1 Omagh — Strabane — Father Gearóid’s memories — Loss through tuberculosis
2 Inchicore — ‘Blackbird Soup’ — The Volunteers
3 Back in Strabane — A ghost in the house
4 Free from school — Attempts at teaching us — A care-free life — Smoking
6 Strabane before the border — My uncle Joseph — At the rehearsals
8 My father’s library — How we made films
9 Playing croquet — Hens and cocks — Building houses — Another visit from the soldiers
11 More about our father — His death
12 At school at last — A bout of fighting
13 The stones that fell from heaven in Herbert Place
15 Clochaneely in 1927 — Céilithe in Coláiste Uladh — The great change
18 Poaching expedition to Gleann Bheatha
20 Richard McManus — Passing time in Williamstown — Spearing flatfish
22 Theses on Brian’s work — An Béal Bocht
23 ‘He has his trade without learning it’ — Pooka in the bedroom — Brian’s way of writing