My Leaving Certificate 1959

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2022
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Hyland, Áine
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I sat the Leaving Certificate in 1959 at the end of six years in a convent boarding school run by the Sisters of Mercy in Ballymahon, Co. Longford. It was a small school with 100 students, 90% of whom were boarders. The annual fee for boarders was £50. Because I had won a county council scholarship my secondary education was free – which was just as well as there were thirteen children in family, ten of whom were younger than me.
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Leaving Certificate , Ireland , 1959
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Hyland, Á. (2022) 'My Leaving Certificate 1959', Leader, Summer 2022.
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https://hdl.handle.net/10468/17747
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Education - Journal Articles
Education - Áine Hyland Works
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© 2022, the Author. Published by the National Association of Principals and Deputy Principals.