Introduction

Voices from the Camps

Dickie Kelly of Suipacha, by Joe Murray (2004)


 

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00.00:00 My grandfather came down in the year 1862, and eh... he came down alone. And he never knew anymore about his family. 
00.11:70 He came down here and he married Ann Gilligan in the year 1872. –And that was the start of the family in this country. –That was the start of the family in this country. 
00.27.04 He had three children, my father and two more. 
00.32:61 –I find it hard to believe not only are you not Irish but you were never even in Ireland. –No, I was never even in Ireland. But I feel myself more Irish than Argentine.

 

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