Young mother in ‘innocent’ times

From boiling nappies, Billings and longing for a toaster, Elmarie O’Keefe tells her story.

HOW different life was back in the 1960s-1970s for women. For me it was a time of innocence, naivete and a lack of self-importance.

Just get a job, hand up a wage packet every week to my mother, after which an allowance was handed back. The routine was to go dancing twice a week, meet a fella, do a line, before long, it was up the aisle and down to married life.