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Interviews

As part of this project some of the pupils in SHNS interviewed relations or friends and asked them about their own school days. Click on the table below to go to the interview of your choice.

Name Era
   
Luke Staunton the 30s
Meena Aspel the 40s
Marjorie Doherty the 40s
Bobby English the 40s
Margo Evoy the 40s
Seamas Doyle the 50s
Liam Turner the 60s
Jim Foran the 60s

Thankfully things have moved on over the last one hundred and twenty five years. When one examines the drawing (below) from 1879 which shows children carrying turf to school. This shows that schools had open fires to heat them. This explains why schools then had chimneys. Irish children in the early 20th Century had to bring fuel to school still.

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HISTORY

History helps us to answer questions about the past. It helps us to see how some things have stayed the same and how some things have changed.

 

ORAL EVIDENCE

Oral evidence is a vivid and immediate historical source which can be used to make incidents and aspects of the past real. People’s memories carry far more information than is often written down.
 
  

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