Archive (18 life histories found)
'… the teacher Miss Mullholland was a very strict disciplinarian ... She would only have to appear on the village street and every child would disappear'
Margaret recounts her earliest childhood memory of going to school for the first time.
Primary 2, 1979-1980
A picture of Rosemary McCloskey with her pupils in Mercy Primary School
Tags: children, Primary school, Pupils, teacher, uniform
Myself with my school friends
A picture of Rosemary McCloskey taken with her school friends, Reenie Cosgrave and Mary Clarken, taken at the back of St Dominic's High School
Tags: friends, school uniform, uniform
Margaret, Ann and Jacqueline McCloskey
A picture of Rosemary McCloskey's younger sisters Margaret, Ann and Jacqueline
Tags: bow, school uniform, sister, sisters, uniform
25 Year Nursing Reunion
A Menu for the 25 Year Nursing College Reunion Dinner in 2000 at The Four Seasons, Co. Monaghan.
'It has made me think about the change of attitudes of parents to their children spoiling them in many ways. '
I remember as a boy some other boys in The Boys Brigade. They wore little pillbox hats and navy like jerseys with matching socks. I couldn't join because my parents couldn't afford to buy me a uniform. I also remember the little girls going to…
A photo of Mary Dynan with the school Pioneer Council, 1951 -she made the banner
A photo of Mary Dynan with her secondary school friends. Mary is first on the left of the second row.
Tags: friends, school, secondary school, uniform
Mary and her friend
A picture of Mary Dynan in her St. Louis school uniform with her friend.