Mary talks about growing up in Terranure, Dublin in the 1980s. She describes her school life, the close female friendships and socialising she enjoyed as a teenager. She recalls many examples of how girls and boys were treated differently and describes how she learnt about sex, sexuality and contraception. Mary recalls meeting her husband and falling in love and the thrill of going to university at UCD. Her best friend Mark was gay and Mary described how she felt more seen and heard with her gay male friends than in straight male spaces. Mary described the way the psychology department at UCD was dominated by the clergy; she recounted her battle with the department to do psychology with history rather than double psychology. She gave many examples of her close relationship with her father; his belief in her and his empathy for her as a woman and a mother. She reflected on her own intellectual development in learning Irish history in Dublin and in London and some of the assumptions she had encountered about different historical understandings of Irish history and revisionism.