What was the Primary school Irish book called?

Pettals

Hey everyone...

I was just thinking today about primary school and irish and all that. I'm just wundering does anyone remember what one of the Gaelic books were called..

Was it " Luch agus Lucy" ? about the two mice??? Does anyone remember?

It's really starting to bother me that i can't remember.. Ease My Pain!!

Thanks

xXx

Feral Mutant

I think I remember that. Was there a worm called Pol as well?

spurious

What sort of time frame are you talking?

Ruu_Old

Feral Mutant wrote:

I think I remember that. Was there a worm called Pol as well?

That definitely is ringing a bell, time to put on the kettle, it is going to be a long day.

WindSock

I only remember Ann and Barry, but that was in English. Sorry, not much help.

Bratach Bán

Yeah, Lucy Luch and Lorcan Luch, the two mice, and Pól Péist, the worm.

Woul have been around 1989 when I used it.

Ruu_Old

Would it have been on a projector? Now there is some memories.

Hard Larry

I remember those mice alright...late Eighties I think.

Remember Busy At Maths with that freaky dude on the cover?

I went to an Irish speaking school can't remember the translation for it.

I remember just at the peak of the Nineties they introduced us to a book called 'Deco' about a skinhead from Gardiner Street.

Damn just had a serious flashback just now to a book called 'Footprints'

Its scary what your brain stores for years.

WindSock

Hard Larry wrote:

I remember those mice alright...late Eighties I think.

Remember Busy At Maths with that freaky dude on the cover?

I went to an Irish speaking school can't remember the translation for it.

I remember just at the peak of the Nineties they introduced us to a book called 'Deco' about a skinhead from Gardiner Street.

Damn just had a serious flashback just now to a book called 'Footprints'

Its scary what your brain stores for years.

I do remember busy at maths and the wierd guy and also there was a bee on one, I think.
Footprints rings a bell. Was it an English book? we also had an english book called argos, with a picture of an old ship on it (the argos, I presume)
Dont know about Deco though.

Did anyone ever get spraoí, suas and siomsa though? I used to love them.

Ruu_Old

I think we had Solas (actually maybe Sonas?) and Súgradh, they came a few times during the year.

Agamemnon

Hard Larry wrote:

Remember Busy At Maths with that freaky dude on the cover?

I had forgotten it until I saw your post. Now I can remember Figure It Out and Maths Challenge as well.

Can't remember the Irish one the OP is asking about though.

Ruu wrote:

Would it have been on a projector? Now there is some memories.

Ah, the projector. I think the Irish for it was telegór (sp?).

Kojak

Ruu wrote:

I think we had Solas and Súgradh, they came a few times during the year.

Weren't they some sort of monthly magazines?? I think there was also a Christmas edition

As regards the National school irish books, I think we had books with an elephant, a monkey and some other animals - I think the monkey was called mickey. Sounds strange now, doesn't it?

Ruu_Old

Kojak wrote:

Weren't they some sort of monthly magazines?? I think there was also a Christmas edition

As regards the National school irish books, I think we had books with an elephant, a monkey and some other animals - I think the monkey was called mickey. Sounds strange now, doesn't it?

I still have them here, Mici (monkey), Lulu (elephant) agus Rira (fox). There is actually one of them going into a shop and knocking a load of sweets on the floor and the shop keeper chasing them out, what were the trying to brainwash us with?!:eek:

ciaran76

What about Far A or Fas B etc etc.
Anyone remember those books ?

c - 13

Kojak wrote:

Weren't they some sort of monthly magazines?? I think there was also a Christmas edition

I think you could be thinking of Spraoi! it was an annual released yearly in a combo of Irish and English, I think there was another one (or more) released for the younger/older classes.

I think I remember Footprints - it was a religion book wasnt it ?

I remember those Irish ones now too ! I think that one of the more advanced ones was called Bun go bár ?

stovelid

ciaran76 wrote:

What about Far A or Fas B etc etc.
Anyone remember those books ?

I remember the FAS ones mate. I thought I was the only one who went to a hedge school

spurious

I taught with the guy who wrote Deco - it was based on the kids in our school.

We used to get Sonas and Siamsa annuals.
In primary we had crappy little pictures with sandpaper on the back of them that the teacher used to stick to a screen that had stuff on it that was for all the world like a few pairs of black tights stretched across a frame.

Kojak

Ruu wrote:

I still have them here, Mici (monkey), Lulu (elephant) agus Rira (fox). There is actually one of them going into a shop and knocking a load of sweets on the floor and the shop keeper chasing them out, what were the trying to brainwash us with?!:eek:

Ah, the memories

C-13 I think Bun go Bár was for fifth and sixth class, AFAIK

Sinfonia

Had one called 'Ispíní agus Subh' (Sausages and Jam)

Hard Larry

spurious wrote:

I taught with the guy who wrote Deco - it was based on the kids in our school.

We used to get Sonas and Siamsa annuals.
In primary we had crappy little pictures with sandpaper on the back of them that the teacher used to stick to a screen that had stuff on it that was for all the world like a few pairs of black tights stretched across a frame.

Thats wicked about Deco!

And we had that nylon board with the sand paper pics too!

I remember those Solas and Siamsa magazines...

I'm not 100% but I've reawakened an old memory that is telling me the Freaky Guy in the Busy at Maths book was called Mathso...ring any bells for anyone?

440Hz

Remember Spórt, with the dog, the yellow puppy.. there was an English version called Spot! Thats going back a few years hehe

c - 13

Kojak wrote:

Ah, the memories

C-13 I think Bun go Bár was for fifth and sixth class, AFAIK

Yeah, I found out last night this is the book my brother used in 5th/6th class (he's 18)

WindSock

All probably published by Folens. Heh. was watching a doco about Nazis in Ireland recently, and the Folen man had a big play in it. Cant remember if he was one or if he harboured them.

Stirling

This is showing I need to get a life but I used to work selling schoolbooks so know way too much about this to be healthy.

The Irish books were part of a series by Folens, they only really stopped printing them about three years ago and thats a major pity cos the Grammar in Vocab in them was brillaint, the stuff that they've been replaced with is diabolical. The series, as far as I remember it went as follows:

Tus Re - Very Ist Irish Book people would have had it was a an A4 Book with a picture of Lusai Luch in a Hot Air Balloon with the words "Tus Re" written on the Balloon part
Lusai Luch - Blue Book with Lusai on the front, I think on a scooter
Pol agus a Chairde - Red with a Picture of Pol Peist and his mates on the front
Ispini agus Subh - Either Yellow or Grey, can't be totally certain
Tine Chnamh - Picture of a big bonfire on the front of a Blue Book, was meant to be a 5th Class Book only but the Irish in it was pretty advanced so a lot of schools used it over two years and never got Spaslong
Spaslong - Grey Book with a picture of a spaceship with fire shooting out on the front

I think there are a few I'm missing at the beginning of the series cos the colours went yellow then red and I think there were a few more than one of each colour cos they were divided into "Ceimeanna" or steps of difficulty. Now that I think of it I think that the whole series might have been called "Dreimire" or ladder.

The Irish Language version of Busy at Maths was called "Gafa Le Mata", as in "Hooked on Maths"!, and they're still in use at some Gaeilscoileanna cos it took a long time for the major Primary School Maths Books in use now, Action Maths, to be published in Irish as "Mata Beo".

Busy at Maths/Gafa le Mata wss a CJ Fallon series rather than a Folens one.

Ok having just shown that I really have no life to know that much about old schoolbooks any questions just let me know - kinda miss selling the things, was one of the nicest Summer jobs you could ever have

Ruu_Old

Do you remember Postcard from the Stars, Stirling? I think I had it in 4th class, it was an English grammar book I think.

Stirling

Not offhand Ruu.

Most Primary School Books are based on Series, especially the English ones so all the grammar books, readers and workbooks will come under the under the one series. The Fallons English books, old and new, are called the Starways series and they used to all have the same characters for most of the series. Do you rememeber Tara and Ben and their dog called Holly. If the book you're on about is part of the series I'm thinking of then they would have been the main characters

WindSock

Thats fantastic Stirling. Do you know if there is any website that would have these old books with the pictures, for memory lane purposes?

Ruu_Old

Don't remember the characters at all or the publisher. Would love to see some pics of the old ones as well for those of us who are still stuck in our primary school years. My Mam has been a primary school teacher for ages, must nag her and find out some more.

In primary school in maths we had Figure It Out and Busy At Maths but we had bees on the covers, I don't remember any maths character at all. For English we had Peter & Jane, Ann & Barry and I'm sure we would have had some form of text book too. In Irish we had the projector, Anseo Is Ansúid, and Spoit. At Christmas we would get Síamsa. I'm fairly certain for History the book was called Pathways (I remember one of the years it had the dragon of Tara on the cover). Also in Irish class, we had a double side chart called a Glancecard. Basically it was all the verbs with all their tenses, and various other frequently used phrases etc. Geography has completely slipped my mind altogether but I'm sure it will come back to me when I'm not thinking of it!

Feral Mutant

Ruu wrote:

Do you remember Postcard from the Stars, Stirling? I think I had it in 4th class, it was an English grammar book I think.

I remember that. Definitely an english book, I think it had a bunch of short stories with questions, may have had grammar exercises as well. I'm trying to remember what the Postcards from the Stars story was about. Does a story about an alien that lived in motorbike engine sound familiar?

Yeah I remember Bun go Barr. Don't remember the kids' names but I remember they had a sausage dog called Ispín.

superdudeman007

Kojak wrote:

I think Bun go Bár was for fifth and sixth class, AFAIK

I used it from Senior INfants to 5th class.

superdudeman007

Feral Mutant wrote:

Yeah I remember Bun go Barr. Don't remember the kids' names but I remember they had a sausage dog called Ispín.

Liam and Ronán were 2 of the kids. There was a dog called Ludo up to 2nd class, after that he was called Róló.

Anyone remeber letterland?:D

Kojak

superdudeman007 wrote:

I used it from Senior INfants to 5th class.

Well your school must have been more advanced than mine - we only used for the last 2 years, and even then we never finished either book :rolleyes:

Anyone have those "Springboard" (i think was their name) books for english?? AFAIK, there was a picture of a grey/white seal on the front of the 5th class book

Nightwish

In the 80's we had Rith Liom and Buail Liom for Irish. I always got those Súgradh books too. I loved it when they were delivered to the class because it meant a day of colouring and puzzles!

thelordofcheese

Hard Larry wrote:

Damn just had a serious flashback just now to a book called 'Footprints'

Wasn't that a history book? i'm almost sure of it...

Stirling wrote:

Spaslong - Grey Book with a picture of a spaceship with fire shooting out on the front

I remember that one, mostly because i think the spaceship was ploughing through space towards the sun, which always made me giggle.

Good times, good times.

There was a geography one, wasn't there? only i have no idea what it was, and i keep mixing it up with Spaceship earth from secondary school.

Science book in secondary school had a spaceship on the fromt. Think it was called Science For The Future.

Ruu_Old

The science book we had in secondary school was a ton weight (don't remember the name, could have been Science for the Future)! I think it was meant to do us from 1st-3rd year though, took up most of the bag.:(

Stirling

Wasn't the World of Science Ruu? Had a picture of a whirlpool on the front, black spine, red and blue on the front and gold text on the cover.

The character names in that were pure class "Fizz Hicks", "Kim Tree", "Bye-O-Lodgy" and "Borris Bunsen"

SeantheMan

Hard Larry wrote:

I remember those mice alright...late Eighties I think.

Remember Busy At Maths with that freaky dude on the cover?

I went to an Irish speaking school can't remember the translation for it.

Was called "Gafa le Mata ...addicted to maths :eek:

We used to learn french in primary every thursday aswell...dunno if any of yous did...but they used to show us a cartoon
A big furry green monster and a prince
MUZZI !!!!:D :eek:
Anyone remember him ?:p

Madge

Stirling wrote:

Wasn't the World of Science Ruu? Had a picture of a whirlpool on the front, black spine, red and blue on the front and gold text on the cover.

The character names in that were pure class "Fizz Hicks", "Kim Tree", "Bye-O-Lodgy" and "Borris Bunsen"

Yeah I remember that one! The names were pretty gas alright There used to be practical questions involving those characters after the chapters, they were hard enough. It was a massive book though and I remember there was loads of waffle or 'padding' as my teacher used to say, lol

Ruu_Old

Don't think we had that one, Stirling, sounds a lot more interesting than the rubbish we had. I'm just after remembering the Irish poems (or stories) that we learned "le Ruaidhri O' Baille". Teacher used to always stare at me when saying his name (mo ainm Ruairi).:rolleyes:
Figure it Out is another one from Primary school I think.

Nightwish

Wasn't Siamsa one of those books like Súgradh - kind of like a grown up verison of it (well in a 10 year old sense!)?

Stirling

Yeah I think there was three of those and it went:

Sugradh
Siamsa
Spraoi

in order of difficulty.

Ruu that means that the science book you had is the Folens one that came just before World of Science and that was Science for the Future - you were right. Would have been written by one, or some of, three people called Dorgan, Kennedy and Scott.

Ruadhri O'Baille's stuff is still on the go aswell!

billy the squid

Ruu wrote:

The science book we had in secondary school was a ton weight (don't remember the name, could have been Science for the Future)! I think it was meant to do us from 1st-3rd year though, took up most of the bag.:(

If it was pink in colour then it was probably Scienceprobe, it was nearly 600 pages and weighed a ton.

In our school we had Figure it out by a guy named Tom Roche, the examples were rubbish you would have needed to be a scientist to understand his books. We changed to the busy at maths books. the bee was on all the books within the title, and there was also a picture below the title. one of them was an odd looking man juggling numbers.

Peter and Jane were published by ladybird, we did these in the lower classes and moved on to a series called Hopscotch. The hopscotch books also had a workbook for each of them.

Dont ask me the names of them but they had different colours

book 1 - blue
book 2 - red
book 3 - purple
book 4 - Green
book 5 -grey
book 6 - brown

Book four in the hopscotch series was Hansel and Gretal.

Footprints was part of the Rainbow series of english books.

For Irish we had a series of books called Seal ag Leabh (sp) These had accompanying workbooks called Seal ag obair.

For history we had a series of books called Living In The Past. The way these books depicted the history of Ireland and britain you would be forgiven for thinking that they were written by a member of Republican Sinn Fein.

I can't remember the Geography books, but do remember in primary school we had to buy this heavy atlas.

RoundyMooney

No, Ruu is right. "Science for the Future" covered up to Inter/Junior Cert level IIRC.

I remember "Figure It Out" though, one two and three, if memory serves.

When was Explorations (English) phased out? Mid Nineties?

billy the squid

RoundyMooney wrote:

No, Ruu is right. "Science for the Future" covered up to Inter/Junior Cert level IIRC.

I remember "Figure It Out" though, one two and three, if memory serves.

When was Explorations (English) phased out? Mid Nineties?

Figure it out went up as far as number 6.

It had all jigsaw pieces on the cover

Actually now that I think of it, iI think Tom Roche wrote busy at Maths as well.

RoundyMooney

Your memory is better than mine

"Reflections" just came to mind as well there (religion, I think).

WindSock

Science for the future was a heavy black book with a triangle shaped spaceship on the cover. My favourite illustration inside was the one of what a person would look like if they had no bones, I think it was a man inside a wineglass or something, I giggled furiously the other day when watching family guy, and the same thing happened to Peter Griffin.

Dyr

"gafa le mata" my hate affair with maths started right there :mad:

Anyone remember " A treasury of english?" That rocked. Picture of a pirate on the cover opening a treasure chest?

Or the other older english language books..mostly short stories. dark cover. longer than it was wide?

shane86

Stirling wrote:

The character names in that were pure class "Fizz Hicks", "Kim Tree", "Bye-O-Lodgy" and "Borris Bunsen"

You knob, you have just m,ade me belly laugh in the middle of an otherwise quiet workplace

Jaysus I remember nearly all of these mentioned, even the one with the mice (15 odd years, christ)

I recall the name O.D Morris as the author of the maths books throughout secondary, seeing as I had thoughts of murdering him most likely (I probably tried my hardest in LC at ord level maths, which i was retarded at, and tried my least at honours English. The fact I breezed through English and got a B2 and got a D3 in maths says it all for this ,mad world)

Giblet

I've used or seen most of these books. Madness. Just before the Flouride and the Micra-T