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'At 30 years of age I finally started a career'
After I qualified,I obtained my first job. One of our lecturers told me of a job in the Isle of Man. I applied and my first job as weaving manager April1948,for the Manx Tweed Manufacturing Co. they had pedal looms .At 30 years of age I finally…
'There was no music in the workplace and talking was forbidden, hence the girls worked very hard for an hour and then went to the toilets for a smoke'
In the 1921 the Gallagher family set up a shirt factory in Lifford (Donegal), having had an involvement in shirt-making in Strabane from about 1888. The Strabane business had petered out, lost by grandfather Paul Gallagher in the late 1920s as he…
'I had to give my wages into the running of the house '
My first job was a Clerical Officer in the Antrim County Court House,Crumlin Road,Belfast. I was paid Σ8 a month. I had to give my wages into the running of the house. My mother gave me 2/6 per week pocket money. My friends from work…
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