Village School Children, 1973 (top photo) and Village School Children on the Ice, 1973 (bottom photo) by Péter Korniss

I hate when old photos are undated and have no info attached to them, I appreciate the people in them all the same but I want to know their stories!!!!! What did they do for work?? Who was their best friend?? What was their favourite type of dessert?? I want to know what they were like as people!! Tell me their names!!!

• Bridal Crown.

Date: 1984

Jeweler/Maker: Ernst Tande, Hokksund

Lady and Her Horse on a Snowy Day by Félix Thiollier - 1899

Ann Rose Lovett, April 6th 1968 - January 31st 1984

This past January 31st marks forty years since the death of Ann Lovett, Ann was just fifteen years old when she died after giving birth alone, to her stillborn baby laying beneath a statue of the Virgin Mary in a churchyard grotto.

On January 31st 1984 Ann Lovett got up and got dressed as if she were going to go to school like any other day, she was seen in the bathroom by her mother, Patricia Lovett, at around 8am and then seen again walking by a neighbour, Birdie McMahon, dressed in her school uniform with her schoolbag by her side a short time later. Ann’s father, Diarmuid Lovett, didn’t wake up untill 9am and thought Ann was at school like normal, despite her father saying that Ann loved school and would never miss a day none of her teachers informed the Lovettfamily when Ann didn’t turn up at school. Sometime between noon and 12:30pm Ann went to the house of Mary Maguire on Moxham Street which was less than a two minute walk away from Ann’s own home, Mary is the only known person that Ann told about her pregnancy, on December 27th Ann had wrapped her arms around Mary and said to her “Mary, God, I’m pregnant.” She never specified how many months she was to Mary, it’s thought that maybe she didn’t know herself. When Ann had turned up at Mary’s door on January 31st Ann wanted Mary to come out with her, somewhere unspecified but still somewhere that they could go together. Mary couldn’t leave the house as she was babysitting, Ann asked her for a cigarette before leaving. At around 12:45pm on January 31st 1984 Ann Lovett began making her way to the Churchyard grotto in the pouring rain while, wether she knew it or not, either approaching or in the early stages of labour. As Ann reached the Churchyard she pulled a pair of scissors out of her schoolbag that she’d packed with her and left her schoolbag at the Churchyard entrance, at some time between 12:45pm to 4:00pm Ann had lay down, alone, in the rain and gave birth to her baby boy, Ann used the scissors she brought with her to cut the umbilical cord and took off her own coat and wrapped her baby in it. Laying in only her school uniform with her baby in her arms Ann’s body began to go into irreversible shock because of the rain.

Ann’s body was first found by three of school boys at around 4pm who initially came across her schoolbag, the kids heard moaning from inside the grotto and that’s where they found Ann and her dead baby, a boy named Brady said he “took her hand and asked if she was alright, she opened her eyes and then closed them again.” All of the boys ran together to find help, help first came in the form of the first man the boys saw, a man named Tony Kelly, the boys told Tony “there was a girl after falling” which made Tony believe the girl had fallen from the top of the statue on her way home from school and also shows that the boys didn’t realise at first what Ann had actually went through. Thankfully after seeing Ann Tony was beginning to piece together what must have went on. “I held her hand to see was she alright, like, and she was very cold. I put her hand down again. So I went in for the priest and I rang at the door.” Was said by Tony Kelly, when Tony arrived at the priests door the priest said “it’s a doctor you need!” To which Tony replied “I need you too, Father, the little baby is after dying and this little girl might be dying too.” Despite originally pointing out the need for a doctor the priest didn’t call for one, instead he went to retrieve the items needed to perform the last rites. Meanwhile the three boys decided to try their best at helping again and ran together out into the road and knocked on the door of a nearby house, the house belonged to the Gallagher family and at first the young Gallagher daughter answered the door before running to get her father, Eugene Gallagher, she relayed to him that “something terrible was happening at the grotto.” Eugene ran out to the grotto and at this point Tony and the priest were arriving back at the scene too, Eugene then ran back home to call for medical help. It was now 4:14pm.

Eugene called the local doctor, Dr Tom Donoghue, who was in his surgery and Dr Donoghue immediately called for an ambulance which had to come from Mullingar hospital, 42 kilometres away. After calling Eugene gathered up the blankets in his house and ran back up to the grotto. While Eugene was on his way back with the blankets and the priest was almost finishing performing the last rites, the three young boys ran to Ann’s home to tell her family what was happening, only her father and her younger brother Stephen were home when the boys arrived and the pair of them went back to the grotto with the boys once they’d heard what had happened. Soon after Ann’s father and brother arrived at the grotto Dr Donoghue also arrived and quickly realised Ann was suffering from shock, exposure and haemorrhage, “I had a little hope for her, but not much. She was very critically ill.” Dr Donoghue would recall later. Ann was now covered in blankets before her and her baby were carried into Dr Dronoghue’s car, Diarmuid Lovett was driven back home in Dr Dronoghue’s car with his dying daughter and dead grandson.

Now home Diarmuid Lovett lit an oil stove and attempted to keep Ann warm, he also placed two hot water bottles next to the body of the baby despite probably knowing/able to tell that the baby was already dead. It was now 5:10pm and the ambulance had arrived, Patricia Lovett who had arrived home after being alerted about what had happened while grocery shopping went with Ann in the ambulance while her father remained at home. A man named Sr Damien who was attached to St Jospeh’s Hospital was also in the ambulance, at this point Ann was still conscious and Sr Damien would later recall that “I asked the girl her name and she attempted to answer, but I couldn’t make out what she said.”

At 5:55pm Ann was admitted to Mullingar Hospital, upon her arrival it was noted that Ann’s lips and fingertips were white, a medical state called cyanosis. It is said her school uniform was soaked and that Ann herself was cold to the touch, The obstetrician in attendance, Dr Marie Skelly, directed that blood and oxygen be given. “Momentarily there were signs of recovery, but almost immediately she stopped breathing,” said Dr Skelly. She said it was difficult to find whether Ann had succumbed due to hypothermia and exposure, or haemorrhage. Ann did not respond when her chest was opened for direct cardiac massage.

Ann Rose Lovett was pronounced dead shortly after at just fifteen years, nine months and twenty five days.

Ann and her baby’s funeral was held on the morning of February third, Ann’s shocked and deeply saddened classmates formed a guard of honour outside of the church and later went on to sing a choir song inside, Pat Kilvan one of Ann’s teachers played the violin during her funeral service. Ann and her baby were buried together in the Granardkill graveyard, Ann’s baby boy was given the posthumous baptismal name of Pat.

Things said in account of Ann and small things about her life:

“pixie-faced, with dark-brown hair, about shoulder length, slight and not much more than five-foot-two in height.” Said by Nuala Ledwith, a girl two years above Ann at school.

“I always thought she was a strong kind of girl; a kick-ass kind of girl.” Again said by Nuala Ledwith, a girl two years above Ann at school.

“She was a pretty girl. She nearly always had her hair tied up in loads and loads of little plaits. Every so often, she would undo the braids and her hair would stick out in all these lovely curls.” Said by a boy named Michael, who often sat next to Ann in class.

Ann was “very engaging. She was very, very outgoing, very bubbly and a bit of a tomboy, she was gregarious, and the life and soul of all the fun that was happening. The one thing I remember most strongly about her after all these years is that she seemed very independent and strong.”

Ann could often be found hanging out with her friends at Granard’s only and small “pool hall”, which was actually just a little grocery shop with a pool table and four space invader game machines crammed into it.

Ann also had her ears pierced by a friend after asking her to do so at her house.

Farewell to the wonderful Glynis Johns❤️‍🩹 Tony Award winner and Golden Globe and Academy Award nominee, may she rest in peace.

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