National Schools – Colin Brady

1920 Teaching Notebook of Mary Mulreany

It’s taken me longer than I had hoped to get this second volume posted but here it is; the notebook used in 1920 by my great-grandmother, Mary Mulreany, for lessons at Niall Mór National School in Killybegs, Co. Donegal.

Teaching notebooks of Mary Mulreany, Killybegs

Mary Mulreany (1878 – 1954) was a schoolteacher in Killybegs, Co Donegal. Two of the notebooks that she used for preparing lessons survive, although in somewhat battered state. Mary was the daughter of John C Ward, another national school teacher in the area who was involved in the revival of the Irish language, and MaryContinue reading “Teaching notebooks of Mary Mulreany, Killybegs”