Over My Shoulder

by MacMaster, Norma

• ISBN13: 9781856076050
• ISBN10: 1856076059
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-06-15
• Publisher: Columba Pr

Summary

Norma MacMaster grew up in Co Cavan in the 1940s and 50s as a Presbyterian. This is a simple, charming and very informative memoir of those times and of the experiences of a young girl growing up in a very close-knit family, in clear harmony with their neighbours and yet holding on to their own distinctive culture and way of seeing things. She tells of her experiences of the Orange marches and dances around the Glorious Twalf, of the complete lack of any tensions about this with her neighbours, as far as she could see, and of the clearly understood necessity for Protestant girls to go to dances and socials which were patronised by Protestant boys - the consequences of the Catholic Ne Temere decree were all too deeply felt. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Norma MacMaster is now a priest of the Church of Ireland living in Skerries, Co Dublin

Table of Contents

Prelude	p. 7
Pre-School Memories	p. 14
Pater Familias	p. 18
Our Medical Hall	p. 25
Learning Irish and Other Things	p. 30
She	p. 37
Growing Up Presbyterian	p. 39
Learning to be Religious	p. 45
Hard Cash	p. 53
Teenagers	p. 57
Family Wedding	p. 65
The Summer Holidays	p. 72
Orange?	p. 80
The Back Yard	p. 84
Julia	p. 89
Christmas	p. 94
Boarding School	p. 100
Cattie	p. 110
Celebrating the 'Glorious Twelfth' in Cavan	p. 115
Home	p. 120
Gallivanting	p. 126
Continuing Education	p. 129
Still More Education	p. 135
Emigrating	p. 139
Lost and Found	p. 147
P.S.	p. 150
The Peak	p. 158
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