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Mary McGinley, Derryreel, Falcarragh pictured with her co-workers on Glasgow Corporation trams in the 1950s. Many Donegal people worked on the buses, trams and trolleybuses operated by Glasgow Corporation Transport. (Image courtesy of Mary McKeown)
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Brothers Dinnie Gallagher (far left) and John Gallagher (far right) originally from Tully near Dungloe pictured with Mick Durkin (from County Mayo) and John Floyd (from Ballybofey) working for the Cementation company on the interceptor sewer in Seafield, Edinburgh circa 1966. The dangerous nature of their working environment is conveyed by the condition of their work clothes and the lack of personal protective equipment. (Image courtesy of Mary Gallagher)
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Mary Herron (nee McDaid) from Carndonagh (on left) with her Scottish friend and co-worker Madge Byrnes stacking filled jam jars onto a pallet at the Robertson’s Jam factory in Paisley. The jam jars were washed in cold water to cool them for handling and they would lift four jars at a time. (Image courtesy of Mary Herron)
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Pictured at the Donegal Emigrant Working Lives in Scotland drop-in event at the Scottish Football Museum in Hampden Park, Glasgow in October 2024 are (from left to right): Jerry O’Donovan (Irish Consul General), Hugh Dougherty (historian, journalist and author) and Packie Bonner (Donegal Diaspora Ambassador). Photo: Joseph Gallagher