George Knight

Vanishing Ireland by Turtle Bunbury Histories

Jul 23, 202141:09Society & Culture

This week's interview features 76-year-old George Knight about growing up in Clones, County Monaghan, during its last days as a railway boomtown, and how, as a land-locked teenager, he ran off to sea and found himself sa...

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