Cote
IE CA DL/6/26
Titre
A Servant’s Recollections of Ards House
Date(s)
- 22 July 1987 (Création/Production)
Niveau de description
Pièce
Étendue matérielle et support
1 p.; Clipping
Nom du producteur
(1615-2023)
Dépôt
Histoire archivistique
Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert
Portée et contenu
Copy clipping of an article on the experiences of Catherine McGarvey who in 1907 (aged 15) entered the service of Lady Ena Dingwell Stewart at Ards House. The article was published was published in the ‘Irish Press’ (22 July 1987). The article has lengthy recollections of her experiences as a servant to the Stewart-Bam family. It reads:
'All the time in Ards, the house staff were completely insulated from the outside world. Catherine only saw her parents at Sunday Mass in Doe Chapel, and then only for a few snatched seconds as she hurried back to the big house'.