Deirdre Flanagan,
She was a showjumper:
A skilled horse rider, she took part in many showjumping
competitions.
She competed at the RDS.
She won a jumping competition at Millstreet Show,
Millstreet,
Co. Cork,
on "Phil".
She took part in hunting on horses, for fun and competition.
She won the Fingal hunter trials two years running, 1954 and 1955,
representing South Co.Dublin Harriers.
She
jumped for them in Castletown (think Castletown House).
Think she and Peggy
did the Inter Cert and then left to go to TCD rather than do the Leaving Cert.
In those days you could get into TCD without doing the Leaving Cert.
And her mother was keen to get them into university early.
Needed special dispensation to go to TCD.
She entered
TCD
in 1954.
Think studying Economics.
She quit the course in Dec.
She then spent the first part of 1955 at a
finishing school in Switzerland:
Villa Beata,
International Finishing School for young ladies,
Cardinal-Journet 2, 1752 Villars-sur-Glane,
Fribourg,
Switzerland.
See
3D view
and
street view.
She was there as at July 1955.
See postcard
from her
on way home, Aug 1955.
She went back to TCD in Oct 1955 to do a 4 year BA.
She was one of very few Catholics there.
Her mother had been there.
Her sister Peggy was also there, but left to look after their mother in her illness in 1957.
Her mother died Dec 1957.
BA (French and History) 1959.
MA (awarded automatically).
She was a journalist:
She went to Soviet Russia
after her finals, June-July 1959.
(Russia then under Khrushchev.)
Went to Moscow.
She wrote article on trip for Hibernia magazine 1960.
Journalist for Evening Press
as at 1960.
They did not however start going out at that time. It took a few years to get together.
She said she thought at one point of becoming a nun.
But this was a commonplace thought in her environment.
She did not do anything about it.
She became a teacher.
Taught in England.
Teacher at Greenway convent school,
Tiverton, Devon,
1961-1962.
In 1963 she spent a year in Paris.
Full-time worker for Legion of Mary.
Then taught in Ireland.
Secondary school teacher, Sion Hill,
Blackrock, Co.Dublin,
from 1963
until end of school year, summer 1965.
She started going out with Richard c.1963.
He proposed to her in the library at Glenade, Oct 1964.
She
mar 7 July 1965 to Richard Humphreys and had issue.
They mar at
Booterstown church, Co.Dublin (near Glenade).
See
mar cert
from
[GROI].
Lists intended new residence as "Beaufort House", Galway.
Ceremony conducted by Richard's relation
Alfred O'Rahilly.
Her family was Free State.
His family was mostly Republican.
Guests included prominent Republicans and Free Staters,
including
Sean Mac Eoin (former Minister for Defence).
Other guests included
Frank Duff,
and Fr. Paddy O'Mara,
who had married Richard's parents.
See
Photos of Deirdre Flanagan.
Wedding of Deirdre Flanagan and Richard Humphreys, July 1965.
Left to right:
W.T. Cosgrave (died Nov 1965),
Dick Humphreys,
Peggy,
Frank Flanagan,
Jim Humphreys,
Richard,
Deirdre,
Eithne O'Mara,
Finola.
See larger
and full size.
Richard and Deirdre, wedding 1965.
Alfred O'Rahilly on right.
Dick Humphreys back left.
See larger
and full size.
See other copy.
is a DNA match
with all of the following people.
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