Archive (7 life histories found)
'The people of the Markets were the salt of the earth and I got to know many of them very well through their children.'
At the beginning of September I was assigned to St Malachy's Convent Primary School, Sussex Place where Sr. Ann McKeever had just been appointed principal, to succeed Sr. M Vincent Donnelly who had been a legend there. I was given a Primary Seven…
'The centre is still going strong'
Another interest I had was our local community centre. A group of people got together to turn the oldest school building at Lislea into a community centre. Everyone worked together to clean and repaint it. The old stove which straddled the two…
College of Mental Health Nursing Certificate
Tags: certificate, college, community, Mentally Ill, Nursing, training
Nursing Care of Mentally Ill Certificate
'My interest in Irish culture was also instrumental in building friendships'
My background has been in every way a plus or me. I love being Irish. When I taught in England - before the troubles broke out - we Irish nuns were loved and respected. At a later stage when Muredach and I were at the University in Keele at the…
Tags: community, Irish culture, religion, Values
'I am back as a little girl peeping out through the curtains, looking at the men staggering under the enormous drums, battering them until their wrists bled'
I suppose Cloughmills was a special place in that in the Northern Irish context, for most of the time, there were harmonious relations between the people. Our parish of Dunloy and Cloughmills had three centres of population. At one end was Dunloy,…
Tags: Catholic, community, drum, Marches, Orange march, Protestant