My next job was in St Malachy's Boys' Primary school on the New Lodge Road where I had a Primary One class. This job was an answer to my mother's prayers. I got it because Fr Brendan McMullan who was a curate in St Patrick's at the time, could not…
A few of us in my class were chosen to sit the eleven plus examination which would qualify us for places in grammar schools. There was a lot of time, effort and energy expended both by Miss Malone and by ourselves. We also learned dressmaking and…
The teachers whom I recall were Miss Bernadette Higgins, Miss Una McGuinness, Miss Eileen Murphy, Miss Rosaleen McPhillips, Miss Peggy Loughran, Miss Kitty Byrne, Miss Tessa McManus, Mrs McMullan, Miss Patsy Malone who ruled with a rod of iron and…
I went to St Columban's Primary School in Glenview Street. My first teacher was Miss Margaret McCaughan from Ballycastle. She was a lovely lady and very kind to us. We were fifty six children in the class, as a lot of children had been born in the…
After primary school I attended The Sacred Heart Intermediate school in Armagh for a year and passed the review examination which meant I could go on to the Grammar of the Sacred Heart the following year. My best friend Leontia Nugent did the same…
I remember one day at the school when I was in one classroom of the old building and Patsy was in the other a great din broke out outside and the teacher and the bigger boys ran out to see what was happening. It transpired that my father who had come…
As children we all attended Lislea Primary school which was situated about two miles from our house, on the Ballyards road. The quickest way to get there was by taking a shortcut through a nearby farm, Nicholsons, which had an existing lane from the…
The only time Auntie got mad with me was when Olive O'Hara a girl from school and a few other class mates decided to row up to the Holy Well to do the Stations. We had to go up the river and then skirt a bit of the lake. I wouldn't mind but I was…
