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All school holidays and occasional weekends were spent in my grandmother's house on Main Street Dungiven. When I was only a small baby, my parents agreed to leave me with my grandparents and Aunt Rosalin, for a week, to give my mother a bit of a…

A few of us in my class were chosen to sit the eleven plus examination which would qualify us for places in grammar schools. There was a lot of time, effort and energy expended both by Miss Malone and by ourselves. We also learned dressmaking and…

The teachers whom I recall were Miss Bernadette Higgins, Miss Una McGuinness, Miss Eileen Murphy, Miss Rosaleen McPhillips, Miss Peggy Loughran, Miss Kitty Byrne, Miss Tessa McManus, Mrs McMullan, Miss Patsy Malone who ruled with a rod of iron and…

I went to St Columban's Primary School in Glenview Street. My first teacher was Miss Margaret McCaughan from Ballycastle. She was a lovely lady and very kind to us. We were fifty six children in the class, as a lot of children had been born in the…

I made my First Confession on 26th May and my First Holy Communion on 28th May 1953 in Sacred Heart Church, where we went every Sunday and often daily for Mass. I was confirmed there as well, with Cecilia on 27th February 1956. Uncle Willie's wife,…

An event on 8th October 1946 changed life irrevocably for some folk. Some may say it was for the better, but no doubt there are a few, who might wish the change had not happened. This world would never be the same again. I was born in 50 Rose vale…

Another interest I had was our local community centre. A group of people got together to turn the oldest school building at Lislea into a community centre. Everyone worked together to clean and repaint it. The old stove which straddled the two…

I've always loved driving. I started hen I was 18 and got my licence when I was 19. I used to drive my sister's mini clubman before I got a car of my own to travel to work in. My first car was a wee second hand Datsun 100A. I drove it for a few…

I've always liked traditional Irish music and during my nurse training days some of my friends and myself went to Fleadhs on our holidays in Clare and Donegal. There was one evening my friend Patricia Murray had heard that the Chieftains were playing…

On 4th September, 1991 my mother died very suddenly even though she had been ill from the Springtime. Ironically, that was on the same date on which my father died fifteen years earlier in 1976.We moved to Fairgreen Park in Keady the next year when…