Figure 1.--This photograph of Edgeworthtown school was proabably taken in the 1950s. The boys do not wear a school uniform as such, but are all very similarly dressed.
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Figure 1.--This photograph of Edgeworthtown school was proabably taken in the 1950s. The boys do not wear a school uniform as such, but are all very similarly dressed. |
HBC is collecting information om indivicdual Irish schools. These repesentative schlools show the variety of school clothes and school uniforms worn by Irish boys. They also provide insightson schoolwear trends over time at thise schools.
I'm Irish and attended Carmels, a secondary day school. It was a single sex school up to 1980, and then was forced to become coed with enrollment declined. There was a minumin number of pupils to cualify for govenment grant aid. The Government required the school to be open to both sexes from the middle of 1980. It was a catholic school, but a founding member of the Nuns order who ran the school was from Scotland about a hundred years ago.
A photograph probably taken in the 1950s shows Edgeworthtown Primary School. It looks to be a small village primary school. There was no school uniform. The boys wear a wide variety of outfits. Some boys wear suits with ties. Other boys wear casual shirts and jackets. All the boys wear short pants and kneesocks, some with wellies.
Here we see the Ferrybank Boys' National School in November, 1928. It was located in Waterford, Ireland. One of Ireland's oldest cities, Waterford has a history of continuous
habitation since 914, when the Vikings established a settlement there. We are not precisely sure what a National school was in Ireland at the time.
An Irish reader reports on the Dublin school, St Mary's. The school was a secondary school. The uniform during the 1960s was a blazer with long or short trousers and kneesocks looking pecisely the same as a British grammar school at the same time.
HBC readers have provided various small snipets about their schools over time. There is not enough information yet to create separate pages, but their comments are worth noteing.
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