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BACK IN THE DAY: The Southern Star's celebration of West Cork nostalgia

January 15th, 2024 7:00 AM

By Southern Star Team

This week’s picture was taken in the late 1950s, and captures a group at Rosscarbery Convent. Most of the class has been identified. Back: Nellie Santry, Kitty Harte, Mary O’Mahony, Breda O’Driscoll, Nellie May Collins, Maureen Hayes. Middle: Kitty Shanahan, Mary Joe Keohane, Patsy Hennessy, Patricia O’Regan, (first name missing) Hughes, Margaret Hennessy and Winnie Kingston. Front: Annie Collins, Maura McCarthy, Alice Knobbs, Nan O’Sullivan, Philomena McCarthy, Susie Kingston, Eileen Murray, Margaret Collins. Do you know the child in the picture? Drop us a line.

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THIS week’s picture was taken in the late 1950s, and captures a group at Rosscarbery Convent. Most of the class has been identified.

Back: Nellie Santry, Kitty Harte, Mary O’Mahony, Breda O’Driscoll, Nellie May Collins, Maureen Hayes.

Middle: Kitty Shanahan, Mary Joe Keohane, Patsy Hennessy, Patricia O’Regan, (first name missing) Hughes, Margaret Hennessy and Winnie Kingston.

Front: Annie Collins, Maura McCarthy, Alice Knobbs, Nan O’Sullivan, Philomena McCarthy, Susie Kingston, Eileen Murray, Margaret Collins.

Do you know the child in the picture? Drop us a line.

Meanwhile, reader Geraldine O’Brien Bevan has emailed to say that our recent photo of the Leap v Myross Wood football match ‘was fantastic to see’. She added: ‘My dad James (Jim) O’Brien RIP and formerly of Ballyvireen is the man standing in the back row, last man on the right.’

READERS: If you want to share your memories, send us old photos, film or video and pictures of memorabilia that may be of wider interest by email to: [email protected]

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