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We Were Happy There: A Hundred Years of St Louis High School Rathmines

Ita Daly

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Description:When the Sisters of St Louis established a secondary school in Rathmines in 1913, local clergy regarded them as dangerously ‘progressive’ but in reality they were catering for the daughters of the aspiring Catholic middle classes, offering a range of academic subjects, music and art, with an emphasis on ‘deportment’ and accomplishment in ‘all the duties of woman’s sphere’. The winds of change blew, free secondary education arrived in 1967 and the St Louis High School that celebrates its centenary is a lively and varied educational community that has deep roots in Rathmines while reflecting the diversity of Irish society in the 21st century. We Were Happy There includes contributions from some of those who spent their youth in its classrooms and corridors. Mary Black sang there; Mary Finan couldn’t sing but managed a speaking part in a musical; Angela Bourke sat for years of Latin in front of Miss Ingram; Ita Daly joined a Marxist-Leninist party while a teacher there (the principal took it in her stride). Many contributors write of choirs, orchestras and musicals; Gráinne Gormley of her feeling of ‘rightness’ when she began to conduct her class choir; Anne Enright of the ‘sweetness and power’ of single-sex education; and Iseult Deane, still a St Louis student, of participating in the writing of ‘Chapter 100’ in the history of the school. We Were Happy There is an affectionate but perceptive portrait of an Irish girls’ school in a century of change.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with We Were Happy There: A Hundred Years of St Louis High School Rathmines. To get started finding We Were Happy There: A Hundred Years of St Louis High School Rathmines, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 158

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Londubh Books

Release: 2014

ISBN: 190753539X

Description: When the Sisters of St Louis established a secondary school in Rathmines in 1913, local clergy regarded them as dangerously ‘progressive’ but in reality they were catering for the daughters of the aspiring Catholic middle classes, offering a range of academic subjects, music and art, with an emphasis on ‘deportment’ and accomplishment in ‘all the duties of woman’s sphere’. The winds of change blew, free secondary education arrived in 1967 and the St Louis High School that celebrates its centenary is a lively and varied educational community that has deep roots in Rathmines while reflecting the diversity of Irish society in the 21st century. We Were Happy There includes contributions from some of those who spent their youth in its classrooms and corridors. Mary Black sang there; Mary Finan couldn’t sing but managed a speaking part in a musical; Angela Bourke sat for years of Latin in front of Miss Ingram; Ita Daly joined a Marxist-Leninist party while a teacher there (the principal took it in her stride). Many contributors write of choirs, orchestras and musicals; Gráinne Gormley of her feeling of ‘rightness’ when she began to conduct her class choir; Anne Enright of the ‘sweetness and power’ of single-sex education; and Iseult Deane, still a St Louis student, of participating in the writing of ‘Chapter 100’ in the history of the school. We Were Happy There is an affectionate but perceptive portrait of an Irish girls’ school in a century of change.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with We Were Happy There: A Hundred Years of St Louis High School Rathmines. To get started finding We Were Happy There: A Hundred Years of St Louis High School Rathmines, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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