{"id":424894,"date":"2026-04-30T09:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T09:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/424894\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T09:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T09:12:09","slug":"actress-eileen-walsh-on-the-impact-of-finding-her-grandfather-dead-in-the-back-garden-when-she-was-six-and-rediscovering-her-family-in-new-rte-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/424894\/","title":{"rendered":"Actress Eileen Walsh on the impact of finding\u00a0her grandfather dead in the back garden when she was six, and rediscovering her family in new RTE documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nThere were rumours of guns buried in the garden after her grandfather\u2019s death, but actress Eileen Walsh discovered so much more in a new RT\u00c9 documentary\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Actress Eileen Walsh says there was a lot to unpack while she took part in the RT\u00c9 documentary 'Come To Your Census'. Photo: David Conachy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/564c6e90-2d03-4ede-9830-09949577be1c.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Actress Eileen Walsh says there was a lot to unpack while she took part in the RT\u00c9 documentary &#8216;Come To Your Census&#8217;. Photo: David Conachy<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cI\u2019m the youngest of six, and my job every evening was to go and get Granda and call him in for dinner. Sometimes he\u2019d be up in his room, and he was obviously very fervent, so he might be praying&#8230; or if not, then he would be inevitably down in the garden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There were rumours of guns buried in the garden after her grandfather\u2019s death, but actress Eileen Walsh discovered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2920,93,61,60,6992,6085],"class_list":["post-424894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-cillian-murphy","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-people-culture-magazine","tag-rte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}