

Ursuline Convent, Waterford, but withdrawn from school to nurse her mother, who suffered from rheumatroid arthritis, in 1945, ultimately sharing a bedroom with her suffered the death of her father, Dec. Kathleen Farrell, in whose house Charles Kerins (IRA Chief-of-Staff) was arrested, telling her of his brave death by hanging, Dec. Waterford, the only child of a local librarian and his wife, with grandparents who were politically active in 1916 and after, as were her own parents - her father being jailed for possession of rifle in the Civil War his parents having met in Poland, as solitary travels she was taught to swim by her father on the Blackwater and swam independently there during early teen-age the family was accustomed to listening to classical music with family on BBC Third Programme she planned to cycle to India at age of ten on receiving an atlas and a second-hand bicycle received a letter from Dr.
