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'There was a variety of people but mostly Irish living there. Some had alcohol issues, depression, broken relationships etc.'
I took up my final job in St Eugene Court in Queens Park, London on 1st March 2005. I left it on 30th April 2011.This was a residential post and I had a flat as part of the deal. My work this time was to provide support for tenants with low support…
Tags: Care, community services, emigrants, Irish, services, social care
'That was in 1978 and to think how famous they are now!'
I've always liked traditional Irish music and during my nurse training days some of my friends and myself went to Fleadhs on our holidays in Clare and Donegal. There was one evening my friend Patricia Murray had heard that the Chieftains were playing…
Tags: Autograph, Chieftains, Fleadhs, Irish, Music
'The lovely fountain pen I got from Uncle Ben in Egypt'
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…