Donal Logue

Donal Logue Instagram – Happy Mother’s Day to my mom, Ailís Ó Súilleabháin, or “Betty” the name she went by in the States. My mom’s doing well and takes a lot of pleasure in sharing stories about her youth on an impossibly beautiful farm in Sneem, County Kerry, where she used to read to the cows, and of her days in Africa during the Mau Mau Rebellion and Nigerian Civil War. The constant denominator was her love for teaching. My mom taught countless students from the Loreto School in Limburu, Kenya, to The Catholic School for girls in Owerri, Nigeria, Stella Maris, in Port Harcourt, The Bishop Thomas Grant School in London during the mid-’60s (where she taught kids the system had given up on- very “To Sir, With Love”) Sacred Heart in Nogales, Arizona, Vincent Memorial and Calexico High in Calexico, and Calipatria High School in Calipatria, California. What a trip she’s had. Man. She has seen a lot. She was eight months pregnant with Eileen when she went to England from Nigeria, eight months pregnant with Deirdre and I when she landed in Montreal from Ireland, (yep, we anchor babies!) and had Karina with no help in New Hampshire when my pops was away working in Japan. She rolled through any punch life threw at her. She taught us the value of reading, athletics, prayer, and just being generally kind to our fellow earth planet travelers. In the first photo my mother is receiving cogngratulations as the Captain for guiding the University College Galway camogie squad as 1957 National Ashbourne Cup champs (held in Belfast). What a life lived- now just need to squeeze those cool stories out of her!! | Posted on 12/May/2024 09:40:25