“Trainee Primary Teachers out for the day from Carysfort College: 28 September 1947.

From the left:
Mum (Eileen Quinn (nee Sheehy) Dingle and Sutton), Mary Moylan (nee O’Connor), Killarney and Walkinstown and Hannah Sheehan from Tralee.

Mum was only 18 in this photo. At 14, the three met at a teachers’ preparatory college in Colaiste Ide, Dingle. Mary and Mum remained friends until Mum passed in 1997.

(1947)

Submitted by Ruth-Blandina Quinn