We were very fortunate one evening to have the opportunity to record the memories of Billy Mc Kinley from Ballylawn, Co. Donegal. A member of the Raymochy Historical Society and also the Raymochy History Links Project Group, Billy begins the recording with the detailed research he has carried out into his own family history before talking about his own life, after which the recording becomes even more interesting! The recording was carried out by members of the Raymochy History Links Project Group.
Billy also brought in slides which we were able to convert to digital format. Scroll further down the post and have a look!
Enjoy and don't forget to leave comments.
You can follow the full transcript
here.
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| Billy's Aunt Louie, Cousin Eva and his Mother, Maud |
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| Oat Stooks, Ballylawn, 1958 |
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| First Combine Harvester in Raymochy, 1958, Owner was Roy Russell |
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| Potatoes in Ballylawn 1958 |
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| Roy Russell's Combine harvester, 1958 |
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| Harvesting oats, Ballylawn, 1958 |
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| Aiden, 1958 |
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| Liner at Aiden, 1958 |
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| Aiden Airways Dakota DC-3 Plane at Hargeisa, Somlia |
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| Gulf of Aiden 1958 |
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| Billy's Wee Bungalow, Somalia |
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| Hagi Mousa, a teacher at the school |
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| Student's Tug of War, Boramo (site of school) |
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| Football at Boramo |
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| View from the school looking towards Ethiopia |
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| Volleyball at Boramo, Pre-1960 |
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| Teachers at Boramo. Two Indian teachers (maths) from Kerala, and a Science teacher from Somalia |
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| Students at the School |
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| Headmaster of the school (third from right), with the speaker of the Southern Somali Parliament (fourth from right), who later became the President of Somalia |
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| Dormitories at the old secondary school |
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Headmaster of the school (right) with the local govenor, Sir Theodore Pike (left)
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| Tribal Leaders queuing for entry in the new parliament at Hargeisa at the offical opening, 1960 |
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| Governor Pike taking the salute at the parliament opening |
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| Military band at the opening |
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| Old slave trading post |
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| Ghost town of Zeila, important during the days of the slave trade |
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| Somali Tribal Family |
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| Close of Somali indigenous dwelling |
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| Somali lady with Billy in the background (top left) |
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| Somali Ladies relaxing |
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| Camel, mostly used for transporting water |
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| Somali fat-tailed sheep |
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| Collection of Somali indigenous dwellings (late 1950s) |
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| Two boys at the Sheikh school |
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| Sheikh village at a distance from the new school |
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| The road to Berbara |
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| Soil erosion at Boramo |
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| Two boys on land suffering from erosion |
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| Coastline at Berbera at the Gulf of Aiden |
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| Native bush flowering during the rainy season |
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| View from Sheikh school |
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| Footbridge across river at Hargeisa (could completely flood during rainy season) |
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| Boramo in the rainy season |
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| Boramo in dry season | | | |
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| New 'Sheikh' secondary school teacher's residences |
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| New school classrooms |
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| New school |
All photographs (c) Billy Mc Kinley
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