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'My Uncle Vincent and His wife Aunt Maura came to visit me in Waterford too, and that was the last time I saw him alive.'
We went on a week's holidays to Ardmore to the Cappoquin holiday house and it was a great break for us by the sea. We had a lot of freedom there and the weather was mostly fine and so we had lovely walks to the round tower and other local beauty…
'There was no time for idleness. In fact so tight was this schedule that I asked her when were we supposed to go to the loo!.'
On arrival at Mercy Novitiate, Summerland, Ozanam Street, Waterford, I was met by a few young novices, who took my bags and helped me unload the car. Because I was wearing the black veil they thought I was a professed sister and were ever so helpful.…
'I had never been further south than Dublin and this was a big adventure for me to go so far away.'
During my first year as a postulant in the Convent of Mercy, Crumlin Road, I taught in St Malachy's Primary school on the New Lodge Sr M. Louis Donaghy and Sr.Josephen McAteer were working in Star of the Sea school on Hallidays Road at that time and…