Short Story 9: 1958 - "A Start - From Brunswick to Sherwood Forest"
Short Story 9- 1958: ANOTHER THEATRICAL MALONEY Some kids forge the Way! Others follow in the Family Tradition. Here I was, aged 10, ready to do the Latter! “A START – FROM BRUNSWICK TO SHERWOOD FOREST” Well actually it wasn’t a START at all! In so many ways it could easily have been an END! Mrs Box [1] taught Grade V at St Bernard’s College. Well, TAUGHT does not really explain her role as she sought to inspire us with wider life training, far wider than required or imagined. Hence, we learnt the words to Irish traditional poverty songs such as “ Molly Malone ” In Dublin's fair city, where the girls are so pretty I first set my eyes on sweet Molly Malone As she wheeled her wheelbarrow through streets broad and narrow Crying cockles and mussels alive a-live O! We learnt how to blow our nose in public, and how to stand when a Woman walks into a room. We, the next generation of Catholic lads, were being groomed for roles others just imagined. We we...