Archive (4 life histories found)
'One day I saw an advertisement for a tutor for a group called Altram, which had just been set up.'
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…
Tags: Car, Gaelic, Irish Language, work
'She married Paddy Clarke who was a taxi driver and who was shot dead in their house in Rosemount Gardens, having been 'fingered' by a neighbour.'
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…
'There was not anything particularly Gaelic about the curriculum in the school when I was there, though we did sing some Irish songs'
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…
Tags: Education, Gaelic, Gaeltacht, Irish Language, school
Members of the Irish Language class in Rostrevor
Tags: Gaelic, Irish Language