Máirín Mhic Risteáird, known as Máirín Joe Sheamúis, from Cois Fharraige, Galway, speaks about her 20 years as a teacher in Monaghan, Dublin and Donegal
About This Show
Máirín Mhic Risteáird, known as Máirín Joe Sheamúis, from Cois Fharraige, Galway, shares her story on this week's show. As a former teacher, she spent more than 20 years educating children in Monaghan, Dublin and Donegal and also enjoyed living in Bantry, Cork. In 2005, along with her husband, she retired to Connemara - but their time together was cut short
Máirtín Tom Sheáinín is joined by Jacqueline Chéitinn from Dublin, who began looking for her birth mother in her late 20s after being given up for adoption aged just six months
Máirtín Tom Sheánín talks to Eibhlín Uí Dhonnchadha, a teacher from Rinn gCuanach, Co Waterford, who discusses the local customs and the time she met John F Kennedy
Tomás Mac Ruairí from Armagh discusses the time he spent as a journalist, his work in the Gael Linn and his experience as president of Conradh na Gaeilge