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St Louis High School, Rathmines
St. Louis High School is an all-girls secondary school located in Rathmines, Dublin. History The school was founded in 1913 by the Sisters of St. Louis, a religious community of nuns which was founded in post-revolutionary France in 1842. The school crest symbolises loyalty to the French crown. An edited collection entitled ''We were happy there: Hundred Years of St Louis High School Rathmines'' by Ita Daly describes the experiences of being a pupil at the school. The school and others originally established by the Sisters of St. Louis are now under the trusteeship of The Le Cheile Schools Trust. Le Chéile formally came into being on 1 September 2009 and offers a network of support for all St. Louis schools and staff. Motto There are two school mottoes. The primary motto 'Dieu le Veult' which is old French for 'God Wills It' - the rallying cry of the Crusaders. The second motto is 'Ut sint unum' - for 'that they may be one'. Academics In 2018, the school was ranked four ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rathmines
Rathmines () is an affluent inner suburb on the Southside of Dublin in Ireland. It lies three kilometres south of the city centre. It begins at the southern side of the Grand Canal and stretches along the Rathmines Road as far as Rathgar to the south, Ranelagh to the east, and Harold's Cross to the west. It is situated in the city's D06 postal district. Rathmines is a commercial and social hub and is well known across Ireland as "flatland"—an area that has provided rented accommodation to newly arrived junior civil servants and third-level students from outside the city since the 1930s. In more recent times, Rathmines has diversified its housing stock and many houses have been gentrified. Rathmines gained a reputation as a "Dublin Belgravia" in the 19th Century. Name Rathmines is an Anglicisation of the Irish , meaning "ringfort of Maonas"/"fort of Maonas". The name Maonas is perhaps derived from Maoghnes or the Norman name de Meones, after the de Meones family who settled ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nessa O'Mahony
Nessa O’Mahony is an Irish poet and a freelance teacher and writer. Life and work Born in Dublin, she was educated in St Louis High School, Rathmines before going on to University College Dublin to study English. She was a recipient of the Mary Colum Award for being the highest placed female student in English Literature for the BA in 1984. O'Mahony worked as a journalist in RTÉ Aertel and Lafferty Publications, before switching to public relations with roles in the Irish Insurance Federation and Arts Council (Ireland), where she was Head of Public Affairs (1999-2002). She began writing poetry in 1994. She published her first collection of poems, Bar Talk, in 1999, and was a regular presenter on the radio show Writers Inc. Anna Livia FM from 1997 to 1999. She returned to full-time education in 2002, completing a Masters in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia (2003) and a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing at the University of Wales Bangor in 2006. Since t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Secondary Schools In Dublin (city)
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Éilís Ní Bhrádaigh
Éilís Ní Bhrádaigh (1 April 1927 17 May 2007), writer and lexicographer was involved in the creation of three major Irish-language dictionaries. Biography Éilís Ní Bhrádaigh was born Alice Brady to Francis Brady and Elena Nolan in Fairview, Dublin, on 1 April 1927. She was one of four, with a brother Christy, and two sisters, Áine and Margaret. Her father was involved in 1916 Easter Rising and her uncle Christopher printed the Proclamation of the Irish Republic. Ní Bhrádaigh got her education, first in St. Mary's School, Marlborough Street, Dublin near where the family lived before they moved to Cabra, Dublin. She then attended St Louis High School, Rathmines. After winning the Coiste na bPáistí Gaeltacht Scholarship Ní Bhrádaigh spent time in Connemara, Co. Galway to study Irish. Ní Bhrádaigh went on to join the civil service where she got a position in the dictionary section in 1945. There Ní Bhrádaigh worked with Tomás de Bhaldraithe and became friends ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kelly Thornton
Kelly Thornton (born 13 April 1997) is an Irish actress who began her career as a child actress. She is best known for her roles as Corrina Mallon in the 2015 RTÉ drama '' Clean Break'' and Emma in the film '' Life's a Breeze'' (2013), which earned her an IFTA nomination for best actress. Early life and education Thornton is from Terenure, a suburb in South Dublin and attended St Louis High School, Rathmines. She has a younger sister Robyn. She was discovered when she was 14 whilst shopping on Grafton Street with her friends by a casting director who invited her to audition. Career Thornton made her screen debut in the 2013 Irish comedy film '' Life's a Breeze''. She played the role of Emma, the main protagonist, alongside fellow Irish actors Pat Shortt and Fionnula Flanagan. The film was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. Thornton earned an IFTA nomination for her role, as well as receiving the Bingham Ray New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Riordan
Ann Riordan (17 July 1947 – 5 March 2021) was a pioneering woman who fought for equal pay and rights. She was an early married woman who returned to work and went on to become the first general manager of Microsoft Ireland. Biography Born Ann Kelly on 17 July 1947 Riordan was the daughter of a CIÉ mechanic, Joe Kelly, and seamstress Lillie Kelly. Lillie taught in The Grafton Academy. Riordan had six siblings. The family grew up in Dublin in Rathfarnham. Riordan attended the St. Louis High School but left at sixteen before sitting her Leaving Certificate. Riordan left school to get a job with the Gas Company in Dublin. However almost immediately she discovered that the woman in Alliance and Dublin Consumers Gas Company were not being paid the backdated cost-of-living increase which had been agreed with the Irish Transport and General Workers Union. She discovered first hand the attitude to women as workers. She was a leader in compelling management to give the equal increa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marian Richardson
Marian Concepta Richardson (born 1954) is an Irish television and radio presenter and producer. Background Richardson grew up in Dublin with her sisters Barbara and Helen and brother Seán. She attended school at St Louis High School, Rathmines. Career Richardson began acting when she was 10. At the age of 13, she performed in A Christmas Carol at the Gate Theatre. In 1968, she played Hedvig Ekdal in an RTÉ television production of Henrik Ibsen's The Wild Duck with Ann Rowan, Christopher Casson, T. P. McKenna, Blánaid Irvine, Geoffrey Golden, and Maurice Good. She worked for a period as a waitress in ''Captain America's'' on Grafton Street. In the 1970s, she moved to London, working as a freelance journalist for the BBC. After returning to Ireland, she presented the popular children's television series Bosco on Raidió Teilifís Éireann for 12 years. She then moved to radio, presenting ''Toss The Feathers'' on the newly-launched 2FM. She later worked on Morning Ireland, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betty Ann Norton
Betty Ann Norton (5 July 1936 – 5 June 2020) was an Irish drama teacher and founder of the Betty Ann Norton Theatre School and actor agency. Background Norton was born in 1936 and grew up in Dublin near the South Circular Road. Her mother, Frances, played the violin and her father, Eugene, was a baritone singer. Frances was a full-time homemaker while Eugene worked as manager of the Bacon Shops on Grafton Street. One of two children, her younger brother Jim Norton also became a successful actor. She attended school at St Louis High School, Rathmines. Training Norton attended the Ena Mary Burke School of Drama and Elocution on Kildare Street, Dublin, where Hollywood star Maureen O'Hara had also trained. Norton's acting school offers an annual Ena Mary Burke scholarship in Burke's honour. Norton was a Licentiate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (LGSM) in London and Associate of the Royal Irish Academy of Music (ARIAM) in Dublin. She was a member of the Dublin Shake ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dublin
Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of the Wicklow Mountains range. At the 2016 census of Ireland, 2016 census it had a population of 1,173,179, while the preliminary results of the 2022 census of Ireland, 2022 census recorded that County Dublin as a whole had a population of 1,450,701, and that the population of the Greater Dublin Area was over 2 million, or roughly 40% of the Republic of Ireland's total population. A settlement was established in the area by the Gaels during or before the 7th century, followed by the Vikings. As the Kings of Dublin, Kingdom of Dublin grew, it became Ireland's principal settlement by the 12th century Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland. The city expanded rapidly from the 17th century and was briefly the second largest in the British Empire and sixt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Enright
Anne Teresa Enright (born 11 October 1962) is an Irish writer. She has published seven novels, many short stories and a non-fiction work called ''Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood'', about the birth of her two children. Her writing explores themes such as family, love, identity and motherhood. Enright won the 2007 Man Booker Prize for her fourth novel '' The Gathering''. Her second novel, ''What Are You Like?'', was shortlisted in the novel category of the 2000 Whitbread Awards. Early life Anne Enright was born in Dublin, Ireland, and was educated at St Louis High School, Rathmines. She won an international scholarship to Lester B. Pearson United World College of the Pacific in Victoria, British Columbia, where she studied for an International Baccalaureate for two years. She then completed a BA in English and Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin. She began writing in earnest when she was given an electric typewriter for her 21st birthday. She won a Chevening Scholars ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Black
Mary Black (born 23 May 1955) is an Irish folk singer. She is well known as an interpreter of both traditional folk and modern material which has made her a major recording artist in her native Ireland. Background Mary Black was born into a musical family on Charlemont Street in Dublin, Ireland, and had four siblings. She was educated at St Louis High School, Rathmines. Her father was a fiddler, who came from Rathlin Island off the coast of Northern Ireland, and her mother a singer. Her brothers had their own musical group called the Black Brothers and her younger sister Frances would go on to achieve great success as a singer in the 90s. From this musical background, Mary began singing traditional Irish songs at the age of eight. As she grew older, she began to perform with her siblings (Shay, Michael and Martin Black) in small clubs around Dublin. Musical career 1980s Black joined a small folk band in 1975 called General Humbert, with whom she toured Europe and released ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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