Where I lived in Eglinton, there was
an elderly man who I befriended
and Nat McGlinchey
or eleven when the American Eagle
he used to run errands for them
take their washing, collect eggs
They used to tell him stories and
And he got to know
And one day Bud Wolfe took off
in his plane, crashed it
near the village of Gleneely
from the Northern Ireland records.
All we had was claimed
and Gleneely like most little Donegal settlerments
consists of about four pubs and three shops at the side of a hill.
To get the full records we had to go down to the Irish
Army Records in Dublin
because there it transpired
the right and legal people.
If the plane crash in the Republic of
That would have went to the crash site
all the information on the crash,
as to where it was.
And really,
that my young daughter and I set off
And so let's at least head to Gleneely,
knock on a few doors and see what happens.
We called him to a filling station,
McLoughlin's filling station in Gleneely
And the lady behind the counter, Katy.
He was very hung over from a wedding
said she didn't know anything about it.
But I needed to meet a chap
and he would know.
And literally, he was the next person
He didn't know where he said the person
Martin Kearney
The next person into the shop
He says,
I'll come back here and a little more time
So one minute
The next minute,
at a hole and said, that's the crater
that the plane caused when it crashed.
And my daughter Grace at that point
And she's a real mudlark
She can come and ...if she can come back
covered in mud the better. She ferreted around
and pulled out a few parts of what
So I was able to entering the producer to
It's a mile out
on a slope.
And according to the geological record,
which doesn't
but that then at least
