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1970s

50th Celebration

MDG in the 1970s
Here are some photos from the 1970s.
Do you recognise anyone?

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Many thanks to Mrs. Lyons (Farrell) our current Senior Infant teacher and past-pupil for sharing these photographs of the 1970s.

You can see photos of Sr. Eileen Mary (Principal Girls School), Sr. Benen (Principal Infant School), Sr. Leonard and Mrs. Boran (vice-principal) in this slide show as well as photos of Mrs. Lyon's own First Communion.

Please turn to the past-pupils' page for more photos from the Farrell family album.




Third class trip (Ms. Prendergast, Ms. O'Grady and Ms. McCarthy) to Greystones and Glen of the Downs in June 1976.

Can you spot Ms. Prendergast and Ms. O'Grady?




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Ms. McCarthy and Ms. O'Grady's third class trip to Portmarnock beach in September 1976.


There were many mini-basketball tournaments in the late 1970s and early 1980s. These photographs were taken in Newtownmountkennedy and on Djouce Mountain in 1977.

The teachers you see in the photos are Ms. D'Arcy (Mrs. Kavanagh), Ms. McInerney, Sr. Leonard and Ms. O'Grady. Other teachers there on the day were Ms. Kelly (Mrs. Coughlan) and Ms. McCarthy.

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Mrs. Mary Titley's (Fitzgerald) fourth class in 1970. This is their Confirmation photograph. The Whelan and Miley twins are in the front row. Many thanks to Anne Staunton for emailing this photo to us.

Ms. Quinlan's Confirmation Class 1971
Thank you to Mary Foley (Whelan) for this photo.

Many thanks to Ann McDonnell for this photograph of Ms. Quinlan's 1972 Confirmation class.


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