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... lived all the time . Despite these lapses , however , I was selected to serve Mass for Doctor Collier , Bishop of Ossory , whenever he visited the con- vent ( which was about twice a year ) and I was trained to act as waiter at the ...
... lived all the time . Despite these lapses , however , I was selected to serve Mass for Doctor Collier , Bishop of Ossory , whenever he visited the con- vent ( which was about twice a year ) and I was trained to act as waiter at the ...
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... although most of us had a favourite soccer team , based on which area of the city it came from . Mine was James ' Gate , because my mother lived in James ' Street then . SUNDAY WALKS AND THE ANNUAL RETREAT On Sundays we dressed 125.
... although most of us had a favourite soccer team , based on which area of the city it came from . Mine was James ' Gate , because my mother lived in James ' Street then . SUNDAY WALKS AND THE ANNUAL RETREAT On Sundays we dressed 125.
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... side , and the Grand Canal on the south . Dublin then had an unenviable reputation for its large slum areas . Probably most of its population in the 1930s lived in tenement houses , sad wrecks that had once been 171 20 Dublin in the 1930s.
... side , and the Grand Canal on the south . Dublin then had an unenviable reputation for its large slum areas . Probably most of its population in the 1930s lived in tenement houses , sad wrecks that had once been 171 20 Dublin in the 1930s.
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