On that cold dry morning, it was refreshing to see the city appear from the darkness and the streetlights shut off for another day.
The view, no doubt, has changed substantially in the last century.
‘…..When I resumed, it was not at St Patrick’s but the North Monastery, run by the Christian Brothers – I cannot think why unless it meant that I should be out of Corkery’s class and back in Downey’s. Mother, I suspect, may have been influenced by her friendship with Mrs Busteed, whom she met regularly at Mass, for her brilliant son, who had gone to the North Monastery, had had his picture in the paper and was now at the University, and it would never have occurred to Mother that what had worked for him would not work for me. |