The early morning walks to school that I experienced in the late 1970s have never really receded into the past, as they are revived every time I connect with any part of the Metals, the lanes that run parallel to the railway lines from Dalkey to Dun Laoghaire. As we lived near Sallynoggin, at the… Continue reading When We Were Kings and Queens of the Road: Alan Lambert
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The Ghost of Halloween Parties Past
This week we’re featuring some photos taken by Michael McCarthy of a Halloween Party some 50 years ago in Trinity College Dublin. Thank you to Michael for sharing! Want to be featured as part of our Halloween event? Send us your memories and pictures now at cbrowne@museumofchildhood.ie to be featured on our website and socials!
Halloween Memories – Connie Hurley
This week we’ve received some wonderful images from Connie Hurley, who remembers her childhood Halloweens fondly. “For the longest time as a very small girl I dressed everyday in my ‘fairy princess getting married’ outfit. I would go to the shops in it with my mum, take my big sister to school in it, go… Continue reading Halloween Memories – Connie Hurley
When We Were Kings and Queens of the Road: Dr Martina Devlin
FINDERS, KEEPERS – Martina Devlin I learned about the concept of turning in lost property as a result of my walk home from school one day. It was a mystifying notion – instinctively, my acquisitive little brain preferred the ‘finders, keepers’ version. Our family lived close to Loreto Convent Primary School in Omagh, at that time based in a clattery old building on top of a hill, while our house was at the bottom. The school journey… Continue reading When We Were Kings and Queens of the Road: Dr Martina Devlin
When We Were Kings and Queens of the Road: Peter Keane
Reminiscences of my daily schooldays journey Back in the day (the late 1950’s, many moons ago), I lived on Oliver Plunkett Avenue, Monkstown Farm. I attended pre-primary school in Convent Road and CBS Primary and Secondary on Eblana Avenue, Dun Laoghaire. Every schoolday I walked to Dun Laoghaire with my sisters, and walked back home… Continue reading When We Were Kings and Queens of the Road: Peter Keane
When We Were Kings and Queens of the Road: Dr Richard Hogan
I started walking to school with my brothers when I was five years old. Bag wobbling around my back, mother nervously waving us off. Down the muddy patch us adventurers traversed, the morning light breaking over the roofs of grey houses in Shamrock Lawn, friends joining as we slowly moved towards school. Talk of homework,… Continue reading When We Were Kings and Queens of the Road: Dr Richard Hogan
When We Were Kings and Queens of the Road: Laura Connolly
My very first trips to school, I was lucky enough to live only a fifteen-minute walk from our lady of good counsel Girls National School Woodley Rd, Johnstown, Glenageary. As a young child in primary school, I used to walk with my mum, sister and brother. We would spend our time talking and laughing the… Continue reading When We Were Kings and Queens of the Road: Laura Connolly
When We Were Kings and Queens of the Road: Paul Johnston
I grew up in a small market town in the Scottish Borders. If you drew a line from Edinburgh to Newcastle roughly half way along you’d find Galashiels, which means, in old Scots, “dwellings by the river Gala.” It sits at the confluence of the Tweed and Gala rivers, not far from Sir Walter Scott’s… Continue reading When We Were Kings and Queens of the Road: Paul Johnston
International Literature Festival Dublin
Children’s Books and Authors During the month of May, an exciting celebration of literature is happening in Merrion Square, which showcases the works of authors from all over the world. This will be the festival’s twenty-seventh year and the biggest to date, with over 230 events revolving around various literary subjects. The most exciting news,… Continue reading International Literature Festival Dublin
When We Were Kings and Queens of the Road: Aaron Sunderland Carey
Ag dul ar Scoil I went to primary school in Gaelscoil Bhaile Munna in the 2000s. At the time the school was made of prefabs, big green cardboard box looking classrooms. The school was in Coultry, and we lived over at Sillogue, so my Ma used to drop me to school in her car most… Continue reading When We Were Kings and Queens of the Road: Aaron Sunderland Carey