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Our leisure time was all spent with the Legion as well as attending meetings and doing our two hours Legion work on the bookbarrow on O'Connell Bridge we had plenty of outings. On St Patrick' day we usually started our hiking. We climbed most of…

At seventeen I got the Civil Service exam and came to Dublin. I started work in the GPO on the 8th August 1949. I stayed with my Aunt in Blackrock for a few months. I remember having to memorise different areas on the route in and out of the city.…

The only time Auntie got mad with me was when Olive O'Hara a girl from school and a few other class mates decided to row up to the Holy Well to do the Stations. We had to go up the river and then skirt a bit of the lake. I wouldn't mind but I was…

Dessie had a bad accident and our grandfather took him out to live with him. Dessie had the highest regard for him. Even though he was living on the farm he would come into our house and him and Frank were like brothers. I'm sure they got up to…

A newspaper article about an Irish play that Rosemary wrote for a drama festival in Ulster.

Rosemary McCloskey's teacher's certificate which was awarded to her by St Mary's College of Education, Belfast

A picture of Rosemary McCloskey taken with her school friends, Reenie Cosgrave and Mary Clarken, taken at the back of St Dominic's High School

A picture of Rosemary McCloskey who won a gold Gael Linn medal alongside her friend Liam Andrews who won a silver medal. The medals were presented in International Hotel, Belfast

A picture of Rosemary McCloskey with her high school camogie team. Back L-R: Kathleen McHugh, Rosemary McCloskey, Maire Delaney, Mary Martin, Geraldine Smith, Marie McCann. Front L-R: Maura Magee, Angela McMahon, Eileen McGrogan, Cecilia McCloskey,…

A postcard of Falls Road as it was during Rosemary McCloskey's school days in St Dominic's High School