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Lorna Reynolds- Family Life

Lorna Reynolds was born in Jamaica on the 17th of December in the year 1911. She was brought up in a middle class family. Her father, Micheal Reynolds was a staff sergeant in the Royal Engineers, and her mother, Theresa or further known as Née Redmond. Reynolds was brought up in a large family of five children. Unfortunately Reynolds father passed away at a very tender young childhood age, ‘Her father died when she was 10, and the family returned to Ireland’. This would have been a profoundly difficult hard time for her mother Teresa and also on the family. Shortly after this, her mother and siblings moved away from the Caribbean in Jamaica to Birr in County Offaly in 1912, ‘My mother, when she was widowed, returned with her five children to live in Birr, in her childhood home, now owned by her sister’ (Reynolds. L, 1986). Living back in Reynolds mothers home town gave her an insight into what life was like for her. During this time Reynolds discovered her love for Galway from a very early stage, ‘ I suppose I was ten - or thereabouts - that first visit to Galway. It was hot, and I got sunburned for the first and only time in my life. I discovered the shocking exhilaration of sea-bathing’ (Reynolds, L 1986). This proves that Reynolds long lust for Galway grew from a youthful age.

After three years Lorna and her family moved to Dublin, Ireland, where she could complete her education, ‘ Having spent three years in Birr, Co Offaly, the family moved to Dublin and she completed her secondary education at the Dominican College, Eccles Street’ (Irish Times, 2003). Lorna thoroughly enjoyed travelling and exploring the world but she spent a lot of her time in Italy ‘ Italy was virtually a second home, and she enjoyed its culture, especially good food and wine’ (Past Pupils of Dominican College and Scoil Chaitríona). This meant that Reynolds didn't have any of her own family so in the year 1978 she returned from Galway and moved into her family home in Dublin off the Merrion Road.

Reynold, L. (1986) ‘Across the Shannon: Experiences of Galway’. PP 40-41. Available at https://www.jstor.orgstablepdf29735775.pdfcasa_token=WntcxfjYCTIAAAAA:S0ZZzMMtJtsfbhVMQOmrVmzglWD6072FWx4tTzWzLawmKumOOhVEcT56Fhaza6Lql75TiowjYQl1UOKLpz-WzBtj7h8vmscBgAKaa2twm6hxK7w8CBSO (Accessed 24 Novemeber 2018)

Irish Times (2003) ‘A life whose theme was freedom of women’. Available at https://www.irishtimes.com/news/a-life-whose-theme-was-freedom-of-women-1.367604 (Accessed 26 July 2003)

‘Past Pupils of Dominican College and Scoil Chaitríona’. Retrieved from http://www.dominicancollegeppu.ie/AlumniProfiles.html#LNR Italic text