Archive (7 life histories found)
'...but we took to the strange surroundings of a French boarding school with gusto'
There were about twenty of us - excited St. Louis girls meeting at the ferry on the first leg of our journey to spend a month in France. We even had to get new blue blazers with Kilkeel crest to match the others. We had not yet acquired the…
Tags: France, French, language, school trip
Mary at 17!
A picture of Mary Dynan aged 17 in Hotel St Jude, Lourdes, France, August 1952.
Mary with her school friends on their trip to France, July 1952
A picture of Mary with her school friends taken on their trip to France. This picture was of the group which went to Lourdes from July during the French holiday
Tags: France, French, language, school trip
The group on pilgrimage to Lourdes (Summer 1952)
A picture of Mary with her school friends taken on their trip to France. During this trip they stayed in Cours Bautain, where the St Louis order was founded and they went up into the Pyrenees to Pont d'Espagne and Pic du Jer. It was a memorable…
Tags: France, French, language, school trip
On pilgrimage to Lourdes during our French holiday
Mary Dynan with her school friends on pilgrimage to Lourdes during their French holiday in 1952.
Tags: France, French, language, school trip
France Summer 1952
A picture of Mary with her school friends taken on their trip to France. During this trip they stayed in Cours Bautain, where the St Louis order was founded and they had French lessons in the morning and went to the swimming pool in the afternoon, or…
Tags: France, French, language, school trip
France Summer 1952
Mary Dynan spent the summer of 1952 in France with a group from her secondary school and from St Louis, Monaghan. During this trip they stayed in Cours Bautain, where the St Louis order was founded. Twice a week they went into Paris and explored…
Tags: France, French, language, school trip