Brenda Murphy may be eighty six years of age but she’s as sprightly and alert as they come and she’s trying to jog your memory with these two photographs.

The first one goes back to 1928 and features her late brother Vincent Murphy, Francey Nolan and Peter Allen alongside the unnamed Clerk of the local Church while the group photo features some local children from the Ringsend/ Sandymount area in the late nineteen thirties about to go on a day trip with the St. Vincent de Paul.

Brenda has great associations with the St. Vincent de Paul and did volunteer work with them in adulthood after a happy childhood spent in Bath Avenue.

One of thirteen children born to John and Mary Murphy she attended school in Haddington Road and had five sisters and six brothers. One child died early on. She had a twin sister Sheila who went on to become a nun and served in Burma.

Spirituality is a trait that passes through the family with her other sister Mary also choosing the religious life as did her brother Fr. Desmond, the only remaining sibling still alive.

“I wouldn’t say I’m very religious myself but enough to get me through each day and I always love going to Mass in Ringsend church,” Brenda told ‘NewsFour’ recently. “I also loved taking part in the May processions and doing the collections.”

Brenda never married and spent most of her adult life caring for other members of her family. “I’m the only one in my family who never got married. I decided to care for my parents when they got ill and they died within six weeks of each other and then I cared for my brothers and sisters, but there’s no point in being morbid about these things,” she says philosophically.

“That’s just the way things went. I’m still very active. I still drive and I’m still involved in lots of local events. I’d been enjoying reading ‘NewsFour’ for years and would love to know the names of some of the people in these photographs if any of your readers could help me.”