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Title:	Irish Life and Lore Dublin South County Collection 2: Margaret Lennox
Authors:	O'Keeffe, Maurice Lennox, Margaret
Keywords:	Ballsbridge Blueshirts Civil War Clontarf Guinness's Irish culture Irish language Leverett and Fry's midwife Sandymount Sweepstakes 1916
Issue Date:	2010
Description:	Oral history interview. Margaret Lennox, nee Smyth, (born 1913), was recorded at Orwell Lodge Nursing Home. Initially she recalls her early memories of life in Sandymount where she grew up. On Easter Monday 1916 she remembers her father lifting her up onto the railings outside the house so that she could listen to the gunfire in the city. Margaret's mother came from Galway. She was a teacher and very involved in the promotion of Irish culture and the language. Margaret's father worked as a clerk in Guinness's. When Margaret left school she worked as a bookkeeper in a grocers in Ballsbridge, and later in Leverett and Fry's in Sandymount. She chronicles the events of the civil war as they were related to her mother by her friend who worked as a midwife. Margaret married Hedley Lennox from Co.Down in 1942. He was an accountant, and she discusses his working days. The couple moved to Seafield Avenue, Clontarf where they reared their family. Margaret recalls the local street gangs in the city in the 1930s, the Blueshirts and their activities, and her family's employment with the Irish Sweepstakes. The length of this recording is one hour, two minutes and fifty seven seconds.
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10599/5525
Copyright:	Reproduced with kind permission of Maurice O'Keeffe of Irish Life and Lore. South Dublin Libraries does not own the rights to this audio recording. If you wish to print or reproduce this audio you must obtain the permission of Irish Life and Lore. See http://www.irishlifeandlore.com/
Appears in Collections:	Irish Life and Lore South Dublin County Collection Published Items

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