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Page 69
... Anne Boyle remembers similar queues in North Belfast : " A loaf was only tuppence ha'penny . People queued up at six o'clock in the morning at the City bakery up the Oldpark Road . I have seen kids all the way from Ardoyne , standing in ...
... Anne Boyle remembers similar queues in North Belfast : " A loaf was only tuppence ha'penny . People queued up at six o'clock in the morning at the City bakery up the Oldpark Road . I have seen kids all the way from Ardoyne , standing in ...
Page 71
... Anne Boyle concluded : 9 " I'll tell you this : we were nice and slim then ! We had nice figures because we didn't need to diet ! " More accurately , as the quotation from Frances Maguire at the start of this section pointed out , the ...
... Anne Boyle concluded : 9 " I'll tell you this : we were nice and slim then ! We had nice figures because we didn't need to diet ! " More accurately , as the quotation from Frances Maguire at the start of this section pointed out , the ...
Page 83
... Anne Boyle's recollection of one priest , a Father McAuley : " I remember him during the thirties when he got up and said to us to get up off your backsides and go out and do something your- selves . He said you can't expect God to come ...
... Anne Boyle's recollection of one priest , a Father McAuley : " I remember him during the thirties when he got up and said to us to get up off your backsides and go out and do something your- selves . He said you can't expect God to come ...
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