My maternal grandmother (‘Jeff ’) and grandfather with five of their seven children: left to right: Robert, Laurence, Frederick, Leo and Kathleen (my mother)

My paternal grandparents in 1898

My paternal grandfather (‘Pappa’) as I remember him

My mother aged sixteen

My father aged twenty-two

Family snapshots: summer 1934

Myself in Confirmation dress, May 1943

Charles Kerins in 1944, a year before he was hanged

My first continental tour, 1952: in the German countryside

and in Strasbourg

Spain, 1956

County Wicklow, 1959

Turkey, 1963