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My vocation began with a bathtowel......! I used to drape it around my head after a bath to see what I’d look like as a nun!!! The thought of becoming a Sister came and went like the leaves on the trees. Then when I was in Secondary School, I took a liking to the Sisters, but never thought I could enter with them.
When I completed Secondary School, I did the Civil Service Exam and began working in the Civil
Service Commission, O’Connell Street. Life was sweet now; I had a job, money and my own bicycle!
The world was mine and vocation to Religious Life went squarely into the background.
I played camogie and tennis; went swimming and cycling; and took part in plays in the Abbey Theatre.
Together with Áine Ní Cheanáin, Principal of John the Baptist National School in Clontarf,
I produced Padraig Pearse Plays with the national School Children for radio. |
The years passed quickly and the murmur of vocation began to make itself heard. I was 26 years old when I was asked to play a Camogie match in Cork. Combined Universities were playing and they were short a player. Off I went to Cork and having obtained the permission of my parents, I visited the Convent of the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Apostles in Cork. I made arrangements to join the following August. Once a date was fixed, I made up my mind to enjoy life to the full for the remainder of my time. I went to the triple Crown Rugby match, Wales versus Ireland , in 1948 in Belfast. I was lucky not to have been arrested as I travelled with the Clontarf Gang supporting Karl Mullan, who all went wild when Ireland won! As I had never been to the dogs, I went to Shelbourne Road for a night, just a few days before the trip to Cork. There were three dogs in a race, one named Africa Iris. I put my money on her – she was supposed to be useless!! But the two good dogs had mishaps and Africa Iris sailed to victory! That was my last fling before entering the Missionary Sisters. I then spent 30 years in Nigeria, 2 in Bethlehem, 1 in England and almost 20 in the West of Ireland. Thank God I have no regrets.
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