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Suffice it to say that I worked in Drumoghill from 1st February 1972 until around June of that year. I spent that summer at home in Brookvale Avenue and was not very happy at all. I had no job and was signing on the dole. On Bloody Friday I was in…

That was an unforgettable summer. I stayed at Teach Shighle Bhili, Toin na Bhaile, with Cissie O'Donnell RIP, and her son Vincent (who later became head master of the primary school in Frosses in Co Donegal)and another eight or so students. We had…

It was during my years at St Dominic's that I developed a great love for the Irish language. I believe this was partly due to the good teachers we had for this subject. We had Miss Clare Grant from Rathfriland who subsequently became Sr M Eusebius OP…

I will always remember my first day in St Dominic's. I wanted to do French and domestic science, but instead because of the grades I got in the examination, I was put into Form 1A where Latin and Science were on the program, and not what I wanted. I…

I recall one bright summer evening when I was about thirteen, my mother, sister Eilish and myself watching my brother Aidan who was about seventeen at the time heading off to a Carnival about three miles up the road to hear Roy Orbison. I wouldn't…

At age fifteen/sixteen I went with my sister and our friends to guest teas and small local dances ran by football clubs. The guest teas consisted of tea and sandwiches and other savoury items plus cakes, buns etc and after the food was eaten the…

After primary school I attended The Sacred Heart Intermediate school in Armagh for a year and passed the review examination which meant I could go on to the Grammar of the Sacred Heart the following year. My best friend Leontia Nugent did the same…

Even though we were beside the dance halls in the Sq., we didn't go there much. My friend did meet her husband in the National Ballroom. We had plenty of boyfriends in the Legion. We went to plays, pictures and the opera. I had two boyfriends who…

We didn't go much to the dance halls even though we were surrounded with the in Parnell Sq. We did attend the afternoon dance in Conaghies on a Sunday. It was there I met Kevin who was a medical student. We went out for a while. We would go to…