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Funeral
Remembrances: A Young Irishman at Sir Winston’s Funeral
05
Oct
2023
1
By CHARLES LYSAGHT
“Unlike many Irish children of my generation, I was brought up to admire Winston Churchill. My father, although nationalist enough, always uttered his name with reverence. He believed that he had saved us as well as the British from the evil Hitler. Churchill’s defiant orations, received at home in those perilous years on our crackling Telefunken wireless, had made a deep impression.”