I got on very well in the college and was quite happy there making many friends. However, one morning I was called to a meeting for new lecturers. It was fine until the person who was in charge of student welfare told us about the wonderful service…
My next job was a teaching post in BunScoil Bheann Mhadagain in Wyndham Street. This was another tough assignment and I left it after having been accused of hitting a child in my second year there. I had had enough of this Irish medium and to be…
I started work at the end of August. It entailed training women to work in Irish medium play groups and help them to attain the NVQ levels two and three. I did not realise how much hard work would be entailed in this job. I had groups in Belfast in…
Now I needed to find employment. Cecilia had been applying for jobs for me before I got home and I had a couple of interviews but was unsuccessful. One day I saw an advertisement for a tutor for a group called Altram, which had just been set up, in…
Dessie had a bad accident and our grandfather took him out to live with him. Dessie had the highest regard for him. Even though he was living on the farm he would come into our house and him and Frank were like brothers. I'm sure they got up to…
I more or less worked whenever the opportunity presented itself and, when I did stop, it was like any other day, because there were always other activities and interest for me to pursue.
In April, 1961 - just before my 16th birthday - my father opened his own retail business. I went in to help in the shop after school, on Saturdays and during that year's summer holidays. I never went back in September. I just loved working in the…
When I think of my years at secondary school (no free education then) they were only the beginning of my adult education. But I would have liked to continue because I was open to learning and would have been challenged to try and reach my…
Work was pleasant with the people I worked with. We were free and easy once we went to our office on the outskirts of the city. Main office was in Abbey Street, where we converged in the morning. We were known as Telecom Communications, but in…
