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Presentation College, Athenry

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Presentation College , Athenry is a voluntary secondary school which is predominantly Catholic in character not in any sectarian sense but in the expression of our Christianity through our Catholic faith.  As a school community we commit ourselves to hand on our Christian faith and Christian values

• by fostering a love of God in one another through our daily prayers, symbols, rituals and example;
• by cherishing all our members equally regardless  of  religious affiliation or cultural differences;
• by helping one another to realise our full potential and to become responsible members of society;
• by promoting a sense of personal value, mutual respect and self discipline;
• by encouraging each other to share in the responsibility of running the school;
• by seeking to discern those most in need among us and responding to them.

The challenge is ours today to allow the love of god to touch our hearts so that we will find our true meaning and purpose in life.

School History

​In 1908 Presentation Convent in Athenry was established by the Tuam mother-house. Sisters taught in the old girls’ primary school at Abbey Row until, some years later, a new Primary School was built on the parish lands at the rear of the convent.  By the late 1920’s the Sisters began to provide secondary education for girls in the primary school through development of a secondary top.  In 1930, four girls took the Intermediate Certificate examination, fore-runner of the present Junior Certificate and in 1948 the school was registered with the Department of Education as a Secondary School and the curriculum was extended. There were 74 girls on the rolls in 1949/50.  A new building, the Technology Block, with 5 classrooms was opened in 1951. The main school building until 1980, this building is still in use today.  in 1952 there were 96 girls enrolled. Some travelled by train from Ballyglunin station, which featured in the film The Quiet Man. Closed for many years, the line was re-opened by 2013 so once again pupils may travel by train to the Pres from Ballyglunin and further afield.

In 1964 the Sisters announced that boys would be admitted to the school from September, and 25 boys joined the 126 girls in the school which was now named Presentation College.  With the advent of the Free Education Scheme and free transport in 1967 pupil numbers increased greatly and Sr. Brid Brennan was appointed Principal 1 year later in 1968.   The co-educational Coolarne school amalgamated with Presentation College in 1968.  By 1970 there were 386 pupils enrolled, and were mainly taught in pre-fabricated classrooms. Enrollment reached 489 in 1975 and a new school building was sanctioned by the Department of Education.  The years 1980 to 1982 saw the completion and opening of the present school building as well as a locally supported gymnasium on what was the school football pitch.

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​​Presentation College , Athenry is a voluntary secondary school which is predominantly Catholic in character not in any sectarian sense but in the expression of our Christianity through our Catholic faith.

In 1908 Presentation Convent in Athenry was established by the Tuam mother-house. Sisters taught in the old girls’ primary school at Abbey Row until, some years later, a new Primary School was built on the parish lands at the rear of the convent.  By the late 1920’s the Sisters began to provide secondary education for girls in the primary school through development of a secondary top.  In 1930, four girls took the Intermediate Certificate examination, fore-runner of the present Junior Certificate and in 1948 the school was registered with the Department of Education as a Secondary School and the curriculum was extended. There were 74 girls on the rolls in 1949/50.  A new building, the Technology Block, with 5 classrooms was opened in 1951. The main school building until 1980, this building is still in use today.  in 1952 there were 96 girls enrolled. Some travelled by train from Ballyglunin station, which featured in the film The Quiet Man. Closed for many years, the line was re-opened by 2013 so once again pupils may travel by train to the Pres from Ballyglunin and further afield.

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• October 8, 2017

The Story of the Presentation Sisters, Scoil Chroi Naofa and Presentation College, Athenry (1908-2008)

Editor and Compiler: Gerald J. Ahern

The Presentation Secondary Top, Athenry

1920 to 1947

Introduction

Following the 1921 Treaty and the subsequent Civil war, the Irish Free State began the process of establishing itself both domestically and internationally. More importantly, it now had to provide all the finance to pay for the running of the country. In those years, the country was very poor, and for a period of four years it even necessitated in the Government reducing the Old Age Pensions.

Jobs were few and very scarce. Over 90 % of the population did not have secondary education and so were excluded from positions in local and national government departments.

Even though Enclosure prevailed for the Presentation Order, the Athenry Presentation Sisters were fully aware of the economic situation outside the convent walls through the poverty of the children attending the Convent national school.

Sister Cecelia Cusack

(Principal 1920 -1930)

Sister Cecelia Cusack, according to her friend Sr. Evelyn Geraghty, was “ Different, Unconventional, Gracious, Generous, Musical, Bigness. One word that I feel fits Cecilia is Unconventional. Cecilia was a great musician. An impromptu concert was announced for any excuse. She sat at the piano and accompanied us as we sang all the old tunes. She also taught us new songs. She had a great love of nature. In relation to her Prayer life, she also had her own way of speaking to God.  God is everywhere. God is in everything and in everyone. As Patrick Kavanagh wrote “God is in the bits and pieces of everyday life”.  She had a solid belief in the afterlife. She firmly believed that Heaven existed; that it was a place where there was total and complete happiness, that all we ever wished for was there for us, that God was madly in love with us, and she often quoted scripture “eye hath not seen nor ear heard the wonderful things God has prepared for us .” 

Sr. Cecelia perceived this economic situation and it was decided to establish ‘Secondary Top’. In the beginning there was no cut-off point between primary and secondary schooling. The beginnings of second level education to Intermediate Certificate started in 7 th and 8 th classes in one room of the school. Some girls from neighbouring parishes also attended.

The Secondary Top Room is on the right

Numbers began to rise and a big room in the Convent national School became the home of the Secondary Top until the formal establishment of the first Presentation Secondary School recognised by the Department of Education in 1947. During those years some pupils studied for the King’s Scholarship and some went on to train as Primary teachers. French and Latin were taught.

An tOllamh Mairéad Ní Éimhigh-Professor Margaret Heavey

 by Gerry Ahern

Margaret Heavey, the eldest child in a family of three sisters and two brothers, was born in Old Church Street, Athenry on the 15 th of September 1908, the same year the Presentation Sisters came to Athenry.

Her father, Thomas, was a saddler by trade and her mother was Alice Kirwan of the well known Dublin business family, Kirwans Undertakers.

At that time, their house in Old Church Street, beside Glynn’s pub was a thatched two storey building in which Thomas plied his trade of saddle and harness making. Later in 1936, he had a new home built on the site by Pat Kelly of Lisheenkyle.

Baby Margaret with parents, Thomas and Alice (Photos: Vincent Devally)

Maggie Heavey was enrolled (Reg. No. 290) in the Presentation National School on the 24 th of March 1911. She left on the 30 th of June 1924, aged 16, having completed her primary years and spending five years in the Secondary Top-two years in 7 th class and three years in 8 th class. From there she entered University College, Galway to study for her degrees.

All of Thomas and Alice’s children were gifted intellectually. Susan won first place in Ireland in Music, and Flora, by the age of 22, qualified as a professor, but died of a burst appendix.  John entered the priesthood. Christy, while not progressing to higher education, was highly intelligent and the father of Ann, who later married Vincent Devally from Tiaquin. Christy was a postman and one of the founders of the Athenry branch of the Labour Party.  He was the local letter writer for those who found the art of writing difficult. Sadly, all of them, with the exception of Margaret, died between the ages of 19 and 35.

While always helpful and supportive to students who she saw were making strong efforts in their studies, she was strict on those who were indolent. Her regular censure to them went ‘you may waste your time, you may waste your parent’s time but you will not waste mine’.

She was of tall stature, 5’ 8”, and had a striking outdoor presence dressed in her usual attire of Berét, a long flowing overcoat and scarf. Her countenance was austere and, because if it, many people were slow to approach her. But at heart, she was a kind and loving person to her family and those who were close to her. She cared lovingly for her mother until she passed away in 1970.

During her years in NUI, Galway, she commuted there by train. Alighting at Ceannt Station, she mounted her ‘High Nellie’ and cycled to the College. Many students, who made the same daily trip, carried her briefcase and left it under the College Archway for her to collect.

Her handwriting was difficult to read as she wrote quickly.

Her public and academic persona was one of focused determination. ‘She was not an aloof person but very much a ‘down to earth’ one’, says Vincent.  Privately, she was a kind, loving and caring individual. In 1970, following her mother’s death, she wrote to her niece, Ann, who was married with two young children, Adrian and Susan, in England to Vincent Devalley.

They were planning to immigrate to Australia at the time. She invited them to return to Athenry and live with her in the family home.  Wanting to give Vincent, Ann and family their own privacy, she had the builders in to construct an upstairs private apartment and study for herself, the door of which was always open to the family.

Margaret with her niece, Ann

Their arrival and presence brought her ten years of extra happiness. The children, Adrian, Susan and Baby Karen were the joy of her life. They called her Aunt Maggie and she lavished her love and attention on them as if they were her own children. While babysitting, she read them stories at bedtime and, when very busy with her academic work, recorded many stories on tape and played them on the recorder outside the bedroom door. She enjoyed their birthdays and proudly attended their First Holy Communions and Confirmations.

  Margaret with Susan, Karen and Adrian

On Sundays, she gave them their ‘Sunday wage’ to spend on sweets and goodies. On one particular weekend, the children needed extra cash for an event, so Karen was sent upstairs to do the asking. She stood at Aunt Maggie’s study door and was plain and direct with her words, ’We want a pound!’ Minutes later, to the delight of her siblings, she returned with a pound for each of them.

Studying family photographs of her with Ann and Vincent’s children, one notes the look of serene happiness on her face. Undoubtedly, they were the beneficiaries of her strong maternal love. 

She was a ‘soft touch’ to callers, especially Travellers. When anyone other then Aunt Maggie opened the door to them, they enquired if the ‘Processor’ was at home. They always left with cash. Even if she was away for a long spell, word of her arrival home went around quickly among the Travellers and knocks would resound on the door shortly thereafter.

She never learned to drive, yet she greatly enjoyed car journeys. Vincent remembers that whenever they travelled together, she dressed in her usual outdoor attire. The car windows were always kept closed, the heater at full blast, even on the warmest days, as they sped along. Her trips abroad included visits to the USA and a year in Germany.

Vincent, Aunt Maggie, Adrian and Susan on Black Head, Co. Clare.

Because she cared for her mother until 1970, she was unable to take up academic promotions. In the following ten years, she was promoted to the second highest position within the university. So important was she to the college that she continued to lecture after her official retirement, right up to three days before her death on the 15 th of February 1980, aged 72.

Three days previously, she began to feel unwell and told Vincent that ‘the inside mechanics were breaking down’. She collapsed in the College and was brought home. The following day she was taken by ambulance to the then Regional Hospital. She was suffering from bleeding ulcers and an operation failed to save her life. Her last words to Vincent, sitting by her bedside, were ‘go home and mind the children.’

She’s buried in the centre of the New Cemetery in a grave covered by sparkling green chippings. Ann gave some of her books to Esker Monastery and NUI Galway. The remainder she kept in her home. To Vincent, Adrian, Susan and Karen, she, along with Ann, are saints in Heaven and to whom they direct their prayers for special favours.

Sister Xavier Curran

(Principal 1930-1937)

In 1930, Sister Xavier Curran took charge of the Secondary Top. The first four students to sit the Intermediate certificate Examination were: Ellie Monaghan, Delia Rooney, Delia Hansberry and Angela Connolly. They sat the Exam in Tuam in the following subjects: English, Irish, Mathematics, History and Drawing. The School also provided Commerce through Commercial classes for those girls who hoped to get positions in offices. There was no Leaving Certificate course available in the secondary top and students had to go to boarding school to do this.

Secondary Top Pupils circa 1929/30

Front, l-r: Maggie Farrell, Mary Manning, Delia Haney, Ellie Caulfield, Mary Carr.

Middle, l-r: Delia Caulfield, Sara Farrell, Kitty Lardner, Mary Duddy, Maudie Monaghan, Winnie Holian, Rosie Scully, Jean Fitzsimons

Back, l-r: Mary Touhy, Annie Earls, Bridie Moylan, _______ Monaghan, Gretta Connolly, Maureen Fahy, Lil Cresham, Attracta Howley, Monsie Burke, Ita McHugh, Babs Duffy, Sally Ruane, Sheila Collins.

Photo: Monsie Kennedy

Life in the Secondary Top 1930-1933

Summary of the i nterview of Molly Clancy and Julia Keane, born in Greethill, by Mary Keary and Gerry Ahern on 27 th August 2008 in the Athenry Convent Parlour.

She and her friend, Maureen Murphy, were given written tests in Irish, English and Maths and were accepted as first year Inter Cert students.

The Secondary Top classroom

The secondary Top classroom, which housed all the students, was the large room attached to the back of the Convent National School. First, second and third year students years studied all the subjects together: Irish, English, Mathematics, Book Keeping, Advanced Book Keeping, Business Methods, and there was a commercial course available at which Molly gained a proficiency of 60 words per minute in typing skills.

The School Staff

The school staff : Miss May Kelly from Ardrahan who taught Business Methods, Miss. Masie Waldron who replaced Ms Kelly, Sr. Cecelia and the Principal, Sr. Xavier Curran. (Mother Peter Kelly was the Convent Superior at the time.)

  Often drenched to the skin

Molly cycled the 8 miles to and from school each day, through all kinds of weather. Any time she arrived drenched wet in school, she dried her clothes in the laundry room at the back of the convent. The Sisters were kind and provided hot cocoa at lunchtime to the students.

Their classmates were:

Julia Finnerty (Gurteen), Mary Lawless, Rose Scully, Nora Beirne (Athenry), Maureen Finnerty (Attymon), Sadie and Ellie Caulfield (Castlelambert), Lill Crusham (Athenry), Masie Burke (Craughwell), Maureen Fahy (Athenry), Tessie Burke (Attymon), May Monaghan (Esker), Kathleen Keane (Castlelambert), (Sr.) Joan Fitzsimons (Farmyard), (Sr.) Mary Carr, (Sr.) Mary Teresa Duffy and Kitty Lardner (Athenry).

Sr. Xavier-A multi-talented teacher

Along with being very kind, Sr. Xavier was a multi-talented teacher and taught: advanced English, Grammar, poetry, prose and plays by Shakespeare, all of which Molly loved. Students wrote with a fountain pen and used blotting paper to dry their writing. Sr. Cecelia, who was a lovely nun, taught singing two days a week. They learned sewing and knitting and patterns made were fastened to pages in copy books. Ms. Waldron taught English, later married and settled in Attymon, and became the mother of Redemptorist Fathers Tony and Peter Flannery. Catechism was taught for a half an hour each day from 12 to 12.30pm.

Students knelt for prayers before class each morning and at the end of the last class of the day, and afterwards paid a visit to the Blessed Sacrament.

Primary and Secondary Top Pupils in the early 1930s

Front, l-r: _____, ______, Una Hynes, _____, _____, ______, Kitty Fahy and ____Molloy (Hotel). Second row, l-r : _____Ledwith, Sr. Jarlath, Betty Manning (Bridge St), Flora Heavy (Church St), Rita Glynn, Rose Reilly, _____, ______ .

Third row, l-r: ______Nolan, Madie Fit (Square), Bridie Ledwith (College), ______,

______, ______Coffey, Josephine Dunne (Connelly), M. McGovern, _____Coffey, Julia Keane, ______McCay (Mulpit) and Masie Connelly (College). Back, l-r : Nora Byrne, Minnie Collins, _____, _______, Baby Nyland, Annie Rooney, ______, J. Bermingham, ______, ______Creham, ______, _______, Kathleen Duffy,  Ita Hynes, ______,______.

Trips and Concerts

School trips to Kylemore Abbey and Kilkee were extremely enjoyable and their appetites were satisfied with a packed lunch and flasks of tea. They recalled the school concerts where Nora Byrne sang and Joan Fitzsimons played the piano.

Silver Stars

Friday was test day for subjects and failure resulted in being sent around to the other convent classes with a placard stating that result. Silver stars were the rewards for success. For misbehaviour, a small slap with a stick was given. In general, the students didn’t take any notice of the punishments and got back to work.

Rogation Days

Rogation Days in the Catholic Church are special days of supplication marked by processions and special prayers to honour the Lord, His Blessed Mother and the Saints. For pupils of the Presentation Sisters they were highlights of the school year, with the Feast of the Sacred Heart being the most prominent. The altar was decorated with beautiful pots of flowers and red and white crepe paper. After Mass and Benediction in the nuns’ chapel, usually said by Father O’Grady C.C. or Canon Farragher P.P., tea and buns were served , and there followed the sports with the Three Legged Race, Egg and Spoon Race, Tug-of-Wag and  running races. The Month of May was also one of great devotions to The Blessed Virgin with May Altars, rosaries and hymn singing. Every year there was a three day Retreat given by the Franciscans. Regular visits to the Blessed Sacrament, rosaries and weekly confession were important parts of religious formation. They got a wonderful spiritual training, which stood to them all throughout their lives. 

Inter Cert 1933

In 1933 Molly and Julia and their classmates sat the Intermediate Certificate examination in Irish, English, Mathematics, History and Geography in the Secondary Top classroom.

Both could not praise the Presentation Sisters enough and hope that God will reward them.

In 1932, pupils from the school travelled by train to Tuam where there was a celebration for the Eucharistic Congress.  The older girls wore veils and the younger ones were accompanied by parents.

Life in The Secondary Top 1934-1936

S ummary of an interview with Masie Reynolds (nee Sherlock)

by her niece, Alison McGreal (nee Sherlock)

Dodging Potholes

In 1934, Nora and Maisie Sherlock (left) began their daily commute to attend the convent. They cycled the seven miles on rickety bikes, dodging pot-holes on the country roads. Maisie recalls how, on fair day mornings in the town, the students would have to weave in and out through the cattle to reach the school gate. They frequently fell from the bikes onto the rough ground and tears and bleeding knees were the norm.

Soothing words and hot sweet tea

One of Maisie’s abiding memories is being brought into the warm kitchen in the convent after a particularly nasty fall. With a soothing word and a cup of hot sweet tea from one of the sisters, the wounds on her knees were cleaned and dabbed with iodine. This was typical of the nuns’ kind nature and made a big impression on her.

She studied Irish, English, Maths, History and Geography. She excelled at creative writing in English.

The Teaching Staff

On the staff with Sister Xavier Curran were: Sister Cecelia who was kind and gentle, Miss Kelly and Miss Monaghan, all of whom were good teachers.

She brought a packed lunch to school each day and, along with others, took tea during the one hour lunch break in the Two Miss Monaghan’s café that was located opposite Hanberry’s hotel.

Strict Disciplinarian

Sister Xavier was an excellent teacher but was a strict disciplinarian. She had a stately posture and students could tell by the look on her face in the morning what kind of form she was in. Pupils who failed to attend regular confession and communion were sent around to the other classes and had to admit this omission publicly. Sister Cecilia usually came to the rescue by halting this parade in her classroom and telling the student to return to the secondary top room. There the defaulter was sent to sit in isolation at the back of the room.

The teachers sat behind a desk on a rostrum at the top of the room. Students sat two to a desk, which had a lid that could be raised and the under compartment was used to store the students’ books and writing materials. They were given plenty of homework consisting of essays, maths and reading.

Personal Interest

Rosary Beads and fond memories

She also remembers seeing the Sisters walking in pairs on the convent’s gravel paths, reciting the rosary in their long black habits while clutching rosary beads.

Following her time in the school, Maisie went on to have a long and successful career in nursing in the UK and locally. She retains fond memories to this day of Sr. Xavier’s selfless interest and encouragement.

Sister Marie Therése O’Brien

(Principal 1937-1947)

In 1937, Sister Marie Therése O’Brien became the principal. She received her secondary education as Lily O’Brien and was a boarder in the Presentation Convent, Tuam. Even then she was a kind and dignified girl and she entered the presentation order in September 1938. Sister Colubanus, who was a junior pupil in the school, remembers her saying. ‘ I’m getting a months’ ladyship and I’m enjoying every moment of it. I get up when I like, I can go round where I like inside the convent grounds. When are you coming in?’ She trained as primary teacher in Carysfort College from 1932 to1934.

After founding the Presentation Convent in Tiernea, Connemara with three others in 1935, she was transferred to Athenry in 1937 and became principal of the Secondary Top. The Athenry girls had the highest opinion of her kindness to and understanding of them; her dedication to hard work and above all her prayerful-like and ladylike demeanor. Many of her pupils became nuns; others got excellent employment. Long after leaving the school, pupils corresponded with her as they felt they owed her so much.

Secondary Top from 1937 to 1940

Late 1930s-Amalgamated Classes(Upper Primary, Secondary Top and Commercial)

Front, l-r : Rhoda Fitzsimons, Ena Doherty, Minnie Grennan, Philomena Flynn, Mary Waldron, Eithne O’Loughlin, Mary King, Nodlaig Manning and Bridie Curran.

2 nd Row, l-r : Maureen Tierney, Ena Spelman, Kathleen Brennan, Eileen O’Regan, Eileen Everard, Maise Hassey, Clemmie McGuinness, Ena Coen, Teresa Kenny, Maisie Curran and Noreen Hession. 3 rd Row, l-r : Kathleen Kavanagh, Bríd Glynn, Lucy McLoughlin, Annie O’Meara, Rita Murphy, Peg O’Meara, Kathleen Murphy, Bridie Mahon, Tess Coppinger and Mary Beirne. Back, l-r : Mary Cawley, Mary Caulfield, Mary Mooney, Chrissie Molloy, Mary Kelly, Peggy Molloy, Mairéad O’Regan, Kathleen Noone, Gretta Loughnana, Eileen Madden and Mary Fallon.

Photo: Gretta Kenny

1938-Secondary Top students

Ena Coen, Teresa Hession, Margaret Cloonan, Philomena Flynn,Teresa Kenny, Nora Coyne, Mary Mahon, Maisie Hassey, Violet Ruane, Rhoda Fitzsimons and Marjorie Murphy.

Peggy Walshe, Cissie Coppinger, Nora Kindregan, Monica Connolly, M. Callanan, Patsy Murphy, Laura Lally, Ena Cleary, Rosaleen Kenny and Philomena Kineen.

Aggie Coffey, Mary King, Nonie Kenny, Mary Burke, M. Collins, Phil Gannon, B. Burke, Bríd Collins, Bridie Mahon, T. Walsh and Mary Finn.

I entered the Top in 1937 where my teachers were Sr. Marie Terese and Annie Monaghan. (The Rev. Mother at the time was Sr Magdalen.). In 1940, I sat the Inter Cert in Tuam in the subjects: English, Irish, Maths, History and Geography.

My classmates were Majorie Murphy, Eileen O’Regan, Minnie Grennan, Violet Corbett, and Mary Mahon from Cross Street.

In 1937 (and probably prior to that also) pupils sat the Intermediate Examination in Dominican Convent, Taylors Hill, Galway.   At that time, French was not taught as a subject.  Instead, they studied Industrial History and Business Methods

1938 Intermediate Examination candidates: Detta Fahy, Carmel Jordan, Philomena Keane, Mona Kenny and Ena McGlade.

1939 Intermediate Examination Candidates: May Burke, Philomena Hynes, Nonie Kenny, Bridie Mahon and Kathleen Monohan.

1940 Intermediate Examination Candidates: Minnie Grennan, Teresa Kenny, Clem McGuinness and Eileen O’Regan.

Other Pupils of that time

Imelda, Nonie and Rosaleen Kenny, Craughwell;  Peggy, Cissie and Lily Forde, Killeeeneen;

Julia Cahill, Shanbally; Pauline Lally, Lily, Rita and Bríd Duffy, Attymon; Mildred Reynolds, Athenry; Kathleen Monaghan, Gloves;  Kathleen and Una Burke, Peggy Hession.

Commercial Class of 1942

 Eileen Regan, Rhoda Fitzsimons, Nodlaig Manning, Teresa Kenny and Minnie Grennan.

Secondary Top from 1940 to 1944

Sr. Angela Murphy’s memories

Mrs. Nora O’Malley McCluskey, a native of Cleggan, Co. Galway was a past pupil of Presentation Secondary School, Tuam after which she pursued a brilliant career. She  qualified as a Primary School teacher in Carysfort  College, Dublin.

Her first appointment was in Athenry, where Sr. Marie Theresa and herself worked in the Secondary Top in the Presentation School, which today is a well established Secondary School.  She died unexpectedly on the 16 th April 1943.     She was a sister of Sr. Alphonsus O’Malley, Presentation Convent, Galway.

Secondary Top in 1940s

Sr. Madeleine Houlihan’s memories

‘I went to Secondary School around 1943/44. I studied English, Irish, History, Geography, French, Drawing, Singing and Maths.

I did the Inter Cert twice because there was no Leaving Cert in Athenry.

Six or seven only sat the Inter. The best were picked, which was sad but she had so many to teach-Minnie Quinn (Cleary now), Gretta Kenny, Rosemary Fitzsimons, Margaret Morris. 

I was unsure as to what I wanted to do. I went to Tuam in 1947. I did the Leaving Cert there and had all the same subjects. I loved doing honours Maths.’

The Uniform , according to Sr. Madeleine, was a navy pinafore with box pleats.

The teachers were Sr. Marie Terese, who taught all subjects, Miss Glynn, who walked to school from Ballygurrane and taught maths. A Miss Burke came and played the melodeon. There was Drill on a Friday for a half hour consisting of exercises and marching in unison.

Secondary Top Pupils in 1945: Annie Allen, Gretta Cummins, Gretta Kenny.

Secondary Top Pupils in 1946: Molly Allen, Mary Jo Cahill, Margaret Kavanagh, Siobhán Keogh, Annie Curran. Mary Flynn, Josephine Cullen, Agnes Finn, Kitty Rooney, Julia Quinn, Josie Houlihan, Nuala Courtney.

  Commercial Class of 1946

Pauline Pollard, Angela Grennan, Nano Kennedy and ______ Lolo Houlihan, Nancy McNamara and Josie Cloonan.                                                     

Nano Kennedy did Commercial Class after 6 th Class in 1938.   The typing room was off the 6 th Class room and had two typewriters then. They went to the Cookery Room to do Shorthand and Book-Keeping and sat an exam at the end of the course.

Secondary Top 1945-1947

  After Primary School we moved into 7 th Class to prepare for Inter Cert, which I sat in 1948 in Tuam Presentation where we boarded for two weeks.

Sr. Marie Terese’s ‘Reflection on Life’ given to first years in 1946

Life is a story in three volumes,

The past, the present and the yet to be.

First we have read and laid away.

The second, we are reading day by day.

Third and last of the volumes three

Are locked away and God keeps the key.

Pupils in the Secondary Top room in 1947

Back row, l-r: Marie McHugh, Peg Bane, Sheila Barrett, Agnes Finn, Chris Kennedy Lydon, Anastasia Mulkerrins, Bridie O’Malley, Ann Connors, Annie O’Malley, Kitty Burke, Lulu Cunniffe, Rosaleen Fitzpatrick, Patricia O’Neill, Rosemary Fitzsimons, Gretta Kenny, Minnie Quinn and Nora Kennedy Lydon.

Left wall, seated, front : Bridie Nolan, Kitty O’Toole, Margaret Kavanagh, Della Hession, Julia Quinn (hidden), _________, Marie O’Loughlin and Josie Murphy.

2 nd row from left (seated): Maureen Haverty, Annie and Molly Allen, Mary Jo Cahill, Siobhan Keogh,        ?  Carr, _______Burke, ________, Eileen Higgins, _______, Mary O’Dea and Josie Loughnane. 3 rd row from left, seated : Mary O’Malley, Noreen Finn, Betty Ruane, Bridie Fitzpatrick, Bridie O’Toole and Kathleen Donoghue.

Right wall row : Vera Curran and Evelyn Houlihan.

Photo: Minnie Cleary (Quinn)

 After doing the Primary Cert. the vast majority of the pupils moved on to what was then called Seventh Class.   It was really the First Year of Secondary Top.   Pupils, who had completed Sixth Class in other schools around the county, some from as far away as Craughwell and Monivea, came into this class also.  There we were taught by Sr. Marie Therese and Miss Glynn.  

In this class, French was introduced as a subject as also was Art, which was divided into three categories, Pictorial, Design and Nature. 

At the end of two years, some students went on to study for the Intermediate Cert. while others opted to do a Commercial Course consisting of Pitman’s Shorthand, Typing and Book-keeping taught by Sr. Perpetua.  Since there was no Examination Centre in Athenry, students doing the Intermediate Certificate had to board in the Presentation Convent in Tuam for the two weeks duration of the exam.

  End of the Secondary Top

In 1947 the Secondary Top ceased to exist when formal secondary school education began with the recognition of the Presentation Secondary School by the Department of Education.

In September 1948 the Leaving Cert. Course was introduced for the first time in Athenry.   Classes moved to temporary accommodation of two rooms upstairs in the Canton Hall.  Teaching there were Sr. Rosario, Sr. Vianney and Sr. Marie Therese, while Sr. Celestine taught Art.  

At that time the Sisters were still enclosed so, at change of classes, a pupil would accompany one of the Sisters back to the Convent and walk back with another to the hall.  While studying for examinations pupils had classes on Saturday mornings.

In September 1949, the Fifth Year and Leaving Cert. students moved to a room in the Convent.  By June 1950 a new Secondary School had been built and the Junior and Leaving Cert Examinations were held there.

Thanks to the following for their contribution to this part of the story:

Sr. Alphonsus O’Malley, Julia Rooney, Monsie Kennedy, Gretta Kenny, Sr. Angela Murphy, Phil Gannon, Vincent Devally, Julia Keane, Teresa Kenny, Minnie Cleary (Quinn), Sr. Alphonsus Allen, Sr. Madeleine Houlihan, Eileen Holian, Clem McGuinness, Masie Reynolds, Sr. Evelyn Geraghty and Molly Clancy.

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Athenry is a medieval town located 8 km off the N6, the main Dublin to Galway road and20 km North East of Galway city. Athenry is recognised as a Heritage town since1992.

The Community was founded on 2 nd of January, 1908 from Presentation Convent, Tuam, Co. Galway, during the reign of Archbishop Healy. The Founding Sisters were Sr. Gertrude O’Sullivan (Castleisland, Co. Kerry), Sr. Catherine Story (Co. Wexford), Sr. Magdalen Costello (Dunmore, Co. Galway) and Sr. Anne O’Keeffe (Co. Carlow). The reason the community was founded was to work in Primary Education Mrs. Dolan and her daughter, who were the staff of the local school, were due to retire in December 1907. The invitation came from Canon Canton, in June 1907, who asked the Sisters “to instil into the children, solid Religious principles” (Letter1907).

The first residence of the Sisters was the Parochial House, situated in Old Church Street, between the Catholic Church and the Railway Station (on the site of the present convent). The first house belonged to Canon Canton who offered his own house to the Sisters and took apartments down the town until a new Parochial House was built. The house looked to be a five bed roomed house. In preparation for their arrival, some necessary works wee undertaken on the house in 1907. The Canon met the Sisters at the railway station and, after some prayers at the church, delivered the sisters to their new home.

The first school dates back to January, 1908 when the Sisters joined the staff of the existing Primary school in Abbey Row. This was already a state-run school – there were two classrooms and a teacher’s residence. Though Athenry was a substantial town and had a railway junction with a link to Tuam, it seemed to the cloistered Tuam sisters of the time like moving out into unknown territory. After their retirement in December 1907, Mrs. Dolan and her daughter continued to reside in the teacher’s residence. For a number of years, in order to preserve the strict rules of the cloister, the Sisters had to journey each day by darkened coach to the old National School at Abbey Row until a new primary school was built on the parish lands at the rear of the Convent. Their local contribution to the total cost of €1,054 was €876, an enormous sum for the time and almost 85% of the total cost. In meeting this they were helped solidly by the parishioners.

A convent primary school was built close to the convent in 1910 and a new wing and an Oratory were added to the convent in 1913. In the 1920’s the Sisters began to provide some Intermediate Education for the senior classes of the Primary school by establishing a Secondary Top . Music and commercial subjects were taught at first but the curriculum gradually widened, allowing four girls to proceed to Intermediate Certificate examination in 1930. From this on, for a further eighteen years, this facility was provided with great effect in the Primary School. Fortunately, the train service to Galway was good enabling some to journey to the schools there to complete their Leaving Certificate. Some other fortunate ones were able to go to a boarding school. The rest of the girls had to discontinue their education and look for some meager employment at home — or emigrate. In 1948 this was developed in a full Secondary school for about 100 girls .

In 1963 the Sisters were requested by local people to make the secondary school co-educational and this they did. The school was expanded between 1963 and 1968 when other post-primary schools in the region closed. New primary and secondary schools were opened in 1980.

New Primary School : Scoil Chrio Naofa was officially opened on 1 st September 1980. There was a need for a new school as the Convent school, built in 1910 had, by the mid-sixties, become over-crowded and, despite various renovations down through the years, was by then inadequate for the growing numbers on Roll. By 1976, negotiations for a new building were finalised between the Presentation Sisters and the Commissioners of Public Works. The site was provided by the Presentation Sisters. The calculated cost of the building was £176,000; of this amount, £19,555 was to be a local contribution and £156,445 to be paid by the Office of Public Works. A Finance Committee of parents and school staff collected the local contribution from people in the school catchment area, who very generously supported their efforts. September, 1 st , 1980 was fixed as the Opening Day. The school Band, trained by Sr. Vincent Canney, gave the guests a rousing welcome. The school was officially opened by Mr. Mark Killilea, T.D. and was blessed by Very Reverend James Canon Gibbons, P.P., Athenry, who celebrated the opening Mass.

New Secondary School – PRESENTATION COLLEGE, ATHENRY:  In 1948, arrangements were put in place to allow those who wanted to proceed to Leaving Certificate in Athenry itself to do so. This involved the registration of the school as a full-scale Secondary School and the broadening of the curriculum. There were 74 pupils in the school in 1949-50, with every prospect of the school growing further. The junior classes continued to be housed in the old primary school the building  [1] . The fourth and fifth year classes had to move to the Canton Hall on the street near the Church while one class was also contained in the small parlour in the Convent — a room no more than five metres by four. Nonetheless, the girls who joined these classes were forever grateful to the ‘nuns’ for what they did in providing secondary education for them, at a time when it was still a rare experience in the rural towns of the west.

All this time a new building, with five classrooms, was being erected on the school grounds by the sis­ters, from a combination of their own resources and local fund-raising. This building is still used today (2008) and is known as the Technology Block of the secondary school. The original intention had been that this building was to be two-storied but this was not feasi­ble, as funds were short. All decisions about projects like this, especially if finan­cial outlay was involved, were referred to the Presentation mother-house in Tuam and were subject to the sanction of the Archbishop. Financial constraints resulted in the building plan being modified and it was finished with a flat roof — and so it remains today. The facility, however, was ready for the second group of Leaving Certificate Candidates to sit for their examination there in 1951. Despite its limita­tions, it remained as the main building of the school until 1980.

The school population grew to 96 girls in 1952-53. The students cycled, or were transported, from places up to ten miles away – such as Craughwell, Monivea and Turloughmore. Some lucky ones were able to travel by the 8.15 am train from Ballyglunin Station, near Abbeyknockmoy.

What About the Boys ?

In the late 1950’s, when the number of convent schools in the diocese taking in boys had grown to six, the murmuring for a similar facility in Athenry was being heard from certain local people. The Presentation sisters in Headford had begun taking in boys as early as 1955. Sr Rita O’Toole, Principal from 1952-59, was favourable to the idea, if they could get the funds and the local support. Athenry, as a railway junction, had the benefit of a good rail service. Train schedules to Galway made it possible for children from Athenry to attend these schools without much difficulty — even if they had to miss part of the first class in the morn­ings. Some boys, even those of Primary school age, had attended Galway schools in the 1930’s. So, boys had been quite accustomed to travelling to Galway. Others travelled by bus to the De La Salle Brothers’ school in Loughrea. The tradition of travelling was therefore established and, thus, the urgency for secondary accommodation for boys in Athenry was not as great as in more remote towns and villages in the diocese. However, the desire for education was there. In 1933-34, in a corner of a primary school-room, the parish priest, Canon Michael Conroy, had taught a few boys a little Latin, Geometry, Algebra, History and Geography. The boys were selected by the teacher. Some of these boys secured scholarships, and later attended St Jarlath’s in Tuam.

However, by the end of the 1950s, there had been no development of secondary education for Athenry boys. Whatever might have been happening elsewhere, the Parish Priest, Canon McGough, who was then in his eighties, was not in favour of a mixed secondary school. He had hoped for a separate school for the boys. As late as 1959, a Vocational school in Athenry was still only a concept in the distant future at meetings of Co Galway Vocational Education Committee, though some day facilities had been available in Athenry since the 1940’s. The town did, however, have a Hotel School, under the VEC, with boarding facilities for about sixty boys. In November 1959, the VEC announced that plans would shortly be drawn up for a Vocational School in Athenry. It was not to be completed, however, until the late 1960’s.

In September 1959, Sr Rita O’Toole, the Athenry Principal, had been moved to Carraroe to set up a co-educational school there. The people of Athenry could eas­ily say: ‘and why not us?’ The new Parish Priest of Athenry, Canon Conor Heaney, appointed in 1961, had previously been President of St Jarlath’s College, Tuam, for fourteen years, so he was a man committed to education. He did his best to hasten the provision of the Vocational School, but progress remained so slow. As he moved among the people he became aware of their desire for a co-educational full secondary school, where boys also could have the benefits of secondary education to Leaving Certificate level.

Up to 1964, the Presentation Sisters school had been such a no-go area for boys that many parents were astounded by the news in the late Summer of that year that boys would be admitted from September. The announcement came so late, that some of the boys had already booked their places in boarding schools but were immediately delighted to have a school now on their own doorsteps. And so, twenty five boys joined the 126 girls in the school which was henceforth to be called Presentation College, Athenry. A whole new era was now opening up.

Archbishop Walsh gave his support to the decision but did not, as in other schools, appoint a priest teacher. There was no male staff whatever but the curate of the day, Fr Martin Gleeson, became the chaplain and the very welcome trainer of the boy’s football and hurling teams which soon developed. For many years, the sisters had some difficulty in understanding and coming to terms with this new craze for foot­ball and hurling competitions, with the boys travelling to matches when they might be better off doing school tests, or whatever!

An Influx: In 1968, Sr Brid Brennan became Principal. Because ‘free education’ and ‘free transport’ had been announced by the Government in 1967, the school quickly swelled in numbers. As well as this, due to the closure of the short-lived co-educational in Coolarne, a contingent from that school arrived in September 1968. The Coolarne people and pupils, however, conscious of their separate identity, had demanded that their teachers, Martin O’ Grady and Maureen Coppinger would be transferred to Athenry ‘to look after their children’. The introduction of ‘free education’ followed in 1969. Another influx came in 1973 when a small Technical school at Newtown, Abbeyknockmoy, was also closed by the decision of the Department of Education. The result was that a school which had just 122 pupils in 1963 grew to 386 in 1969-70, and to 489 in 1975. It was a phenomenal growth – the school population had grown by 400% in 12 years.

The educational explosion in Ireland of the late 1960’s was made possible only by a new age of the temporary pre-fabs, of various shapes and sizes, all over the country. Because of the suddenness of the growth in the school, Athenry was very much on the receiving end of the pre-fab solution. Each year a few new pre-fabs were being added until, eventually, the number reached an incredible twenty three — occupying a space in the present car-park that was many times the floor space of the orig­inal school building.

In spite of new Government grants, much local effort in fund-raising had to be undertaken. All the time, pressure was mounting for a properly built, permanent school. The people of Athenry and the surrounding districts rose to the occasion. With the co-operation of the Vocational School, it became possible for the students to do such subjects as Woodwork, Mechanical Drawing and Agricultural Science. Later, Italian and Spanish were added to the curriculum.

At last, in 1975, the then Minister for Education, Richard Burke, sanctioned a large new school. The present school at Presentation College was completed with substan­tial Government grant-aid, in 1980 on what had been, until then, the school foot­ball pitch. The following year a massive gymnasium was provided by local effort.

The first lay Principal, Gilbert McCarthy, was appointed in 1988. By then the school had 575 pupils. As the sisters moved to new areas of pastoral work, their numbers in the school reduced to two. However, the ethos of the Presentation Sisters and their foundress, Nano Nagle, live on in Presentation College, Athenry to this day. Mary Forde was appointed as the second lay Principal in 2004. The school has now (2008) grown to over 700 students and there are once again a large number of pre-fab classrooms on the site.

The nearby Athenry Vocational school has also almost six hundred pupils, making a total of nearly thirteen hundred pupils attending second level schools in Athenry. The total number sixty years earlier was 75 — all girls.

Such was the vast change in educational opportunities in a town in rural Ireland in these sixty years.

[1] The old building was still to be seen in 2008 at the rear of the Convent. However, because of its deteriorating condition the building was due to be demolished in July 2008.

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Tomsk Oblast is a federal subject of Russia located in the southeast of the West Siberian Plain, part of the Siberian Federal District. Tomsk is the capital city of the region.

The population of Tomsk Oblast is about 1,068,300 (2022), the area - 314,391 sq. km.

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The development of this region began in the late 16th - early 17th centuries. The oldest settlement in the Tomsk region is the village of Narym, founded in 1596.

The town of Tomsk was founded as a military fortress by the decree of Tsar Boris Godunov in 1604. It was one of the outposts of the development of Siberia.

From 1708 to 1782, Tomsk was part of the Siberian province. In 1804, the town became the center of a separate Tomsk province, which included the current territories of the Altai krai, Novosibirsk, Kemerovo, East Kazakhstan, Tomsk regions and part of Krasnoyarsk krai.

In the 19th century, the growth of gold mining, smelting of metals, fur trade concentrated large capital in Tomsk, triggering a revival of trade. Important transport routes - the Moscow and Irkutsk tracts - passed through Tomsk.

In 1888, the first university beyond the Urals was opened in Tomsk, in 1900 - the Technological Institute, in 1901 - the first commercial school in Siberia, in 1902 - the Teachers’ Institute. By 1914, Tomsk was one of the 20 largest cities in the Russian Empire.

In 1925, the Tomsk Governorate was abolished and became part of the Siberian region. In the 1930s, Tomsk lost its administrative significance. In August 1944, the city became again a regional center.

During the Second World War, dozens of factories, educational, scientific, and cultural institutions were evacuated to Tomsk oblast and became the basis for the further development of the region in the postwar years.

In the 1950s, the first in the USSR nuclear center of the world level was created in Tomsk Oblast - the Siberian Chemical Combine. In the 1960s-1970s, oil production began on the territory of the region, a giant petrochemical plant was built - the Tomsk Petrochemical Combine.

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The climatic conditions of the southern and northern districts of the Tomsk region are markedly different. Almost the entire territory of the region is located within the taiga zone. The climate is temperate continental. The average temperature in July is plus 24 degrees Celsius, in January - minus 16 degrees Celsius. The climate in the northern part of the region is more severe, winters are longer.

The largest cities and towns of Tomsk Oblast are Tomsk (570,800), Seversk (105,200), Strezhevoy (38,900), Asino (24,400), Kolpashevo (22,200). Lake Mirnoye located in Parabelsky district is the largest lake. The main river, the Ob, crosses the region diagonally from the southeast to the northwest, dividing it into two almost equal parts.

The main industries are oil and gas, chemical and petrochemical, engineering, nuclear, electric power, timber industry, and food industry. All the machine-building and metal-working plants are located mainly in Tomsk and partly in Kolpashevo and Seversk. Oil is extracted mainly in the north-west and west of the region.

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Forests are one of the most significant assets of the region: about 20% (more than 26.7 million hectares) of forest resources in Western Siberia are located in Tomsk oblast. The timber reserves amount to 2.8 billion cubic meters.

In the Tomsk region there are 18.1 thousand rivers, streams and other watercourses with a total length of about 95 thousand km, including 1,620 rivers with a length of more than 10 km.

The main waterway is the Ob River. The Ob length in the region is 1,065 km. The main tributaries of the Ob flowing into it on the territory of the Tomsk region are the Tom, Chulym, Chaya, Ket, Parabel, Vasyugan, Tym.

Attractions of Tomsk Oblast

The sights of Tomsk Oblast include the harsh beauty of Siberian nature, the variety of winding rivers and canals, as well as monuments of wooden architecture, and other places that keep ancient legends about this land.

Undoubtedly, it is worth to visit Lake Kirek, one of the most beautiful reservoirs of the Tomsk region. It is located only 50 km from Tomsk. According to legend, a local millionaire drowned his diamonds here during the revolution in 1917.

About 40 km from Tomsk, there is a lake complex of the village of Samus consisting of seven lakes. These lakes are known for their very dark water, which is explained by the streams flowing into them from peat bogs.

Near the village of Kolarovo, located 33 km south of Tomsk, there is Siniy (Blue) cliff. It is a three-kilometer precipice descending to the Tom River. The cliff got its name due to the gray-blue shale that covers it. Several centuries ago, after the founding of Tomsk, a watchtower was installed on the cliff, from which signals were sent to the fortress.

At the source of the Berezovaya River, 40 km southeast of Tomsk, there is such an attraction as the Talovsky bowls, a natural monument of national importance. These are huge natural figures in the form of vessels of oval form, covered from the inside by birnessite - a rare mineral.

There is a tourist attraction of a global scale in the Tomsk region - the Vasyugan marshes, the largest marsh complex in the world. It is also called the “Russian Amazon”, because the Vasyugan marshes are not inferior to the famous South American river by their scale.

To the collection of sights of Alexandrovsky district of the Tomsk region, the most distant from the regional center, we can add Lake Baikal, the namesake of the famous lake, Goluboye (Blue) Lake, Malyye mountains (highlands) in the valley of the Vakh River and the Paninsky reserve, where the ancient burials of the Khanty and Ostyaks are preserved.

On the right bank of the Ob River, more than 200 km from Tomsk, the village of Mogochino is located. St. Nicholas Convent can be found here.

In Tomsk itself, plenty of monuments of wooden architecture deserve attention. In total, there are more than 700 objects, including 109 monuments of federal and regional significance.

Also in the Tomsk region you can visit more than 100 museums (most of them are located in Tomsk). The most popular museums are the Museum of History of Tomsk, the Memorial Museum “The NKVD Investigative Prison”, the Museum of Wooden Architecture, the Tomsk Regional Art Museum.

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This Geography + Social Studies Country Study on Cambodia aims to introduce students (Middle School and High School learners) to this wonderful country in Southeast Asia. This Teaching Resource is a 14 slides PDF Digital Introductory Presentation on Cambodia (Southeast Asia; ideal for interactive board activities). Ideal learners for this Country Study on Cambodia are Geography + Social Studies students from 7th grade to 12th grade .

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