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Track 1: The recording was compiled in Kilcolman Rectory, Enniskeane, Co. Cork. Lilias Riekstins recalls the various parishes in which their grandfather ministered. Early memories of growing up at Riverstick. Track 2: Their mother, Frances Alicia was a member of the Gillman family from Woodbrook House, Dunmanway. She was a governess in Paris, and later in St Petersburg in Russia before the First World War. Track 3: Politics in the family, and family connections. Track 4: The sporting life in the countryside. Track 5: The various parishes at which their father was rector. Track 6: George Fairbrother discusses his law practice in Cavan town, and Lillias recalls joining the Land Army in England. Track 7: Stories about Riverstick and the community there. Henrietta Gillman, sister of Frances Alicia Gillman, and Pierre Marinovich, pupil of Frances Alicia, at Woodbrook House