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Going to Castleknock was a profound cultural shock for a very small boy (I was the smallest in the school) from Northern Ireland. Northern Catholics had an inbuilt inferiority complex aided and abetted by our dreadful primary education.The boys in…

School in Strabane was the Convent (5-6 years old) and Barrack Street Boys' Primary (7-14 years old). In Northern Ireland you had to pass the '11 plus' in order to access 2nd level (St Columb's in Derry). The standard of education in Barrack St…

Hugh Duncan's General Certificate of Secondary Education

Certificate for Hugh Duncan's completion of a course entitled 'The Shankill - a People's History' in Rupert Stanley College