KD SoundCloud - Memories of Kilcullen in the 1930s

The late Paddy Nugent's parents came to live in Kilcullen in 1930, writes Brian Byrne. As an adult decades later, Paddy became a key figure in Kilcullen's development, being a founder member of Kilcullen Development Association. At a difficult economic time, along with some other Kilcullen people of the time, he helped to lay the foundations of the thriving town that we have today.

During the mid 1980s, while I was an RTE radio journalist, I did an interview with Paddy about his memories growing up in Kilcullen in the 1930s. I never used it for broadcast, and only found the tape again a few years ago.

This programme is edited from that conversation, which is a unique recollection of an era that was completely different from today. I'd be very glad to hear of any similar.

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