An Irish Sojourn « John Strawn

Edmund grew up near the northern tip of Donegal, in Inishowen, speaking Irish as his first language, one of nine children of a widowed mother. His father drowned in the sea when Edmund's youngest brother was a babe in arms. .... The hotel was commissioned as a hospital afresh, and the courses were converted into a Royal Air Force flying school. It is thought that as many as 200 died at Turnberry, and the heavier aircraft and machinery of the Second World War damaged the ...