This is the story of the author evacuated in 1939 at the age of six
with his brother and sister from Sheffield in the North of England
to the safety of relatives in Cork in Southern Ireland and his
return to Britain in 1943. It ends on VE Night, 1945. Neil was a
practising hypnotherapist for much of his working life and on his
retirement revisited this period of his childhood seeking answers
to memories and flashbacks that had haunted him for more than sixty
years. He tells in his preface how this was achieved. The author
had an affinity with his Irish hosts and his four-year stay is not
without humour, as you would expect. But the incidents he recalls
include the firing of Cork's largest department store in 1942 and
providing intelligence that may have led to the torpedoing of the
SS Irish Oak in May 1943 by the German submarine U-607. Not yet
ten, he was escorted back to Britain on the orders of the Prime
Minister, de Valera. The story is certainly an emotional one, not
least because of the shooting down over occupied France early in
1944 of the boy's hero, Uncle Bill. You must decide whether this
little boy was an innocent used by the unscrupulous Republican
agent Finnegan, by Sister Ann of "the Mission," Stan of Short's
slaughter house, his wily cousin Clare who took his earnings for
dresses and his uncle who took it for drink. Or whether he rose to
the challenge of being separated from his parents at a very young
age in difficult times. It is a one-off story told by a lad growing
up too quickly. It is also one with dark undertones.
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