'We had plenty of boyfriends in the Legion'

'We had plenty of boyfriends in the Legion'

Margaret remembers her boyfriends in the Legion of Mary.

Margaret McLoughlin

Trinity College Dublin

1951

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Margaret McLoughlin

Adolescence and Early Adulthood

Life Story

Dublin

1990s

Even though we were beside the dance halls in the Sq., we didn't go there much. My friend did meet her husband in the National Ballroom. We had plenty of boyfriends in the Legion. We went to plays, pictures and the opera. I had two boyfriends who wrote poetry to me. I still have one of them, which was written under a non de plume. I still don't know which of the boys who wrote it. On a Sunday afternoon, there was a dance in Conaghy's Hostel and we used to go there. I met a student there who was studying medicine and when we went to the Theatre Royal he used to buy me a packet of Dolly Mixtures.

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

Dr Kathleen McTiernan (Trinity College Dublin)

Dr Deirdre O'Donnell (Trinity College Dublin)