Remember the old UL

Ginger

Something for those people whose ID numbers are less than 00

- The Schumann was the computer science building
- The nice shining sitting area in the Schumann where they know have a lab
- The room beside beside the paddocks was a games room (and the Frames played there for 50p one night!)
- £3 night club ticket and bus into town.
- Pints of Bulmers were 1.80
- Only 1 pub on campus
- The little nooks you could hide in the Stables
- Friday lunch time was always curry
- The SU shop was in glass alley at the Main block side of the Stables..
- The SU was in the Stable courtyard where the PostGrad place is now
- 1 pound nights in the Globe
- Drink promotions and free drinks at sporting events
- Everyone having floppy or zip disks
- The old library
- The old gates at the front of the university (linky)
- The big lawn in front of the main building where the library is now ()
- Cup of coffee costing 15p
- Rag week
- Ms Stokes attempting to close the place down
- Tall Paul playing in the plaza
- The snug beside the fire in the stables
- The Stables actually having stable parts to the counter.
- The massive meeting of people in the monet trying to get lighting on plassey road and cicle path (i went into the stables with a megaphone )
- The Scholars and the chillout sessions
- The whole An Phluais thing and everyone calling it the Scholars Function room
- People camping to get Rag Week tickets
- I Soc
- Assasin!!!
- Kilmurry was the new village


Some more when i think of em

kaimera

sceptre 93xxxxxx lol

Ginger

I had a 97 id number, and there was guy in my class with an 88.. but if i was to go back i would get my 97 id back

ninty9er

Those gates look cool...bring um back!!!

LOL at SCEPTRE though, he told me a few weeks ago he aims to be gone out of UL before a student enrolls with a 93 DOB:D:D

cooperguy

ninty9er wrote: »

Those gates look cool...bring um back!!!

LOL at SCEPTRE though, he told me a few weeks ago he aims to be gone out of UL before a student enrolls with a 93 DOB:D:D

He only has 3-4 years left so! He better get a move on!!

sceptre

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ninty9er

sceptre wrote: »

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Have you got that cold again??:p

cornbb

I ('00 id) was gonna say, no-one's that old, but Ginger and sceptre have proven me wrong

Ginger

Funneh... i have long since left (graduated in 2001!)... I am not old.. i am just well aged like a wine

Peteee

Agreed on the gates being cool. Bring em back

Ginger

They are the same as the east gates.. they were removed when the poles were erected.

I miss the lawn where the library is now, twas great in the summer to sit out there "studying".

Anyone remember the old entrance to the bank and the usit office beside it.

Ooooh and the old couches in the canteen... i miss them

justfortherecor

Ginger/Scepter, maybe ye can verify this.

Supposedly when the library was in the main building and study space was at a premium, people used to clamour for those orange felt sitting boxes scattered around the E block?
They would turn them on their sides and use them as an improvised study table?!

Heard this from a UL Alum, sounds hilarious to think of it now!

Ginger

Yup used to happen and not just in E block but all over the place.. remember studying in the D corridor outside the monet, and in the C corridor near the canteen...

zilog_jones

That still happens all the time with those boxes - I refer to them as "study forts". It's pretty much impossible to get a place in the library at exam time unless you're there at about half 8 or whenever it opens, or it's the repeat exams

Where was the old library exactly? I know it was in the A block, but which part? All of it?

- Ms Stokes attempting to close the place down

Yeah it looks like she actually gave up. Still in College Court AFAIK. She called the guards one night because we were talking outside the front door to some friends' house - even the guards found it funny.

I started in '03 and I'm doing a link-in for 4th year - and I thought I felt old! When I started everyone still used floppies and zip disks (what a load of shyte!), the student special in the Restaurant was €2.95 (it's nearly a fiver now!), most the PCs were PIIs and I didn't know a single student with a car!

- Assasin!!!

GSoc did this last year

Ginger

As far as I remember it was where they put those new offices in the A1 or A2 corridor. Never really used it much!

I thought she had moved out to Castleconnell no?

Another one thing that was there, was Wednesday afternoons after 1 being free for clubs & socs stuff

Ginger

And having only 3 sabbats .. Pres, Welfare, Education (did An Focal as well)

zilog_jones

Ginger wrote: »

I thought she had moved out to Castleconnell no?

She was still there last year AFAIK. I dunno, maybe someone equally angry has replaced her...

Ginger

I thought she was going for local politician job or something, but then again, i am not based in limerick any more and havent been for quite some time

rainbowtrout

Ginger wrote: »

They are the same as the east gates.. they were removed when the poles were erected.

I miss the lawn where the library is now, twas great in the summer to sit out there "studying".

Anyone remember the old entrance to the bank and the usit office beside it.

Ooooh and the old couches in the canteen... i miss them

The catwalk! People used to go the long way around when going through from C to A block to avoid being watched by all the people sitting on the comfy chairs.

How about using SUMS before e-mail was provided? I'm a 96***** myself.

I think the deal with the flag poles at the time was whoever was donating the funding for the poles said it would only be given on condition that the gates were removed..... why was it considered to be an improvement?

rainbowtrout

anyone remember the old sports building before they put those wooden tiles on the front of it?

Or that there was a road coming right up to the front of D-Block/Main Reception until they paved the whole area?

Ginger

Here are some of the older photos that i can find

http://www.csis.ul.ie/PhotoAlbum/ULgrounds/

Ginger

Do you mean

Funkstard

Ginger - cheers for the photos, love seeing what the place used to be like. There's quite an old aerial photo I noticed just the other day hanging up above the service counter in O'Mahony's (the one down by the stationary). Saw gravel car parks and all sorts of by-gone mayhem in it!

rainbowtrout

Funkstard wrote: »

Ginger - cheers for the photos, love seeing what the place used to be like. There's quite an old aerial photo I noticed just the other day hanging up above the service counter in O'Mahony's (the one down by the stationary). Saw gravel car parks and all sorts of by-gone mayhem in it!

ya, great to see them, i remember there used to be a car park beside old bank of ireland, where scholar's courtyard is now, and across the road where the pay car park is there used to be what could only be described as a shed, where we used to have horticulture.

bluedolphin

I'm a 04***** student meself, but I recall the old Stables/student centre as my dad works in the place and we used to be out there the whole time.

Also, we used refer to it as the 'Tollege' as when I was a kid he was working in the then Thomond College of Education...much too much of a mouthful for a 4 year old!

Used to go swimming in the pool in the PESS every Friday night religiously...

Then there was the annual staff family Christmas party in the Stables; so yes, I recall all the niches and when it used stretch further back to where Ulster Bank is now (I think?).... I won a Smurfs Christmas cassette for knowing all the moves to Whigfield's Saturday Night one year. And then there was the time that 'Michael Jackson' was there...except I believed it really was him. *sigh* Those parties were fun.

zilog_jones

Ginger wrote: »

Here are some of the older photos that i can find

http://www.csis.ul.ie/PhotoAlbum/ULgrounds/

Wow, everything's changed except for the bookshop! Looks exactly the same inside lol. I'm sure most the old buildings haven't changed much either outside the renovated areas and extensions, e.g. the carpet squares on the walls in the main building, wooden chairs in the Johnny Monnet, the sign in by the Fishtank saying "no smoking in carpeted areas please" (in a corridor with lino floor), etc.

Saw gravel car parks and all sorts of by-gone mayhem in it!

There's still at least 2 gravel car parks (by the east gate and across from IBC), and the one behind the Schuman which is entirely made of pot-holes.

Ginger

Remember the wall opposite the stables on the road... where the path is..

Somethings have changed alright.. just showing the older views of the place

rainbowtrout

Or to register for modules for the following term everyone had to use the four terminals near student services by the doors to the Jean Monnet.


I remember in my third year (98/99) i think, that they mucked up the whole timetable for the college, apparently it takes 9 months to produce a timetable for a semester and whoever normally did it had gone on maternity leave and nobody remembered to do it so it was thrown together at the last minute, result being people were assigned to lectures in rooms that didn't exist, or were directed to tutorials in broom cupboards.

Ginger

I remember those.. the old terminals and then going over to see what degree you got by SS etc... It was 2000 i think when they brought in the online registration..

sceptre

zilog_jones wrote: »

Where was the old library exactly? I know it was in the A block, but which part? All of it?

Main library all of A2, journals all of A3.

Oddly enough there were more study spaces in the old library than the new one, when they built it I went around and counted them. And with the closing of the study rooms in A1, there were definitely far more study spaces in the college in pre-Glucksman library days. Go figure.

Of course the Hunt museum used to be up on floor A3 before it got moved to what is now the PAC next to FB028 (before it moved into town)

Peteee

bluedolphin wrote: »

so yes, I recall all the niches and when it used stretch further back to where Ulster Bank is now (I think?)...

Woah, this I didn't know...sounds cool.

Still not as cool as the Scholars mind

JoseJones

anyone have pictures of the scholars? i've never seen it...

rainbowtrout

sceptre wrote: »

Main library all of A2, journals all of A3.

Oddly enough there were more study spaces in the old library than the new one, when they built it I went around and counted them. And with the closing of the study rooms in A1, there were definitely far more study spaces in the college in pre-Glucksman library days. Go figure.

Of course the Hunt museum used to be up on floor A3 before it got moved to what is now the PAC next to FB028 (before it moved into town)

The journals room used to be up on A3 as well. It was also possible to actually study in the old library, none of that open plan nonsense. Think the study rooms you are referring to on A1 were the rooms opposite the fishtank?? Remember having lectures in there after the new library opened.

Ginger

I miss the couches in the scholars..

zilog_jones

sceptre wrote: »

Main library all of A2, journals all of A3.

And with the closing of the study rooms in A1, there were definitely far more study spaces in the college in pre-Glucksman library days. Go figure.

Of course the Hunt museum used to be up on floor A3 before it got moved to what is now the PAC next to FB028 (before it moved into town)

That would explain why A2 and some of A1 looks different to the rest of the building. Must say I've never been up to A3 (keep forgetting there even is such a thing)

It was also possible to actually study in the old library, none of that open plan nonsense

I agree - the library sucks for studying. You can hear noise from everywhere, the whole place creaks in the sun, and there's always people talking. Books are crap too (well the computery ones are anyway).

When I was studying for my exams over the summer (had 4 I grades and an F :rolleyes: ), I rediscovered the study room in the Schrodinger - no one else seemed to remember the place as I was the only one there for weeks!

Ginger

Well in the Schrodinger its hard to know if you are alive or dead at any given moment... you dont see many cats there either..

I wonder if we can dig up some photos of the old stablai and scholars?

rainbowtrout

zilog_jones wrote: »

Must say I've never been up to A3

Aside from the Journals room on A3, don't know what's there now and the chemisty lab on B3 there was nothing else up there so many people never ventured to the third floor. however if you walk along the B3 corridor to the stairs that would be between B and C block you can go up again. There is no corridor, it only leads to broom cupboards etc at the top of the tower, but the old meditation room used to be up there (i think) until they moved it in beside the usit office/bookshop. And there used to be one of those orange yokes up there too, it was quite a coveted place to study, no disturbances ever.

The other place a lot of people don't seem to know about is the small corridor leading from the E block restaurant to D block that lets you look down on the Jean Monnet, think there was a desk there in my time.

Ginger

THe one that people used to wander through and annoy lectures by mooning them from it! I remember that one.. but wasnt that room usually locked

rainbowtrout

ya it was kept locked a lot, but if you were wandering around during the night (doing FYP, all-nighter) it was a good time to find places like that.:D

zilog_jones

That place is part of a corridor between the C and D block now (they moved some doors around and stuff a few years ago), so it's never locked.

rainbowtrout

zilog_jones wrote: »

That place is part of a corridor between the C and D block now (they moved some doors around and stuff a few years ago), so it's never locked.

oh ya i think they were revamping the medical section and that general area when i was leaving.

BossArky

Classic thread. I was a 98xxxxx.

Anyone remember the pints of Breo (yellow Guinness) which you could get in the Stables and were launched on promotion back around April to May of 99? I used to love the stuff but apparently it never caught on.

Other memories which stick out from my time at U.L.

- Spar roll ftw!

- working as a glass and ashtray collector in the Stables, and the associated fun (i.e. getting to clean toilets and pick pint glasses crammed with ****e out of the toilet bowls)

- Going to the Stables for what seemed like a never ending Murphys promotion. Pints were £1.50, so a tenner got you six and you still had a pound left over for a block of cheese and sliced pan the next day!

Never saw those fancy white gates before.

kingkane

I will refrain from state my ID no, but it is quite old and I remember the stables opening.

cooperguy

kingkane wrote: »

I will refrain from state my ID no, but it is quite old and I remember the stables opening.

:eek: thats a minimum of an 86xxxxx i.d.!!

rainbowtrout

kingkane wrote: »

I will refrain from state my ID no, but it is quite old and I remember the stables opening.

didn't the stables have it's 21st birthday there recently??!:)

kingkane

rainbowtrout wrote: »

didn't the stables have it's 21st birthday there recently??!:)

Yesss...it did.

Ascendotum

07xxxxx
The old UL sounds pretty cool. So which is better? As it is now or how it was?

Nutty

no stables 21st birthday isnt till april the well known band from the west who like the bail hay are playin for it
probably be week 12 id say

bluedolphin

Nutty wrote: »

no stables 21st birthday isnt till april the well known band from the west who like the bail hay are playin for it
probably be week 12 id say

Thursday, 17 April, methinks, which is teaching week 11... Don't crucify me if I'm wrong, however!

sushisushi

I'm not quite at the 8XXXXX level, but I'm amazed that anyone still remembers the I Soc - now that's how you run a society! I'm also a veteran of the big orange boxes and one of my classmates actually managed to spend a couple of nights sleeping in one, in one of the quieter corners upstairs in possibly the B block. I went back a few years ago and was gutted to find that the pool room and the ID shed had been replaced by some enormous science building and the Stables courtyard had acquired a canopy roof. Lightweights :>

T1890

Nutty wrote: »

no stables 21st birthday isnt till april the well known band from the west who like the bail hay are playin for it
probably be week 12 id say

Was that not April last year?? I was definitely in the stables for some form of birthday celebration...maybe it was the 20th