Earlier than she went to the Irish Occasions in 1969, Nell McCafferty was briefly an lively instructor of French. She took the in any other case staid Strabane grammar college by storm, particularly as she was from “the opposite aspect”, at a really turbulent time in Northern Eire’s historical past; a uncommon occasion.
My reminiscences of her chimed with these on the college’s alumni Fb web page: “A mini whirlwind; unique power; a really quick skirt that irritated Miss T; a stand-up with Mr McK within the dinner queue; she taught us to sing Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da in French” – plus her personal recollection of collaborating within the civil rights motion, with the odor of the riots of the evening earlier than in her hair.
