ORAL HISTORY ARCHIVE:
BILL KIRK
Interviewed by Richard West
Location: Artist's home, Newtownards, County Down
Date: March 2006
Still taken from: 'Sandy Row' by Peter O'Doherty
Chapter 3:
(Chapter 3 of 15, Running Time: 00:08:19)
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Chapter 3 Synopsis:
- Illness continually present - became dulled to death.
- Father chose not to take treatment.
- Happy memories of reading Beano and Dandy.
- Grandfather had died prior to Father's death.
- He and his sister end up living with Grandmother.
- The Shop was abandoned by this stage.
- A portion of Grandfather's collection went to Ulster Museum and Dublin Museum.
- Vivid memory of Grandfather's mealtime ritual - he would study a picture while he ate.
- Attributes interest in books to his Grandfather's book collection.
- Years later learns how his Grandfather's find of a bronze horses bit allowed historians to a identify a common metal working technology that stretched as far as Yugoslavia.
- Finally came to appreciate his Grandfather.
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