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Mamo's Bench in Clones

On Monday 20th May 2024, Clones town was presented with a Memory Plaque mounted on a bench and placed on the Diamond across from where Mamo lived and worked most of her life. In Memory of Mamo McDonald National President of the I.C.A. 1982 - 1985 "Clones is my town. Here I have Lived and Loved." The quoted text is from her poem. "Grief" after a picture by Jack B. Yeats Hub of the North they called it, fifty two trains a day passed through this junction. Monastic past had left a legacy stories in stone, Cross, Abbey, tower and Tomb of Tiarnach. Women on Summer evenings, Fresh aproned, sat in doorways, nimble fingers making lace, salvation to the town in famine times. Imposing buildings clustered round the Diamond, three-storied houses spoke of prosperous times, centre of commerce, men of substance. But borders, bombs and blown bridges brought my town to its knees. No pleas for help were heeded. Broken promises, broken lives, broken dreams. Clones is my town. Here I have lived and loved. Now I lament when 'poor Clones', they say. 'The town is surely dead'. I grieve. Speaking at the presentation were in order: MC Josephine Reilly Secretary of Clones ICA Guild Clones ICA Guild President Geraldine O’Connnor Monaghan Federation of ICA President Irene O’Brien, ICA National President Hilda Roche. Minister for Social Protection and for Rural Development Heather Humphrey’s TD. The presentation is followed by a short snippet of Mamo being interviewed on ‘Hindsight’ which was broadcast on 22 August 1994. The presenter is Emer O’Kelly.