History

From 1922 there were inspectors of needlework and home crafts coming to the school. They came to see drawing, needlework, infant work and hear the children singing. Mr. Marchant came for music, Miss E

The guard was bad news only if you were a poor attendee. Pupils of the thirties and forties remember visits by Guard O'Toole and Sergeant Armstrong. In the 1950s and ‘60s Guard Canning was the Schoo

The secondary top in the Faythe lasted twenty three years. In the   nineteen sixties there were four girls' secondary tops in the town, Loreto, Presentation, Mercy and St. John of God. It was decided

The children's names were written down officially for the first time on 2nd January 1899, twenty four years after the school had opened. Only girls were recorded and the first name on this roll book i

Nellie Keegan (then Nellie Doyle) thinks she probably started school when she was about three - maybe even younger. This would mean she began in about 1902. Nellie lived in Byrnes Lane and the back ga

Sr. Paulinus was sent to the school when she was a postulant in 1926 or 1927. Her job was to assist Sr. Mary Paul in 6th Class and to teach Algebra. A year or two in the school was the fate of all you

After the signing of the treaty of 1921 in which Ireland became a Free State there were changes in the school curriculum. The ban on Irish was now removed and the nuns applied themselves to it with gr

When Father Cardiff was Spiritual Director of the school he was very interested in plain chant. He encouraged the children to come to ten o'clock Mass on Sundays. Boys of the Christian Brothers School

In the early days the place for prayer meetings was in the oratory. A lamp was always burning there and could be seen from the quay. The fishermen and sailors knew they were home when they saw the lig