February 1, 2009. James MacNerney’s article, for some electronic reason, could not be uploaded from Ireland. The website administrators in the US are pleased to accommodate a request from John Flynn – a regular correspondent – that it be uploaded here. Most of all, we are profoundly grateful for James MacNerney’s article - a task today - a [...]
Hi, I would very much like to talk with others on-line regarding the priests who were connected with The Latin School in Moyne. I’m definitely related with two of the priests: Rev. James Gray (pages 49-50) and Rev. James Dobson (page 363) and I’m quite sure but not yet positive that Rev. William Gray [...]
July 17, 2008 To: thelatinschoolmoyne.org Past Pupils’ Website “Authors” From: Website Administrators Re: Posts Welcome, again, to the Moyne Past Pupils’ Website. Over thirty persons have registered; by registering, each person became a Subscriber and, subsequently was moved to Author status. Authors are invited to write, manage and publish their own posts. The computer-generated password [...]
Homily for The Latin School Reunion Mass St. Mary’s Church, Moyne, County Longford, Ireland July 5, 2008 Bishop Colm! My Latin School Brothers and Sisters! Women and Men of Moyne! It was indeed an inspired decision, as we can see today, the decision of the three Moyne men, Pat Brady, John Joe McNamee, and JJ [...]
KEYNOTE ADDRESS AT THE LATIN SCHOOL (MOYNE) REUNION July 5, 2008 Good evening. When Pat Brady first suggested we organize a LS reunion, we had no idea how to go about it, and no budget to make it happen. Even when JJ Smyth joined us, we still didn’t. But we found a [...]
Summer Solstice 2008 On this significantly long day with a long technological hurdle now vanquished, I announce the birth of an Interactive Blog Website that belongs exclusively to us, the past pupils of the Latin School at Moyne:http://www.thelatinschoolmoyne.org. It invites you to “SHARE YOUR MEMORIES; WRITE HISTORY”. To use the site, it is necessary to [...]
MOYNE PAST PUPIL’S GENERAL REUNION 2008 Not even the marvels of a modern website like this one can capture the memories of the first experience of education beyond National School for hundreds of young people that took them from their native places to an unforgettable school in Moyne, County Longford. Their many-layered memories still live [...]