| 23:50 | Richard Murphy sync iv | Richard Murphy It was a demense house! You see, we were somebody! |
| 23:58 | 3 in Nursery | Fiona Murphy My grandmother was very focused on class. The move to Milford, would make her children ladies and gents, as she put it, |
| photo of Betty Murphy and children, then William Murphy solo | easily worth all the money they had.William remained, alone in Ceylon. | |
| Elizabeth Hohler aged 4 / Fiona Murphy vo | Liz was four years old when they all arrived | |
| 24:21:00 | Elizabeth Hohler with photos, shot of hallway Elizabeth Hohler vo, Elizabeth Hohler sync | Liz Murphy The first time I saw Milford, I walked in the front door and there wre rabbits laid in braces all the way from the front door to the bottom of the stair on both sides of the hall because grandfather had been shooting. The place was always over run with rabbits, so things were always being ... killed. |
| 24:43:00 | Edward emerging from a cave | Fiona Murphy Edward was the fifth child and he was two. |
| 24:48:00 | Edward lunbering into yard w/s, m/s rear | Edward Murphy There was 150 acres of woodland for shooting and the activities of having a good shoot was more important than faRichard Murphying. |
| 25:05:00 | Dog and sheep / Christopher Murphy vo | Christopher Murphy My mother really organised us. We had daily tasks and one thing and another. She really organized us, a disciplined little regiment. Bells were rung at different times for classes and their were ructions if ..appearhe four o'clock bell for starting class after tea and we were all out in the woods and just didn't appear. |
| 25:31:00 | Mary Cookson iv | Fiona Murphy What was your accent? |
| 25:35:00 | Mary Cookson Oh absolutely straight whatever my parents had, except when we were playing with country people and then we could be as Irish as you please. Not in the house | |
| 25:48:00 | Mary Cookson iv | Fiona Murphy So two accents? |
| 25:50:00 | Mary Cookson We didn't have two accents, we had two uses. We were with the children outside, and then at home we were the way our parents wanted us to be, without accents. | |
| 26:02:00 | Christopher Murphy / 3 way table | Christopher Murphy I mean after all there you were as a two‐year‐old toddler and I had just been born. Standing with your bucket and spade in the pleasure ground saying, |
| cut to pic of Mary Cookson on stairs with bucket and lamb | ‘bucket, bocket, bucket, bocket', unable to understand which was the right name for the toy you had in your hand. | |
| 26:22:00 | Richard Murphy / 3 way table | Richard Murphy And you came back from the Joyce's and said to daddy, ‘I'm tired god help me' |
| 26:31:00 | Richard Murphy sync bedroom | It has always been instilled in us that we are gentlemen and we should behave like gentlemen. |
| 26:42:00 | Bridie/photo of Murphy children | Bridie And they were called Master Richard, Master Christopher, Miss Mary, Miss Elizabeth and Master Edward, so you called them that. |
| 26:54:00 | Richard Murphy vo pic of Richard Murphy/Christopher Murphy | Richard Murphy Chris and I did not feel happy to be called Master but from up above, they were corrected if they were caught not calling us master. |
| 27:06:00 | Fiona Murphy vo girl looking out of window | Fiona Murphy Many Anglo Irish didn't allow their children to see their Irish neighbours at all. |
| 27:12:00 | Courtney sync | Edward Murphy I wasn't encouraged to have friends amongst the townspeople when I was a child |
| Courtney photo, Courtney | My mother was very dubious and she said are you sure it's ...are they clean? I can remember her saying, you know, make sure that when you accept a dink or something, that the glass has been washed! | |
| 27:31:00 | Mary Cookson sync | Mary Cookson Yes well we played with the Catholics, they were the most fun we had with the country children |
| 27:39:00 | Bridie, Devan lodge photo, Bridie vo | Bridie There was John and their was Willie, Kathleen, Nancy, Joe and Barbara and my eldest brother was reared by my Granny. |
| Pic at gates | My Mum would go out and open the gate. And you'd go out and open the gate and just wave. | |
| Bridie vo cont. | ||
| 28:04:00 | Gate posts Gatelodge poem vo photo of car in distance | Barefoot a child skips from my heart to touch the wrought, obsequious latch of lip service, taking you in-between double gates to reach beyond the ruts, your mothers peerless place. |
| 28:20:00 | Bridie's parents photo | Fiona Murphy Your father's actual job was what? |
| 28:22:00 | Bridie He worked as a labourer in the big house and he worked very hard. He had to work on a Sunday as well. And the money wasn't very much in those days. Oh no. | |
| BIRDIE vo broken window gatelodge | We had our own turf and everything like that, and our own cow and we used to make the churning and have our own butter and vegetables. So we were very happy there. And the rosary was said every night. You were not allowed to go out or go to bed without the rosary being said. | |
| 28:54:00 | Edward Murphy | Edward Murphy The poor girls got paid nothing. I remember Kathleen got paid about £36 a year. For working twelve hours a day 365 days a year. |
| 29:07:00 | Bridie, then vo pic 5 children with Kathleen, | Bridie Kathleen was the parlour maid dressed up in a black and white apron and all that |
| 29:14:00 | children and Kath pic cont, Edward Murphy vo, then sync Edward Murphy | Edward Murphy We had cats and one of the cats spewed on the bed or something and the cat got severely beaten for spewing on the bed and so the wretched maid that beat the cat, we chased her round the garden with sticks. |
| 29:32:00 | 3 way | Mary Cookson If you looked at it in the context of what was going on in England, it wasn't quite as ghastly as it seems no us looking back on it. |
| One wonders how one could have been like that | ||
| How one? We weren't grinding the faces of the poor at Milford. | ||
| Mary Cookson/Richard Murphy, intersecting shot of outdoor loo, | Mary Cookson/Richard Murphy We had maids who what did you say? Half a crown a week and they walked up here barefoot from their cottages to work for us. What do you call that? And they used that loo down there outside. An earth closet | |
| Mary Cookson, Richard Murphy | And what did they get for Christmas? They got material to make unifoRichard Murphy to wear. And if anything disappeared they were accused of stealing. | |
| Mary Cookson | Yes awful thieves they were called. One did give them one's old clothes and shoes and things. | |
| So kind we were. | ||
| 30:30:00 | Edward Murphy vo,Edward Murphy cat and girl, syncEdward Murphy | Edward Murphy There was the great divide between Catholics and Protestants. Like you wouldn't say that a black and white marriage was a mixed marriage today, a Protestant and Catholic marriage was known as a mixed marriage. |
| 30:46:00 | There were rhymes. Father father I killed a cat. Great sin that sir, great sin that. | |
| Father father, a Protestant cat. No sin that sir, no sin that. | ||
| 31:05:00 | Elizabeth Hohler vo Montage 7: 10.31.04.22 - 10.31.20.00, Movietone: In the Heart of Erin Market and WHO: Small Market sync Elizabeth Hohler with photos, shot of steeple | One was in an extraordinary position really living at Milford because although we weren't well orff, we were infinitely better orff than everybody else. You were conscious of the fact that you lived in a house which your family had lived in since the end of the 17th century. You were somehow established. You were different anyway because you were a Protestant. |
| 31:37:00 | Montage 8: 10.31.39.19 - 10.31.58.18 Getty: de Valera, ITN: In Galway Market, British Movietone: Heart of Erin Market and British Movietone: Agriculture, Wheat, Blitz Train, Fiona Murphy and ship, Milford facade, Milford side Track 10: 10.31.45.18-10.32.27.22 00.00.42.08 McCoRichard Murphyack Where the River Shannon Flows | Fiona Murphy Britain and the Anglo Irish Protestants were a fixation for Devalera, the Irish leader who at the height of the Depression, said "Burn everything English, except their coal" , and he defaulted on a debt to the British Government. The British retaliated with duties on Irish beef and it was not long before the economy stalled. Whoever could get a job elsewhere, emigrated. Those who stayed were so poor, some died without ever seeing a doctor, so the children's grandmother Lucy ran a clinic from the kitchen. |
| In the mid 30s people were so poor, some died without ever seeing a doctor so the children's grandmother Lucy ran a clinic from the kitchen. | ||
| Franny | Neighbour | |
| 32:24:00 | She treated them there and bought the stuff herself and spent hours looking after them... it used to be like a funeral sometimes, with all the traps and cars and bikes that was going and getting treated there. And she done it all free. She an an... She's in heaven. If there is a heaven, she's in it. | |
| 32:45:00 | Elizabeth Hohler with photos, intersected with Milford side. Montage 9: 10.33.06.23 - 10.33.14.19, ITN: Galway Market | Elizabeth Hohler There was no district nurse. There was no national health. If there was ever an accident in the day or an baby fell into the fire, they all came round to the house and granny, she did a huge amount of nursing, but we couln't come if there was anyghing infectious. People constantly died because there was so little medecine. |
| Track 11: 10.33.13.11 - 10.33.55.12 00.00.42.02 Bouncing Ball YEW Christopher Murphy/v/o tChristopher Murphy in fields, shots of field, Lorraine and children in avenue | ||
| 33:19:00 | Christopher Murphy Up at the top of this tree was a place you could sit down and you could look out over the swallow park, the deer park, the pigeon park and all these huge fields that make up present day Milford. I would sit there and think this is just a magical place, the sunlit parkland all around. | |
| Elizabeth Hohler iv | ||
| 33:49:00 | Elizabeth Hohler It was home. It was everything. The lime avenue and the bumblebees and the primrose wood..paradise primrose woods and the bluebell woods and the bog. It was paradise | |
| 34:04:00 | Christopher Murphy/photo in the window | Christopher Murphy We were quite rough children. Irish boys were much rougher than English boys |
| 34:13:00 | Courtney sync | It was a totally new experience for me when I got there.I was always quite glad to get away because I was always the scapegoat. It was all very foreign to me, because I never did that sort of thing at home |
| 34:23:00 | Track 12: 10.34.23.09-10.34.45.01 00.00.21.19 Les Petits Moulins Mary Cookson Mary Cookson sync/Rolling shots | Elizabeth Hohler We found that if you rolled down the bank in a black car tyre, you could get a terrific kick and could feel frightfully sick and dizzy. We particularly enjoyed doing it to visiting children. |
| 34:33:00 | Courtney | Christopher Murphy It was all very strain, very foreign because I never did that sort of thing at home |
| 34:54:00 | Christopher Murphy AND DOG Track 13: 10.34.49.11-10.35.57.14 00.01.08.03 James Morrison, Adieu to Innisfail Those Endearing Young ChaRichard Murphys | Fiona Murphy One day Christopher set off with a magnifying glass to see what he could do. |
| 35:03:00 | Christopher Murphy AND BOG FIRE Walks/ Lights bud/Stares out | Christopher Murphy It was actually raining at the time. It's flaming now |
| Christopher Murphy | It's the tinder at the very top of the seed that goes | |
| 35:21:00 | Fiona Murphy vo | Fiona Murphy He set fire to the whole bog |
| 35:25:00 | Christopher Murphy vo fire and CU of eyes | Christopher Murphy I was a pyromaniac. After I'd burned it, the plants, it stayed, all those old plants stayed as blackened carcasses for 30 or 40 years. |
| 35:41:00 | Fiona Murphy vo Ditch | Fiona Murphy The fire roared across the land, consuming all the plants and animals in its path, but at last it met a drainage |
| ditch, which saved the house. | ||
| Mary Cookson I think it was tough for my mother. She couldn't cope. I had to help her because they were all so wild. And there were too many children. | ||
| 35:54:00 | Mary Cookson vo Pic Mary Cookson and the children | |
| Courtney Kenny's mother, was always shocked at Mum having five children, as if mum was aElizabeth Hohlerost becoming a tinker having five children | ||
| 36:07:00 | Edward Murphy, then vo BM photo, sync Edward Murphy | |
| 36:23:00 | Two dogs scrapping Montage 10: 10.36.33.05 - 10.36.40.00, Corbis: Goat | Fiona Murphy My grandmother tried to create order. She helped her parents, held prayers and played the piano every morning. But she couldn't stop the children fighting or Christopher's goat from jumping therough the window. |
| 36:38:00 | Mary Cookson v/o Photo boys | Mary Cookson And then the boys went to prep school |
| 36:42:00 | Fiona Murphy Was that a relief? | |
| 36:44:00 | Fiona Murphy v/o Mary Cookson in shot | Mary Cookson Yes! (Laughs) |
| Mary Cookson vo, pic Mary Cookson with cart, side MS pic Mary cookson driving cart | MuMary Cooksony was of the impression that girls should be brought up at home with governesses and be ...at home. | |
| 36:53:00 | Fiona Murphy And boys? | |
| 36:54:00 | Mary Cookson garden | Mary Cookson Oh they must go to the best schools and the money was to be spent on their schooling. |
| Christopher Murphy My father, always had a chip on his shoulder that as an old boy of Tipperary graMary Cooksonar school he didn't have the connections and the pull and the class and the standing of any of his colleagues in the Civil Service, who were all English public school boys and he didn't want his sons to suffer this disadvantage of being Irish school boys. | ||
| 37:00:00 | Christopher Murphy vo, pic of William Murphy in specs, various pics William Murphy and boys | |
| Christopher Murphy sync in front of fire | We wouldn't be cold-shouldered by the English toffs for being Irish bumpkins like he'd felt. | |
| 37:43:00 | Montage 11: 10.37.40.20 - 10.38.18.00, Canterbury Cathedral Archive: Cathedral and Choristers Track 14: 10.37.40.20 - 10.38.10.18 00.00.35.01 Canterbury Cathedral Choir | They chose Canterbury cathedral choir school because along with a religious education, it offered scholarships to its choristers. Even so, William spent half of what he earned on public schools for his boys. |
| Tilt up Canterbury Cathedral | Everyone did it, to stop the drift into Irishness. | |
| 38:05:00 | Montage cont. Richard Murphy vo | Richard Murphy The difference! It utterly changes the future course of a life. |
| Richard Murphy | Christopher Murphy I always, particularly at school, missed Ireland. I used to take a sod of turf, in the study in Canterbury, and make the smell fill the room and I would breathe it, and sigh with nostalgia. | |
| 38:20:00 | Christopher Murphy vo, Christopher Murphy by fire, Christopher Murphy sync | |
| 38:42:00 | 2 shots around Milford 3 way discussion re school in UK | Mary Cookson It was a strange thing. |
| 38:49:00 | Christopher Murphy | This business of, this pretence of going backwards and forwards, and being British in a country that wasn't England. It was very confusing, I think. |
| 38:59:00 | Mary Cookson | I think the situation would have been better if the Anglo Irish families had just ...sent their children to school in Ireland and had considered they were Irish and just got on with it you know. |
| 39:09:00 | Richard Murphy | Richard Murphy When Chris borrowed a copy of Dan Green's, 'My Fight for Ireland's Freedom', MuMary Cooksony confiscated it, found it and was shocked. Did she burn it? |
| Mary Cookson | Mary Cookson It was traitorous. We never had any inkling of that. | |
| 39:21:00 | ||
| 39:28:00 | Christopher Murphy | Christopher Murphy Well when I became an ardent Irish nationalist my mother said to me, 'have you no loyalty?' And I said, 'Yes! For Ireland'. That shut her up. |
| Mary Cookson It was difficult being two things. | ||
| 39:40:00 | MC | |
| Richard Murphy British and Irish | ||
| 39:41:00 | Richard Murphy | |
| Mary Cookson You see I had none of that, there was never any question. My loyalties were absolutely 100% for the aRichard Murphyy and England at that stage you see. My country wasn't really Ireland, you see, which was very strange. | ||
| 39:43:00 | Mary Cookson | |
| 39:59:00 | Fiona Murphy q/Elizabeth Hohler sync, Elizabeth Hohler/donkey pic | Fiona Murphy What did you think your nationality was? |
| 40:02:00 | Elizabeth Hohler I was absolutely certain I was Irish. But being Irish one... one didn't have any political sense of being Irish. One was Irish, one belonged to Ireland but you owed all you allegiance to England. I didn't vote in an election until I was 28 because I didn't belong anywhere. | |
| 40:28:00 | Montage 12: 10.40.29.16-10.40.34.23, WHO: Anarchy vs. Britain,Christopher Murphy iv | Christopher Murphy In the background there was always that sort of feeling, that criticism of Ireland: dreadful people, pigs in the parlour, bog trotters, whathaveyou. |
| Claiming independence from the Great British Empire! | ||
| Christopher Murphy vo Montage 13: 10.40.37.24 - 10.40.49.11, Trinity College Dublin: Bogtrotters | ||
| 40:47:00 | Montage 14: 10.40.49.11 - 10.41.04.11, Municipal Orchard Cartoon | Fiona Murphy English condesention was part of life if you were called Murphy, you were the star of jokes, a dimwit, hilarious. My grandfather William had to represent Britain so he pretended he didn't notice. |
| Christopher Murphy into cupboard | Meanwhile at home, my father was singing rebel ballads and re-imagining old battles fought with pics and hoes, everyone felt the strain. | |
| 41:15:00 | Edward Murphy iv | Edward Murphy Every Sunday we used to sit in that nursery and we used to have to write a letter to our father and that was a sort of bore of Sunday. |
| 41:28:00 | Pan across the nursery to 3 heroes/ m/s rear Richard, w/s another angle Track 15: 10.41.25.20-10.42.15.20 00.00.49.24 Rachmaninov Before My Window | Writing to someone who we saw once in a blue moon |
| 41:38:00 | vo letter photo of William Murphy | VO My darling Son, Everyday I go for a walk on the Galle Face and it is beautifully fresh on the seafront, but I often wish you and Richard were with me. Are you really thinking of the idea of going in for my kind of work? It is a very hard thing to do, at first at any rate and I was very lonely when I first came to Ceylon. Now I (more) ... am.... lonely again, because you are all at home. Your own Dad. |
| 42:13:00 | Lady Hemphill, then vo picture of Murphys on tree | Lady Hemphill I used to love the wildness of it. |
| Fiona Murphy The wildness of ... what? | ||
| Lady Hemphill Well the fact was it wasn't a very grand house was it. They lived in a kind of a... like the Murphy's were. | ||
| 42:21:00 | Lady Hemphill vo cont. photo of drive/Milford various shots | And I used to think, my god are we ever going to get to the end of this avenue, it went on and on and there was that house sitting down with no view surrounded by trees and everything was damp and muddy. |
| 42:33:00 | Elizabeth Hohler | Elizabeth Hohler It hadn't got a river. It hadn't got a lake. It hadn't got hunting. It hadn't got good land. |
| Elizabeth Hohler/bog | It had a bog which was beautiful, but not at all valuable. | |
| Elizabeth Hohler/sheep in front of house | I was very envious of other people's lakes and rivers, but I loved the place. | |
| 42:52:00 | Richard MurphyM | Richard Murphy We did realise that there was a financial inferiority there which we would have to make good in our lives, |
| Mary Cookson sewing/Richard Murphy vo Track 16: 10.45.05.12 - 10.43.55.20 00.00.50.09 Melody in F | if we were to keep up. | |
| Sewing cont/Richard Murphyvo | The Brownes of Breaghwy were obviously more than equal because they had so much money. They had big big hunters | |
| 43:22:00 | Sewing Christopher Murphy vo | Christopher Murphy Our mother hated the subject of money. She thought money was not nice. It was the genteel Edwardian young lady in her that always wanted to have sufficient money, but not to think about it. That was not nice, not done. |
| Christopher Murphy sync in car | ||
| 43:47:00 | Mary Cookson sews dress, | Fiona Murphy My great grandmother Lucy didn't give money or the lack of it, much though at all. |
| 43:53:00 | Mary Cookson vo pic in party dress, sewing | Mary Cookson Granny was great at making clothes. She used to make me party dresses to go to Breaghwy and to go to the Sligos (stumble). Wearing these pink frilly dresses, pink organdie, lovely colour pink. She was very good at colour. And they had no end of frills. But my dear, she never finished anything. It was all the style, and not of the finishing off. And it was full of pins, and I was simply terrified it would fall to pieces at the party. |
| 44:24:00 | Fiona Murphy/photo betty | Fiona Murphy It wasn't the sort of thing Betty found at all funny. |
| 44:29:00 | Mary Cookson iv | Mary Cookson She just wanted you to be upper class. She was ambitious. She'd much rather we married ladies and gentlemen than married oiks. |
| 44:37:00 | Betty Murphy photo/Fiona Murphy vo | Fiona Murphy But there were few gentlemen to go round. No tennis parties, not many luncheons. Why would you want to go there? She used to ask me. Everyone's gone. |
| 45:09:00 | mask, turret, etc Christopher Murphy vo Courtney's, Daly's Track 17: 10.44.52.13 - 10.45.49.13 00.00.56.21 McCoRichard Murphyack Scratchy Grooves | Christopher Murphy The Protestant gentry were leaving the country. The Catholic country people were leaving the country. Fine old buildings everywhere were roofless and covered in ivy. Ireland in the 30s was somewhat degenerate and it was going downhill. |
| 45:51:00 | Montage 15: 10.45.49.07 - 10.45.55.04, British Movietone: King's Speech. 3 listen to King burble/Fiona Murphy | Fiona Murphy When the war started, Betty brought the children back from England, to be home schooled. |
| 45:59:00 | Christopher Murphy, Mary Cookson | Christopher Murphy We did listen to the Home Service every day of life and if ever the national anthem came on the radio, we all... |
| 46:03:00 | Mary Cookson Christopher! We're supposed to be listening not yakking. | |
| 46:05:00 | Richard Murphy | Richard Murphy We must look very reverent |
| 46:07:00 | Christopher Murphy | Christopher Murphy sings: We'll meet again Don't know where, Don't know when! |
| 46:09:00 | Richard Murphy | Richard Murphy We must remain silent if we're supposed to be listening Chris! |
| Mary Cookson rolls her eyes and turns away , 3 shot | voice of King goes on. | |
| 46:19:00 | Richard Murphy Outside Milford there was no war, there was only what was called an emergency | |
| iv Richard Murphy birthing room | ||
| Richard Murphy vo Montage 16: 10.46.27.14 - 10.46.35.10, WHO: Eamon (de Valera) defying, Richard Murphy sync | Mummy's idea was that we mustn't think that we were neutral. And we at Milford were imperialists. We supported the war effort. | |
| 46:37:00 | Fiona Murphy vo Montage 17: 10.46.38.11 - 10.47.12.06, British Movieton: Blitz | Fiona Murphy To Betty's horror, the first bomb of the warwas an IRA one, in London's Oxford Street. |
| Montage 18: 10.47.08.19 - 10.47.12.06, ITN: Galway Market | Plenty of people in Ireland seemed pleased that the English were at last getting their comeuppance, with German bombs providing the punishment. In neutral Ireland, the family's problems of loyalty and allegiance were greater than ever. | |
| Elizabeth Hohler vo pictures of parents | ||
| 47:07:00 | Elizabeth Hohler Ireland's neutrality was a disgrace to my farther and mother. We never wanted to identify with the neutrality of Ireland. | |
| Fiona Murphy vo pic of Uncle Jack, then vo cont. Montage 19: 10.47.25.10 - 10.47.33.24, Movietone: Irish Ploughmen | ||
| 47:17:00 | Fiona Murphy Their uncle Jack and all their male cousins had volunteered and were fighting for the British. Devalera's priority was self-‐sufficiency. In the country of sheep and cattle, there wasn't enough food. | |
| 47:31:00 | Mary Cookson SKETCHING Montage 19 cont.:10-47.38.10 - 10.47.40.14 Mary Cookson SKETCHING | Mary Cookson My mother said we must grow things, so I grew onions but I think something awful happened to the crop because I don't ever remember harvesting any onions. |
| 47:42:00 | Christopher Murphy gathers lime leaves | Christopher Murphy Bless Devalera and Sean McEntee for they gave us black bread and a half-‐ ounce of tea. |
| Granny was a tea-a-holic. A half-ounce of tea a week got her nowhere. So she used to | ||
| gather lime flowers and make lime tea, but the lime flowers weren't sufficient so she went out and cut off great sprays, whole branches | ||
| and cooked them til they were crisp. | ||
| 48:20:00 | Fiona Murphy vo Christopher Murphy in rushes Track 18: 10.48.15.05 - 10.50.07.13 00.01.52.01 Killarney Believe Me | Fiona Murphy Gradually the shortages grew more severe. The family were thrown back on their own resources, which to the children seemed like entering a forgotten world of legend |
| 48:34:00 | Christopher Murphy vo, with Fiona Murphy fiElizabeth Hohlering in marshes | Christopher Murphy To eke out the meagre supplies of oil and candles that we had, I made rushlights |
| 48:44:00 | Christopher Murphy dipping rush/Christopher Murphy vo Dipping rush in fat MS, WS, CU pan, CU face, tilt to flame. KTICHEN | But I quite enjoyed the shortages, being self-sufficient and the idea that we grew our own wheat ...made our own bread and killed our own pigs and made our own bacon. We had our own hens. |
| I kept goats. And I ground the flour for the bread that Kathleen Joyce baked for us. | ||
| and I like the fact that this was grown at Milford, was ground at Milford and was baked at Milford. | ||
| And that we didn't have electricity, because I thought it was more romantic. | ||
| 49:34:00 | Kate on stairs/Richard Murphy vo, Milford ext lit up at night. BLACK | Richard Murphy It was terribly lonely at Milford and the loneliness was part of the poetry of the place, romance. And partly the intensity of the emotion we felt for each other which of course could turn into anger, at very little provocation. |
| 50:03:00 | Richard Murphy in drawing room w memorabilia Poem reading, intersect shots of children | One year at home under my flagging roof during the war, |
| Learning and Love made peace. | ||
| Like a bone-‐setting weaver's warp and woof, | ||
| Your heart and mind were shuttled into place. | ||
| 50:19:00 | Richard Murphy vo | I realised this had been a blissfully happy time . In April 1942, the change came. |
| 50:32:00 | Fiona Murphy vo, ExtEdward Murphy at window | Fiona Murphy Everything shifted when their uncle died fighting in the war. |
| 50:38:00 | Edward Murphy vo, cont.Edward Murphy at window ext | Edward Murphy One doesn't know all sorts of turbulences are going to happen. That a war's going to come, Uncle Jack is going to get killed |
| and then six months later, his father dies because he couldn't get over it, | ||
| Edward Murphy sync iv | ||
| 50:54:00 | Kilmain details grave and church | Now Lucy and Betty were left at Milford, without any men. |
| Horses clopping through wood | ||
| 51:04:00 | I remember grandfather's funeral. He lay in the house for two or three days while all | |
| Edward Murphy vo | the locals came and visited him in the drawing room. And then he went to Killmain on the back of a cart pulled by Freckles, his favourite horse, the horse that did all his ploughing. | |
| 51:26:00 | Fiona Murphy vo, Richard Murphy,Edward Murphy on cart, fade out to photo of Betty | Fiona Murphy And then Betty heard that my grandfather was being promoted but onl if she went with him. And the War Office wouldn't allow the children to go too. So there was a stark choice to be made. She left the East Wing, sent the children to boarding schools in England, and abandoned the attempt to root her family in Ireland. She never lived there again. The separation, the disappoinEdward Murphyent and the turmoil, put her in hospital for three months. |
| 51:59:00 | Fiona Murphy vo cont. photo WM boat, WM takes oath, | But for William, the loneliness was over. His promotion led to him succeeding the former King of England, the Duke of Windsor, as Governor of the Bahamas. It would be the crowning moment of his career. |
| 52:13:00 | Richard Murphy vo, WM feathers | Richard Murphy He took the whole thing very seriously because he believed in the monarchy as he believed in God. There was God and then there was the King and then there was the Governor. |
| Richard Murphy sync Track 19 10.52.37.21 - 10.43.53.12 00.01.05.17 Thou Wilt Keep Him (Wesley) | People who were ambitious bought up their children to believe that to get on in the world you've got to leave Ireland. There is no future here. | |
| Richard Murphy vo Montage 20: 10.52.40.10 - 10.53.21.14, British Movietone: Convoy, Pathe: Convoy and Movietone: Dr Temple Enthroned | You'd go to seed. It's a poor country, you'd be wasting your time. | |
| 52:44:00 | Fiona Murphy vo montage cont. | Fiona Murphy Their parents packed their trunks, said their farewells, and embarked on a convoy across the Atlantic. |
| Christopher and Richard were already back at Canterbury. | ||
| 52:57:00 | Richard Murphy vo, Richard Murphy walks up stairs, arrives in birth room, looks out of window, children | Richard Murphy In April 1942 Archbishop Temple was enthroned at Canterbury. Our parents heard the BBC broadcast with us singing on the ship |
| 53:23:00 | My feeling about the place began to change when we had left it or when our mother had left it and the East Wing seemed less and less to belong to us. I did feel the loss. We had had this wonderful life and to be deprived of that was a shock. | |
| M, then Mary Cookson pic white sands, Mary Cookson wedding pic, Mary Cookson | Mary Cookson I did feel I needed to escape Fiona. I was sitting on those stairs there thinking I wish I could go to art school or university or something but I'm not doing anything. I either had to go and join up in the army or the navy or get married. Fiona Murphy - and your mother? Oh couldn't get me married quick enough. She wanted me married. And that was it and that was a good suitable marriage. There wasn't any alternative. My mother was going abroad. There was no home for the children, there was nothing. Grandfather was dead. And having got married I had a home for everyone to come to. | |
| 54:32:00 | Edward Murphy vo Milford façade shot in motion Edward Murphy sync andEdward Murphy sitting by door | Edward Murphy We were sent to school in England. Mother was sent off with father, which was a big blow to my life, because now I was left with no parents which was a big blow to my life because now I was left with no parents. She put the fun and glory of being a Governor's wife first. |
| Track 20 10.54.31.12 - 10.55.48.18 00.01.17.03 Stasis long | ||
| 54:58:00 | Edward Murphy looking out of the door, Elizabeth Hohler vo | Elizabeth Hohler She'd put my father first. But that was a terribly hard decision for my mother choosing between the lesser of two evils. |
| How do you decide what to do? Who are you going to be with? Who do you really owe your self to? Your parents, your husband, your children. They're all pulling in opposite directions. She liked service my mother. She wanted to carry on with her good work, she was an Empire builder. And she hadn't got a big enough canvas in Ireland, or wouldn't have had, to work on. | ||
| Elizabeth Hohler sync BM photo Elizabeth Hohler voEdward Murphy by grave/headstone | ||
| Richard Murphy and Christopher Murphy in hall | ||
| 55:54:00 | Richard Murphy and Christopher Murphy looking at portrait | Richard Murphy Who do you think that is Chris? Blue Lady? Christopher Murphy The daughter of galloping Major and I taught myself a song from the Blue Lady's song book. And I sang it, it went... |
| Richard Murphy Christopher Murphy rear, Richard Murphy reverse looking out of window, POV distant family picnic / Christopher Murphy/ Richard Murphy looking out of window, boy on bicycle down avenue with dog. Track 21a: 10.56.11.08 - 10.56.59.22 00.00.48.15 w't words piano a | (sings)/ mix to instrumental | |
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| 57:00:00 | Mary Cookson walks out of house Track 21b: 10.57.00.24 - 10.58.58.17 00.01.57.19 W't words piano b | Fiona Murphy Mary and her second husband looked after the whole family. She continues painting and exhibits in the North of England, where she lives near her daughter in Cumbria. |
| Fiona Murphy vo Carraigin | My father restored a thirteenth century castle in Co Galway, near Milford. He lived in six different countries and brought up six children. ... | |
| Fiona Murphy vo South Africa and Switzerland | Aged 70 Richard went to join his daughter in South Africa. He is now in Sri Lanka not far from Colombo where he lived as a child. He's still writing. | |
| At the end of the war, Liz rejoined her parents in Rhodesia where her father, now Sir William, was the governor general of the Central African Federation. She has since then lived in London, Singapore and Switzlnd | ||
| Market Fiona Murphy vo | Edward also followed his parents to Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, and after a lifetime farming there, has returned with his wife to Ireland where they grow and sell flowers. | |
| Johnny on Tractor Fiona Murphy vo | The Ormsby family remained in Ireland and at Milford Tom's great grandson is still farming the land. | |
| Fiona Murphy vo, Christopher Murphy and Fiona Murphy on avenue | I live in London, still imagining that I'm Irish. |