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Molly Bowes
Monday, July 21, 2008
Mary McPoyle, Magilligan, County Derry
Not long before picture was taken, Mary was still climbing
Binevenagh
to cut peat. She lived most of her life in the small thatched cottage in which she was born with her sister Sarah, making tea over the fire, smoking the
occasional
cigarette, and feeding guests persistent quantities of home cooked meals and tales of nighttime boat trips across Lough
Foyle
to
Donegal
in
order
to smuggle Free State butter beneath the folds of her skirt. She never married, although Sarah pointed out she once had a beau, "who gave her a pair of shoes as a gift," they laughed. But he had a habit for the bottle for which Mary had no interest.
So that was that.
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