Category: Elizabeth Hickey

Elizabeth Hickey, our mother, taught for about twenty years from the early 1960s. We record her time in a special new school for disruptive girls

Our parents, Noel Sydney Hickey and Elizabeth (Malet-Warden) married in 1941. Robin and Peter the twins and Eoin were born while they lived at 18.

Here we write about our mother’s early life, born in Scotland in 1917, through to her marriage and arrival at Skryne Castle in 1948. Her