“You’ll spend your money on gambling and whores and come to no good,” Mammy said, “No it’s the priesthood for you lad.”
It was the next Saturday father Rafferty came around to see me, “Now your Mammy says you’re fine to join the priesthood and I’ve got a nice curate job for you if you can measure up.”
“Have I to sit an examination?” I asked. “Ah tis sinful and all hard and sinued sister,” the older nun observed, “The sort of fine upstanding cock that would bring a gleam to any young nun’s eye.”
“Sister Emmanuel, I did not join the order to look at cocks!” sister Martha replied blushing furiously. Xxx The Convent was like convents all over Ireland, big forbidding grey walls with happy nuns all singing and dancing and smiling inside where they looked after the orphan babies they found abandoned upon their doorstep,
