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'Mrs Murphy's whistle'
If we were too long away from home or didn't go back for our lunch etc. my mother would blow a pea whistle which she had and believe me it was shrill and it could be heard by all the neighbours who would know it was Mrs. Murphy's whistle. After long…
'… the teacher Miss Mullholland was a very strict disciplinarian ... She would only have to appear on the village street and every child would disappear'
Margaret recounts her earliest childhood memory of going to school for the first time.