'We were free and easy once we went to our office on the outskirts of the city'

'We were free and easy once we went to our office on the outskirts of the city'

Maura recounts her time as a clerk and what she enjoyed about working.

Maura Corr

Trinity College Dublin

1965

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Maura Corr

Work and Employment

Life Story

Dublin

1960s

Work was pleasant with the people I worked with. We were free and easy once we went to our office on the outskirts of the city. Main office was in Abbey Street, where we converged in the morning. We were known as Telecom Communications, but in fact it was a bookmakers.Out in our own office we could hold conversations with the clients and learn about their families. When we were not busy in winter we could knit, read and do puzzles. Members of our family could come in and have a cup of tea.We carried cash with us for years but then as time passed it became too dangerous. Before there was little mugging or robbing. When I left in 1972, there was a threat there, so I wasn't too sorry to get out. But leaving the people I worked with was a wrench. Then when my son was born it was a new horizon.

Irish Research Council for Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences (IRCHSS)

Dr Kathleen McTiernan (Trinity College Dublin)

Dr Deirdre O'Donnell (Trinity College Dublin)