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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Photograph from day of interview. Maura Duffy seated outside at her home.
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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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Alice Delea was born in Cork City in 1937. She began work as an apprentice dressmaker in 1952 but left this position in 1953. In 1955 she took a post as a domestic worker in a household in Cork City and after a few months left to take a job as a presser in a dry cleaning company.
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Bridie Dunne was born in County Limerick in 1929. She worked on her parents' farm between 1940 and 1944 and then took a position as a domestic worker in County Limerick between 1944 and 1945. Subsequently she returned to work with her parents until her marriage in 1948. Following
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Maura Duffy was born in 1922 in Limerick City and began her working life in a Tait's clothing factory in Limerick City in 1934. She worked in the factory for ten years as a timehand and a brusher. Following her marriage in 1944 she combined motherhood with work in her husband's c
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Joan Harold was born in County Limerick in 1916. She was employed as a clerical worker in the Department of Industry and Commerce Office in County Limerick and in Limerick County Council between 1934 and 1946, when she left her post in order to marry. Joan returned to the workfor
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