Wednesday, 17 April 2019

PHOTO MEMORIES FROM MAUREEN

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Today we continue with our little walk through the years of St Patrick's Convent Schools.  Our evocative photos today come to us throug...
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Tuesday, 16 April 2019

THIRTY YEARS BETWEEN

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As I promised yesterday, here are more photos from St Patrick's Convent School's past. These lovely photos, submitted by Rosalita B...
Monday, 15 April 2019

GRADE 7, 1959/60

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This year, 2019, marks the twentieth anniversary of the closing of St Patrick's Convent Schools.  That day in 1999 St Patrick's stu...
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Monday, 4 March 2019

MIKE'S AUNT ISABELLE, 1918

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M ike Power posted this on our facebook page recently.  I think it is an amazing photo, providing us with a look into St Patrick's past...
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...
Monday, 4 February 2019

DOWN MEMORY LANE AGAIN

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I am so very grateful for all the wonderful photos that I am sent and I love them all.  As dear old St Patrick's is no more, all those ...
Friday, 1 February 2019

YOU CAN'T HAVE TOO MUCH MUSIC!

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You can't have too much music or too many musicians so today I am posting another of Rosalita Bambrick's great photos. It is of ano...
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...
Friday, 25 January 2019

FRIENDS TOGETHER AGAIN

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Maureen O'Brien Roach, Kay Johnson Parsons, Carmel Hayes, Diane Mulcahy Jackman, Mary Johnson Godsland, Phyllis Reardon, Brenda Murphy ...
Wednesday, 2 January 2019

HAPPY NEW YEAR, 2019

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We have waved goodbye to 2018.  For some it was a year of happiness while for others I know it was a year of great sadness.  For most, it w...
Tuesday, 25 December 2018

Funny Nativity: Sing Like No One Is Listening!

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This video has been posted on the Blog before but it is so good it deserves to be posted again.  I hope your Christmas will be filled wit...
Tuesday, 11 December 2018

CHRISTMAS EVE 1951

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If this lovely picture doesn't warm the cockles of your heart this Christmas Season, then I don't know what will.  Doreen Walsh Nos...
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Saturday, 8 December 2018

CHRISTMAS DINNER 2018

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A couple of days ago I received an email and photo from Joan Reynolds Fogarty.  Joan keeps me up to date on her most amazing school friends...
Monday, 26 November 2018

CHRISTMAS GIFT LIST

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As we have seen from previous posts, former St Patrick's Convent School pupils have many talents.  In this post we are proud to highlig...
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...