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When I was perhaps 27/28 I met a girl who was more sexually advanced. She would let you put your hand up her frock. I had never experienced this and the consequences were quite a shock to me. I decided after several bouts of this that perhaps I…

Finding a wife was a difficult business for me. I was super-sensitive and a denial hurt greatly. So pre-occupied were we all between the Boys' Club and the flat where we lived, talked, and partied, however innocently. I couldn't be frivolous,…

As a teenager during the war we cycled to Belcoo and Black Lion for butter and sugar. Black Lion was in the Republic of Ireland. As children we nick-named Black Lion as 'The Black'. Butter and sugar were rationed during the war. When aunts came to…

In 1944,I became a teenager. In those days it just happened. Nothing very exciting. Girls in general were not taught the facts of life. The country-side was a safe place to live,there was never any danger as were always in a crowd.On Saturday nights…

These are cards Mary Dynan made while in the Novitiate. She sent them home for Christmas 1953 and for her younger brother Alan's birthday.

A certificate received by Mary Dynan upon completion of swimming lessons in France.

A newspaper article which reports upon Mary Dynan's profession - the ceremony in which she professed her vows.

A drawing of Peter.

A Loveday Football Association banner for the Wandercup Football Tournament in Sept 1941.

The programme of the Union Castle Lion.