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Stories in Sound: A Week in the Life of My Granny

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19/02/2017

A Week in the Life of My Granny

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A 75 year old woman running her own farm has taken active retirement to a new level.

Hannah Quinn Mulligan helps out on the farm for a week, and learns what it takes to become a farmer from her 75 year old grandmother Catherine.

At 18 Catherine Quinn, left Ireland and emigrated to London where she married and brought up her family. However, she always had one eye fixed on home, and after nearly three decades working in London she invested in a farm and retired back home to Ireland. 

Now 75, she has taken active retirement to a new level, running the 'Tory Hill Herefords' a herd of pedigree cattle by herself and keeping horses, hens and geese. Her grand-daughter Hannah spends one of the most important week's of the year with her, as Catherine prepares for her annual cattle sale and TB herd test.



Producer: Hannah Quinn-Mulligan

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