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I got on very well in the college and was quite happy there making many friends. However, one morning I was called to a meeting for new lecturers.It was fine until the person who was in charge of student welfare told us about the wonderful service…

It then became apparent that the salaries of the other two sisters were inadequate to support a third person-me! I decided to look for paid work. The Franciscan mission work was not working out very well for me and I was very frustrated with wasting…

Dromahair the place of my birth is a small village nestling between small hills and mountains in the County of Leitrim bordering the County of Sligo. It is a very historical area, as it boasts the ruins of a famous Abbey and three Castles. It was…

We came to Limavady at 1970 and eventually I settled down when we bought our own house at 1973. Limavady people were very friendly and helped me in so may ways to setting up a home. At this stage the children were growing up and started the local…

Going out to work was a great excitement for me. I was a housewife in most of my early part of life, looking after children and doing household chores. When the kids grew up and started the Grammar School, then I got my freedom, had my own car and…

My position on being sent to the Dublin sales office was Gopher. I had to go for the uncle's car and bring it to the door, I had to deliver all the Dublin sales and always have a gallon of paraffin to light the smelly paraffin stoves in the two…