She aced the Irish orals after being told applicants needed to sound like native speakers to get into the Abbey Theatre
Maths. I am and was innumerate. And though I was very good at geometry because it was images and logic, algebra reduced me to pulp.
My father and my older sister, who was the first computer programmer in the Civil Service, used to try to teach me. And my sister would get blind with fury at me because she thought I was pretending to be stupid. I was the real thing.Art. I was a wonderful painter – Texaco art competition and all that sort of stuff.I got As in English and Art. My best subjects, weirdly, were geography and history. I passed maths, got 60 per cent in Latin.
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