Archive (13 life histories found)

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…

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…

A newspaper article about an Irish play that Rosemary wrote for a drama festival in Ulster.

A picture of Rosemary McCloskey who won a gold Gael Linn medal alongside her friend Liam Andrews who won a silver medal. The medals were presented in International Hotel, Belfast

School in St. Louis is mostly good memories. In Ballymena. Singing in the front hall with Sr. Marie Gertrude, playing around the huge rhododendron bushes which could become any place you wanted to imagine. My tenth birthday and the retreat. The…

I started school in Cloughmills Public Elementary School on my fourth birthday. I always felt my mother had taken her first legal opportunity to get me out of the way but she assures me that she felt like the mother in this poem, which was one that…

People of Antrim love their county and have written songs in its praise. The story goes that a man from Glendun was thinking of emigrating and he wrote a song in which he imagined what it would be like to be away. He made himself so sad that he…

I don't think, as a child, I would have been too surprised to 'meet a lochrey man' such as the one mentioned in Seosamh 0 Cathmhoill's song which was a favoriteMy father and mother were IrishAnd I am Irish too.I bought a wee fidil for…

Oft in the stilly night ere slumbers chain has bound meFond memories bring the light of other days around meOft in the Stilly Night is an appropriate song to start with, because in thinking about my childhood I have become conscious of many fond…

This picture shows one of the Irish groups with which Mary has been associated. Mary is seated in the front row, middle.