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I find it hard to believe that this is my last day at work.  Forty four years of teaching preceded by two years at the Church of Ireland training college in Kildare Street.  It’s been moved out of Dublin now to a rural location.

I remember so well the week I left home to travel to the big city. The war had been in progress for over a month and everyone was talking about the Battle of Mons, Lord Kitchener and the Kaiser.  It all went over my head.  I was so nervous of my new college and the Principal, Miss Granger, who had interviewed me. She was a Victorian tartar and believed that deportment, manners and a sound Christian faith mattered much more than your exam results.  I was regarded, correctly, as a poor hill-farmer’s daughter with, incorrectly, ideas above my station.  The woman was a ghastly snob, but was, as I found out later, a brilliant lecturer.

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