Stories that should get a book/movie deal

My grandparents luved next door and we’re landlords to and supporters of the De Valera family. Eamonn de Valera’s Birth cert was kept under the run on one of the steps of the stairs of my grandparents’ house. When Dev was awaiting his fate in prison, my grandfather & Mrs De Valera went out pushing a pram during curfew. In the pram was the birth cert, and I think one of the de Valera babies (or maybe a doll, can’t recall exactly what my I’m told me), and the walked the quarter mile or so to hand the cert to Frank Aiken who was waiting outside the American Embassy. A little footnote in Irish history. It would make a short film. I have already contacted RTE about it as an idea for the Doc on One.

At some stage my grandmother was almost killed by a bullet from the Black & Tans whilst standing outside the back of the house. Shot was fired from a laneway, and my mother showed me the bullet hole which was still visible when the house came up for sale in the 90s. The current owners, a lovely family, now know this interesting story associated with their house.