Each year the Departments of Education (T.I.B.)
set single subject examinations which were intended primarily
for students who were attending Evening classes. However, it was
the practice in Carlow Technical School and in many other of the
larger schools and Technical Colleges throughout the country, to
encourage Day students to sit for them in addition to the Day
Group Certificate series. Our students invariably did well, some
outstandingly so, as the following statistics show:
|
1948 |
Mary Looney |
1st place in Ireland |
Book-keeping |
|
1948 |
Pauline Sheehan |
do |
Shorthand |
|
1948 |
Maureen Fitzroy |
do |
Book-keeping |
|
1949 |
Mary Noctor |
do |
Shorthand |
|
1949 |
Mary Looney |
do |
Arithmetic |
|
1951 |
Maureen Fitzroy |
do |
Shorthand (Adv.) |
|
1952 |
Siobhan O'Neill |
do |
Commerce |
|
1953 |
Siobhan O'Neill |
do |
Typewriting |
|
1953 |
Loretto Haughney |
3rd place in Ireland |
Typewriting |
|
1954 |
Veronica King |
1st place in Ireland |
Book-keeping |
|
1954 |
Gerald Nash |
do |
Workshop Tech. |
|
1955 |
Veronica King |
do |
Arithmetic |
|
1955 |
Josephine Murphy |
do |
Commerce |
|
1955 |
Joseph Brennan |
3rd place in Ireland |
Mathematics |
|
1956 |
Ann Birmingham |
do |
Irish |
|
1957 |
Martin Nevin |
1st place in Ireland |
Fitters Work |
|
1959 |
Mary Morrissey |
do |
Cookery |
|
1959 |
Christy McGrath |
do |
Workshop Tech. |
|
1959 |
Michael Greegan |
2nd place in Ireland |
Motor Vehicle Theory |
|
1960 |
Mary Morrissey |
3rd place in Ireland |
Shorthand |
|
1960 |
Edward O'Brien |
1st place in Ireland |
Book-keeping |
|
1961 |
Thomas Kelly |
2nd place in Ireland |
Woodwork |
|
1961 |
Thomas Kelly |
do |
Drawing |
|
1961 |
John Sharpe |
3rd place in Ireland |
Metalwork |
|
1961 |
John Sharpe |
do |
Drawing |
|
1961 |
Peter Flood |
1st place in Ireland |
Turners Work |
|
1962 |
Michael O'Neill |
2nd place in Ireland |
Mathematics |
|
1963 |
Edmund Cox |
3rd place in Ireland |
Woodwork |
|
1963 |
Edmund Cox |
do |
Drawing |
|
1963 |
John Sharpe |
1st place in Ireland |
Machine Drawing |
|
1964 |
Mary Kelly |
do |
Bread making |
|
1965 |
Michael Broderick |
do |
Mechanics |
- In addition to the above, the following apprentices who
passed through Carlow Technical School, were selected to
represent Ireland in International Trade Competitions against
the cream of the world's craftsmen:
|
1963 |
Seamus Thornton |
competed in |
Duisburg, Germany |
|
1965 |
Toddy Kelly |
do |
Glasgow, Scotland |
|
1968 |
tom Cloury |
do |
Berne, Switzerland |
|
1971 |
Liam Corrigan |
do |
Tokyo, Japan |
|
1973 |
Dermot Scully |
do |
Munich, Germany |
|
1977 |
Pal Byrne |
do |
Utrecht, Holland |
|
1979 |
Pat Pender |
do |
Cork, Ireland |
|
1981 |
Liam Shore |
do |
Atlanta, U.S.A. |
Source: Transcribed by J. J. Woods 2009 from
"Carlow Through the Eyes of a “Blow-in” by Pat O'Mahony"
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