‘I didn’t have the language for it’ – Eileen Walsh on the impact of finding her grandfather dead in the back garden when she was six

‘I didn’t have the language for it’ – Eileen Walsh on the impact of finding her grandfather dead in the back garden when she was six

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At the bottom of the garden, the little girl saw the wellies first. Eileen Walsh was six, maybe seven, and had already checked the usual places.