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| Voices
from the Camps |
| Mrs.
Clancy, by Bill Meek (1987) |
| Catalina
Clancy (née Sills), born on 3 May 1889, daughter of
John Sills and Kathleen Mullin. At the time of the interview
Mrs. Clancy was 99 years-old.
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My
father and mother was from Wexford, and they
worked their way up. |
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My
father was a... mm... worked by the day when
he came here first, and my mother worked in
Buenos Aires with Dr. Hennessy. |
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Then
they got married. Old Fr. Flannery is make
the matches with the Irish people. The Irish
women and the Irish men. |
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And
they went and worked their way up minding
sheep by the month. I went to St. Mary’s
[strict] school for four years... And then,
what did I do? |
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–And
you used to look after ______? –Then
I got a sweetheart! And got married to Joseph
Clancy. We had four children, Paddy, Odhran,
and Johnny. And Fr. Flannery used always put
Irish names on them. Odhran... |
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My
father worked for old Michael Brennan, minding
sheep. All the ups and downs. We had no way
of getting to Mass. We only got to Mass once
a year. |
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Old
Fr. Flannery used say Mass at Michael Brennan’s
estancia. And we only got to Mass once a year.
And to the sacraments. |
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The
Wexford people and the Westmeath, they never
could pull. They didn’t want their children
to mix up with the Westmeath. Tried to keep
them with the Wexford people. |
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