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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 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…