Date of Birth: 18th November 1939

Place of Birth: 3 St. Ita’s Terrace, Wexford

Date Interviewed: 6th March 2009

Summary: Pat Semple’s interview starts off in Wexford’s famous Bullring, then moves to St. Iberius Church on the Main Street, pays a brief visit to the place in St. Patrick’s Square where he went to school, and concludes in the Wexford Opera House. Pat points out the house he lived in as a child overlooking the Pikeman statue in the Bullring and talks about his life as a Protestant growing up in Wexford town. In St. Iberius church he returns to what was the family pew and names other families and shows where each would sit. Pat tells how the central aisle in St. Iberius was created to accommodate a wedding request from a bride’s father. Leaving the Main Street he brings us up Rowe Street and along High Street to the location of his old school. Looking down on the rooftops from the vantage point of the Opera House Pat recalls an infamous Wexford murder. He also refers to his decision to become a Church of Ireland minister and his experiences working in Belfast during years of civil unrest and violence – experiences he has chronicled in his published memoirs.