Archive (8 life histories found)

I returned to Waterford in September 1974 to begin my second year of novitiate. Of the four who had been in the year ahead of us, three had made first profession in their various convents and Rosemary O'Leary had left, as had Doreen Brosnan, before…

Margaret recounts her earliest childhood memory of going to school for the first time.

My values in life were influenced by my mother, my mother-in-law, my husband, my choir friends, my college friends, my school teachers, the various clubs and groups in which I participated in over the years. I got them by being involved,…

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.

I went to school when I was 4 yrs old, to Clonduff P.E.S. There would have been 30 to 40 pupils and two teachers: one lady who taught junior pupils up to third class and a male teacher who taught 4th, 5th and 6th and 7th class for pupils who stayed…

I was one of the lucky few to progress from Johnstown primary school to secondary school. It was only after free secondary education was introduced in the mid - 1960s that secondary schooling became an option for a majority of primary school leavers…

I went to a big Girls' High School surrounded by a big high wall. I used to go to school in a school bus where there was a lady attendant who looked after us that we were comfortable and not any fight.I was an above average student and working hard…

Roles, rules and regulations for the Enniskillen Collegiate School for Girls, which Avril Patterson attended.