Archive (4 life histories found)
'Thanks to the wonders of modern technology, we are able to follow her progress on skype, but you can 't kiss or hug the computer screen _ﾋ_ well, you could, but the men in the white coats would come and take you away!! '
Bevin Carlin Kelly - as she calls herself. Bevin fills our lives with joy and manages to brighten each day that we are lucky enough to see her. Like her mother (Fiona) she has an independent streak with an enquiring and challenging mind. She has…
'Corporal punishment was widely in use. '
Corporal punishment was widely in use. I can never understand why I should be punished for getting the wrong answer. If the teacher had been doing his/her job properly, I would have understood the question better.
Tags: corporal punishment, Learning, school, teachers
'Living in the flat in Dublin, usually 4 or 5 of us was the University of my Life'
I moved out of the uncle's house in September 1962 and into a flat with four pals, all studying in UCD. This flat existed with all of us coming and going until 1972 at various addresses mostly in Rathmines. Although my formal education stopped at…
Tags: development, Education, Learning
'I spent about 10 years in youth work like this and it was there I developed'
Since business was so static and challenges so few I got involved socially in a boys' club run by Past Castleknock Men in Benburb Street. This was in the model of Belvedere Newsboys and several others and was a place where the boys from Benburb St…
Tags: boxing, boy's club, development, Learning, summer camp