and his father, Jason Grant Bird, a doctor, who after service in the RAF at the end of World War 1, settled in Reading where Richard and his siblings were brought up.

In this episode John Wilson talks to John Christopher Bird, his first cousin, once removed about growing up in Ireland, his memories of holidays in Ballydulea, his career and his marriage to Mary, a Roman Catholic, which not quite scandalised, ...

David Bird talks about the history of Ballydulea, the Bird family and his life and times.

John Wilson providing a brief introduction to four strands of his family - Bird, Weir, Greene and Wilson.