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Post by anncu7hane on Feb 9, 2010 23:36:13 GMT
Miss Grahm was also known as the duck by the girls in the sister's mess, I worked there for about two year's, I worked with Babbie & Nickey Houlihan Phillis O' Brien & a girl from Athgarvan, one day we were on the late shift so Babbie & Myself were on afternoon tea for the matron's. Babbie & myself used to take a short break we would get out through a window off the cloke room we would sit under the window. Nickie decided to teach us a lesson she threw a big pot of cold water over us our clothes & hair were drowned, we still had to face the duck, we found two overall's took the clothes off put them on the boiler, the boiler did not have a press to hide it, we tried to hide our clothe's with tea towel's,no way to dry the hair, Ilooked at Babbie & said our job's are finished, in walk's the duck to tell us what she wanted to eat for her break,she looked at us asked about the clothes on the boiler,then she asked me did i wash my hair i said yes miss then she said i supposed ye washed the clothes to we both went yes miss,then she wanted to know where were we going that night, we said we had dates after work at the Curragh Picture house,as she was going out she look back and said we would be better off to leave the men alone,and dont put those clothes on wet. I dont ever remember her saying anything out of the way to the girl's in the sisters mess.We moved from under the window after that Cheers Ann Delahunt Culhane
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Post by kathyo on Feb 10, 2010 10:52:09 GMT
hi rose opps............i meant constipated and i remember on my communion day my new shoes were killing me.and my mam giving me a clatter because i said they were all right when she bought them regards kathyo
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Post by maura kearney on Feb 10, 2010 17:01:00 GMT
hi Ann your ma did not make my communion dress but she did make my wedding dress september 1974
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Post by annemcnamara on Feb 10, 2010 22:00:19 GMT
Well Maura, thats lovely to hear my mam made your wedding dress would you be willing to give Matt a photo of your wedding day so we can all get a look at you and the dress......please thank you, Anne
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Post by Matt McNamara on Feb 10, 2010 22:10:31 GMT
Hi All On the subject of the Families Hospital, all of you will no doubt recognise this statue of Our Lady which if my memory is correct was displayed inside the main door of the Families Hospital. As a youngster I was always afraid of the serpent at her feet, like the statue, so life like. Thanks to Joey Kelly for taking the snap. Matt
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Post by andybrennan on Feb 10, 2010 22:22:19 GMT
Matt
I felt the same about that serpent, the statue was a thing of beauty untill you got to her feet.
I do remember when awaiting my turn for injection ,sewing ect I would stand as far away as possible from it.
Andy
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Post by kellquinn on Feb 10, 2010 22:55:26 GMT
Hi Matt and all. The statue is now housed in the Oratory of the Main Hospital. Many times as a young lad I often stood and prayed really hard at the feet of this statue when it was in the Families, particularly when there was a few stitches or needles to be had, Ouch!. As a kid I had a morbid fear of the dreaded needle and as I said before many's the time the Badger, Big Mary Ward and sometimes my Da! would have to sit on me to receive same. Perhaps it stemmed from the time I stuck the piece of chalk up my nose, when in High Infants, just to get out of school, four weeks they tried unsuccessfully to get that out using a yoke like an Icing Spreader and was it torture! not worth the effort eventually as I sneezed one day and out it popped, and certainly not worth the effort in trying to dodge school. The fears then, don't even bother me now as I have become a real hero. Ouch! Regards to all and ouch again JKelly
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Post by MAURA kearney on Feb 10, 2010 23:08:28 GMT
HI ANN iwill get apicture if one of the family has a coloured picture i moved house last year and all my photoalbums went missing i didint mind my album going missing but the ones of my daughter and son ireallymiss idont have any baby photos to compare with my grandchildren. MAURA k.
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Post by rose5mcdonaghtce on Feb 10, 2010 23:26:21 GMT
How many babies being brought home, did that statue look down on I wonder, and how many women looked up at it praying for a quick delivery on their way down to have the babies, prayers said as they passed by on a stretcher going over to the big hospital for surgery. Kids fearing the dreaded needle, or a dressing being changed, the plaster coming off was hell.
Rose.
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Post by annemcnamara on Feb 10, 2010 23:28:06 GMT
Hi Maura, Thanks for that, black and white or colour would suffice I'm sure you were beautiful on your special day My mam made so many Communion, Confermation, Bridesmaids and Wedding dresses it would be lovely for all to see the talent she had what a brilliant pair of hands she had also. Cheers, Anne.
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Post by andybrennan on Feb 10, 2010 23:30:44 GMT
Rose
that statue gazed down on countless faces of all ages as they in turn gazed upwards
Andy
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Post by Matt McNamara on Feb 10, 2010 23:43:33 GMT
Hi All
I remember when I was about 12 and cracking may head on the ground after falling off a bicycle and running home to my mother seeing double, obvious suffering from mild concussion, with a huge egg on the back of my head. I was in a panic not to mention my Mother and Father anyhow I was rushed by car to the Families Hospital at about 8 O’Clock in the evening only to find that the Doctor on call was away up the Camp and was on route to see me.
Sitting in the hall still seeing the statue of Our Lady in double vision, there was a rush of Nurses on Duty down the corridor into what I presumed was the delivery room. Anyhow what seemed like a lifetime passed and you could hear the cries of a newborn baby coming down the corridor, one of the sisters came out to check on me and also informed us that the Camp had a new resident. I never found out who the baby was but always remember his or hers first cries.
The Doctor arrived soon after and sent me home for “observation” and to come back in the morning. Well at least I got the morning off school ;D
Matt
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Post by maryfarrell6 on Feb 11, 2010 0:22:27 GMT
Hi All, In the different posts about the Families Hospital that statue of our lady was described several times, and somewhere in all our distant memories we pictured it. But the reality of seeing it again I kid you not I had goosepimples all over and a shiver went down my spine She used to stand on a tall pedestal and as a kid your head nearly hit the floor as you craned backwards to look up into her beautiful serene face. We'd always been taught if you touched the statue after your prayer it would be answered, that was a real problem because at our age and height when we lowered our faces from hers we came face to face at our eye level with the serpent and I for one always recoiled and ran away put the fear of God in me. Judging by my reflex action on just seeing a picture of the statue that fear obviously still remains with me to the present day Very unnerving and scary Bye for Now MaryF
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Post by Maura kearney on Feb 11, 2010 20:39:19 GMT
I WORKED in the mess for a couple of years 1971 to75 best years ever i worked with MONO mcdonald Laurie Delaney kathleen KelliherVEronica Philips RIP AND A FEW more. Nelly Lynch was the Matron she was not so bad. My self and Mono could write a book on the time we had there. Maura Kearney.
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Post by andybrennan on Feb 11, 2010 20:42:32 GMT
Carmel
Write the book it can be previewed on the forum and any other members with a book inside them do the same, do it for yourselves not the best seller lists
Andy
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