A Ramble about Tallaght

  Born in a Biscuit Tin- The memoirs of Peter Nicholson   Peter Nicholson was born in Aungier Street, Dublin in 1940. His father had worked in near-by Jacobs Biscuits since he was 13 years of age.  In 1954 Peter followed his father into Jacobs at 14 years of age and gave just short of 40 years service to the company.  His mother was from a large Tallaght family, the Mullallys and Peter spent most of his childhood weekends and the school holidays out in Tallaght with his mother’s family. Both his mother’s and father’s family had been active in the Republican movement.  Peter moved with Jacobs out to Tallaght in the 1970s.     “I was born in a biscuit tin!  I was born in Aungier Street. My father’s father was from Baltinglass.  They moved into Dublin, beside Burdocks on Werburgh Street, and moved across the road to the first house on Castle Street.  His sister was in the Cumann na mBan, and his brother was in the Fenian Boys (Scouts).  My father went in as a messenger boy, into Jacobs