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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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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