Later the pupils were addressed on their “mission … to see if you had a vocation to become a priest … and also, to produce the next generation of leaders of the Catholic community, lawyers, doctors, politicians, whatever”. “I was 11 years old, and I suddenly realised, I remember this being a flash to me, that we are looked down on.” “I can remember it clearly to this day, he said, ‘Rossville Street, that’s where you wash once a week’. “‘I’m Eamonn McCann and I’m from Rossville Street’,” was his answer to the priest who, on his first day at secondary school at St Columb’s College, asked all the new pupils to give their names and where they were from. With the clarity of hindsight, it is tempting to believe he could have done little else, yet just as the times he lived in have shaped him, so too has this self-confessed “outsider” shaped them.Įamonn McCann in his younger days.
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