Joan Daly was born near Killarney in County Kerry. She began general nurse training in Whipps Cross London in the mid-1940s and qualified as an SRN. She continued to work in London for six months and then returned to nurse in Kerry until the early 1950s, when she took up nursing
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Muriel Dalton was born in Cork City in the late 1920s. She took her first job in the office of Cork Ironworks in 1945 and remained in this position until her marriage in 1949. She subsequently returned to work as a sales assistant in a Cork City paint and decorating shop in 1975,
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Eileen Coughlan was born in Midleton in East Cork in 1918. In 1936 she took a job as a shop assistant in the Savoy Cake Shop in Cork City and remained in that post until she married in 1941. Length: 23:02
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Dympna Collins was born in Bantry, West Cork, in 1931. She received a scholarship to complete her secondary school education and subsequently trained as a primary school teacher in Limerick. Dympna worked as a teacher in Cork City from 1950 until her marriage in 1955. She re-ente
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Kathleen Cranitch was born near Fermoy in Cork in 1912 and trained as a primary school teacher. She worked as an assistant teacher in Dublin between 1936 and 1941, after which she moved to Kilmurry National School in Kilworth, County Cork and took on the duties of Principal until
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Maura Canty was born in 1927. Her first job was as a cash girl in Roche’s Stores, Cork in December 1944. She subsequently took a job as a wages clerk in an office on the South Mall in Cork and in 1946 secured a post as a telephonist in the Department of Posts and Telegraphs Telep
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Margaret Twomey was born in Cork City in 1941 and grew up in the St. Luke’s area. She completed her Group Certificate at the age of sixteen and took a job as a sales assistant in McCarthy’s Paint and Decorator’s shop in Castle Street, Cork. After a few months she moved to an offi
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Elizabeth Shorten was born in 1925 and grew up in Clonmel, County Tipperary. She trained as a nurse in St. Andrew’s Military Hospital, London, qualifying in 1947. She was employed in different hospitals in England and she subsequently took up a position as a nursing sister with t
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Catherine Walshe was born in 1926, grew up in Macroom in County Cork and qualified as a civil engineer in 1949. She worked in this capacity for different engineering contractors until she married in 1953. Widowed in 1961, when she was four months pregnant with her fifth child, Ca
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Ena Russell was born in West Cork circa 1935 but was raised in Cork City. Upon finishing her Intermediate Certificate she took a summer job as a sales assistant in the Moderne and was subsequently employed as an office worker by Browne and Nolan publishers in Cork City from 1952
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Clare Ring was born in Dublin in 1928. She took her first job in 1945 as a telephonist in the central exchange in Dublin and after a few weeks she took a position in the Civil Service in the General Post Office. She held this post until she married in 1957 and relocated to Kerry
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Mary Taaffe who was born in County Tipperary, trained as a poultry instructress in the Munster Institute in Cork, and qualified in 1945. She worked in this capacity in counties Limerick and Cavan throughout her single life until she married in 1953. After being widowed in the lat
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