Mary Manning

Please explain.

One Nation's Rise.

Her aim in life was to get enough money to grow on the weekend.

Who wants to get the message around about what's happening?

We didn't change apartheid, but we certainly, I suppose, brought attention to it.

So people were struggling to try and pay bills and stuff.

But it was, yeah, it was a fairly busy city.

At the time, I was working in a supermarket called Dunn Stores in Henry Street, which is one of the main thoroughfares in Dublin City.

I worked in the grocery department, but it does have a drapery department and they're countrywide.

And as a place of work, Dunn Stores was, well... It wasn't the pleasantest place to be working in.

The money was good, but just the conditions were fairly bad.

And we had a lot of issues in the store at the time.

So everybody was Mr, Mr, whatever they were.

Oh, yeah, we were really angry about the stuff that was going on and the fact that they wouldn't actually talk to us.

Although they were enforcing the rules, we didn't always follow them.

Out of that 50 or 60 people that worked there, there was probably about 20 union members.

Because of a recession, people got afraid to join unions because they didn't want to go on strike, couldn't afford to go on strike.

So it was kind of a mixture of really staunch trade unionists and people who were in the union but were only in it kind of for protection, if you like, from being sacked or whatever.

that in support of the black people of South Africa, they would boycott South African goods.

I mean, we didn't have a clue.