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“I spent four years of mychildhood in hospital afterbeing diagnosed with polio,aged seventeen months. Dueto the progressive treatmentof the day, thankfully Irecovered well in my earlyteens.”Anne Burns, a Polio survivor from Drogheda, Co.Louth, speaking of her childhood.

Is fearr an tsláinte ná na táinte.Níor mhill dea-fhocal fiacal riamh.

“Bhí an dabhach ann ’achaon oíche Shathairn… baghnách le mó mháthair sórtbindealáin a chur ar mobhachalla gruaige don oícheagus bheadh ringlets breáthaagam ar maidin!”Cáitlín Bean Mhic Gabhann (née Ní Nualláin), agcaint faoi fhás aníos i mBéal Átha Beithe, Co.Mhuineacháin.

I made you look, I made you stare,I made the barber cut your hair, He cut it long, he cut it short,He cut it with a knife and fork.

“A number of my sisters gotthe measles and I was put inwith them so that I could getit too so that we would get itat the same time, which wascommon in those days.”Cecil Hughes speaking of growing up in SligoTown.

Don Dillon with haircut, Tuam, Co. Galway

Don Dillon le bearradh gruaige, Tuaim,Co. na Gaillimhe.

Jean Mac Grath in the bath and hermother and sister Geraldine looking on,Bonniconlon, Co. Mayo.

Jean Mac Grath sa dabhach agus amháthaer ahus a deirfiúr Geraldineann, Co. Mhaigh Eo,

Article on magnesia in Ireland’s Own,1939

Alt faoi mhaignéis i Ireland’s Own, 1939

Anne Burns from Drogheda, Co. Louthpictured in a polio fundraising bookletfor Baldoyle Hospital, Dublin.

Grianghraf de Anne Burns óDhroichead Átha, Co. Lú, tógtha asleabhrán bailithe airgid poliod’Ospidéal Bhaile Dúill, Baile ÁthaCliath.