MY mother was allocated a house in Ballymurphy in the mid-50s. It was 11 Divismore Park, at the corner of Glenalina Road. At around the same time, Maureen McKee was allocated a house in the same street, 20 Divismore Park. It was just across the street from us. Maureen and Josie ‘Boxer’ McKee had fourteen children. Rosie, Josie, Seamus, Packy, Ned, Martin, Cookie, Anthony, Chick, Delores, Bernie, Maureen, Maggie and Tessie. Big families were the norm in those days; there were 14 of us also. And they, like us, came from the Falls. Maureen was from Ton Street, Boxer was a boxing coach with the Immaculata Club. He was from Baker Street.
