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Mealda Hall

Mealda Hall


21st April 1926

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Mealda Hall

"The Reverend Mother was horrified and the teaching nun began to cry…what are we going to do?"

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Mealda takes us back to 1926 and to her childhood school. On this day she would get some news that would leave her smiling while others cried…

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Name: Liz Weir
Date: 09/03/2008
Comment: The wonderful Mealda! A fine tradition bearer and inspiration to all storytellers in ireland!



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Mealda Hall
Mealda with Days Like This contributor Liz Weir
Mealda with Gloria Honeyford
Mealda with Eamonn Pheonix in the O'Neill centre , February 1991
16 year old mealda at the back, Dad James, Mother Brigid and sister Rose-Olice RHS
Mealda aged 17 in 1938 appearing in the local paper on St Patricks day


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