David Thomson talks abour his memories of Woodbrook House, County Roscommon.
At his London home David Thomson talks about 'Woodbrook', a memoir of the time he spent as a young man tutoring Phoebe Kirkwood of Woodbrook House in County.Roscommon during the 1930s. The Kirkwood family came to Ireland as Cromwellian planters in the seventeenth century. Much of the Woodbrook land was sold to a golf club in 1946. The house itself was sold to the Maxwell family, the pre-Cromwellian owners of the property.
David Thomson outlines what he beleives Anglo-Irish families like the Kirkwoods might have done to avoid having to sell their homes.
This edition of 'Only Connect' was broadcast on 30 January 1975. The presenter is Cathal O'Shannon.
RTÉ Guide Article on 'Woodbrook', published 3 October 1986
