"Do you think, Sir, that Ireland should have joined the war against Germany?"
"I mean, Sir, that the married women in Ireland, like me Ma, and lots of other fellas' mothers have loads of babies and are always having to go into hospital to have them or have to feed them and wash them. The mothers have stacks of work to do all the time and they're always carrying babies around in their bellies or in their arms."
Patsy Fagan, growing up in Dublin...