Corporal punishment was widely in use. I can never understand why I should be punished for getting the wrong answer. If the teacher had been doing his/her job properly, I would have understood the question better.
There was always a dog in my Granny Carlin's house and of course lots of animals in Granny McGovern's in the country. The strange thing was that my mother wouldn't allow a pet in the house.
From a very early age I was a sports fanatic - everything from Gaelic football to cricket. We played whatever was in season. I loved reading and tried stamp collecting, but I became bored with it very quickly.
I loved going to stay with my Granny McGovern who lived in the country. I suppose it was the freedom of being able to run through the fields. We had lots of new friends there. They called us 'the Townies'.
We didn't have a lot of toys. We spent as much time as possible playing outside. I do remember a spinning top and a blackboard and easel, which came with a carton of coloured chalk. One of the best presents I remember was when my brother and I got…
My main memory of my childhood was that it was happy. I was the eldest in the family and I had one brother and two sisters. There was only six years between my youngest sister, Breidge and myself. I believe that, because we were born so close…
We had holidayed all over the world - on the way back and forward to Australia we visited Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, Thailand, Sri Lanka and we had one stop over of a few hours each in Bombay and Muscat - that was enough. We…
I am most proud of my loyalty to my friends. Even though I have travelled far from Cloughmills P.E.S. I am still in touch with the girl who sat in the same desk. I am proud to get indications from people I taught that I had influenced them for the…
I think the flow of my life is highly untypical. Out of all the girls who attended my boarding school since its foundations in 1923, I was one of only about 20 who decided to join the religious life in the St. Louis Congregation. While the majority…
I have changed residence at least 20 times in my life. That has obviously had some effect on me. I like to think that unlike the proverbial rolling stone, I have gathered a lot of the moss of experience and friendship as I travelled the world. My…
