Showing posts with label St Patrick's Convent. Show all posts
Showing posts with label St Patrick's Convent. Show all posts
Friday, 10 January 2025

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY

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Today, 10th January 2025, marks the 169th Anniversary of the founding of St Patrick's Convent.    On 10th January 1856, four Presentatio...
Saturday, 20 April 2024

TWENTY FIVE YEARS AGO 6, MUSIC, SONG AND DANCE

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Did you know that the Presentation Sisters were the first teachers in Newfoundland to introduce music into schools on a daily basis? Well th...
Saturday, 16 April 2022

A NICE 'BLAST FROM THE PAST'

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This great photo was sent to me by Joan Fitzgerald Ebsary quite some time ago.  Joan sent it to our Facebook messenger and, for more than a ...
Tuesday, 8 March 2022

ST PATRICK'S SISTERS 1995/96

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I came across this photo in an old book from 1996. The Sisters were all resident at St Patrick's Convent at that time.  I recognize just...
Sunday, 6 March 2022

RAY'S AMAZING PICTURES

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A year or so ago Ray Simms sent me a couple of photos which I thought were just amazing.  Well, me being me (not a computer expert!), I mana...
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Sunday, 26 January 2020

REST IN PEACE HELEN

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We have just lost another of our St Patrick's Graduates, Helen Molloy.  Helen was a larger than life character who, over the years, con...
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Thursday, 21 November 2019

YVONNE'S PROUD EVENING

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Happy Presentation Day, to all.  On this Presentation Day 2019, I am pleased to bring you this lovely little post.  I think it  will bring ...
Saturday, 22 June 2019

"GLORIOUS SURVIVORS"

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While never forgetting those who died, in the next few days we will remember those who fought and survived the horrors of World War I.  Pa...
Tuesday, 28 May 2019

9TH JUNE, THE BIG DAY!

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This post is to remind the school friends and classmates of Christine Rossiter Butler of the 6th Annual Gathering of grade 3 (1967-68) clas...
Friday, 17 May 2019

TERI NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT

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So many of us were classmates of the Healey girls from Brine Street.  Cindy Healey was 58 years old when she died in 2016.  She had been st...
Sunday, 12 May 2019

ANNIE FINLAY

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At St Patrick's Convent, next to where the old Passage used to be, is the little cemetery where so many of our former teachers rest.  I...
Tuesday, 26 February 2019

SR IMELDA'S COMMERCIAL CLASS, 1958

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Th is is another photo from Rosalita Bambrick's collection of school pictures.  This lovely one is of Sr Imelda's Commercial Class...
Tuesday, 29 January 2019

MUSIC PUPILS, MID 1950s

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Rosalita Bambrick, a staunch St Patrick's Girl who now lives in Ontario, has sent some beautiful pictures.  They are all so nice that I...
Wednesday, 21 November 2018

COVE LANE, CORK, 1775

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It began in a cottage in Cove Lane, Cork. Here, on Christmas Eve 1775, Nano Nagle founded the Sisters of Charitable Instruction of the Sac...
Thursday, 27 September 2018

FIRST GRADE 12 GRADUATES, 1984

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Janet Rumsey has sent us some very nice photos.  She also had a little bit of interesting information regarding the girls in the two classe...
Saturday, 3 March 2018

FIRST NEWFOUNDLAND BORN PRESENTATION SISTER

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Sr Mary Rose Mulally was the first Newfoundland born Presentation Sister.  She was also one of the four founding Sisters of our own St Patr...
Friday, 1 September 2017

BACK TO SCHOOL IN SADDLE OXFORDS!

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It is that time again!  Time to say good bye to the "lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer" and get down to study again as schools acr...
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