'My wife wanted a wee girl and was disappointed when presented with a little boy '
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Title
'My wife wanted a wee girl and was disappointed when presented with a little boy '
Description
Hugh Duncan describes the birth of his only son Thomas, in Belfast. He describes one incident when Thomas was young and he accidentally got covered in soot from someone's chimney.
Creator
Hugh Duncan
Publisher
Trinity College Dublin
Date
1954
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Relation
Hugh Duncan
Is Part Of
Marriage and Family
Type
Life Story
Spatial Coverage
Belfast
Temporal Coverage
1950s
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Text
My only son Thomas was born on New Year's day in Gardner Robbs Maternity unit of the City Hospital in Belfast. My wife wanted a wee girl and was disappointed when presented with a little boy. When he was about 2 years of age Hannah dressed him in a little sailor suit and let him run around in the back entry to play with another wee lad. She went out to see if he was alright to find him plastered with soot. Someone had left it out after having the chimney swept.
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Irish Research Council for Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences (IRCHSS)
Research Coordinator/P.I.
Dr Kathleen McTiernan (Trinity College Dublin)
Senior Research Associate
Dr Deirdre O'Donnell (Trinity College Dublin)
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