Old Primary school Irish books 1988-1995

toner40

captain caveman wrote: »

we had these too.. all i can remember was the illustrations were god-awful!!

Hi If you still have any of these books I would love to get my hands on them as they are still used in my kids school but they are very difficult to come by. Thanks

Fabio

kraggy wrote: »

Figure it Out
Busy at Maths
Footprints (history)
Gluais Liom

Remember them well...gees I should never have come on here I feel old haha!

bullets

Another Classic:
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Anyone remember a set of books they were fairly thin book ,
One was Green and White the other
more advanced one was Brown and white
that had Irish Phrases in them with some B/W line drawings on some pages.

There was also an Orange Coloured Grammer Book with
Past Tense, Future Tense etc etc that you had to memorize like the
tables.

~B

Casei11

Jaygon2009 wrote: »

Bun go Barr came in around 1995 I think and the series has been revamped since, probably keeping in line with the revised syllabus in 1999.

great book,they shoul dhave had an irish version of tara and ben!

irish_bob

fergusm76 wrote: »

I remember Away to Fairyland in 1st
Myth and Magic in 2nd
Treasure Seekers was in there somewhere (possibly 5th)
The others are a blur

silver springs was another one , the arrival of the new school books was an eagerley awaited event when i was a nipper

Dr. Feelgood

good memories in here, even though i probably hates those books at the time!

Kojak

bullets wrote: »

There was also an Orange Coloured Grammer Book with Past Tense, Future Tense etc etc that you had to memorize like the
tables.

~B

Was there not another grammer book with a purple colour that done the same thing (i.e. Past, Present and Future tense in irish)? I can't say I remember an orange coloured book, but I do remember a purple one.

Newbie87

Anyone remember an English reader that was about a mammy and daddy and 2 kids and then later on in the series they had a baby...the teacher had a large sized reader...Cant for the life of me remember any more information on this. I also remember ispini agus subh and bun go barr also a maths book with a clown on the front juggling numbers and come and see and my friends, they had the religion songs at the back, the tapes where all the kids sang like muffled angels!! Must see if my primary school teachers remember anymore, some still work there and they taught me from junior infants!!

Dull and Boring

Purple Gorilla wrote: »

omg I remember Tara and Ben!!!

http://homepage.eircom.net/~seaghan/book/intro.htm

aww, Tara and Ben:) Didn't they have a cousin Conor too?

I also remember Rírá, Mici in other books. What were the names of the other 2?

Bun go Barr

and Tús na Gramadaí(awful)

Niles

Kojak wrote: »

Was there not another grammer book with a purple colour that done the same thing (i.e. Past, Present and Future tense in irish)? I can't say I remember an orange coloured book, but I do remember a purple one.

Ceart Litriú? Not sure if I spelt that right (ironically!). There was also Ceart Litriú 2, with a green cover.

I remember having Siúil Liom and Rith Liom in 1st and 2nd class, I found the drawings disturbing for some reason (the same artist did some stories in the Magic Pencil (3rd class English), I think it was a Flat Stanley extract. In 3rd class we had Bun Go Barr (1996/97) so that must have been around the time the change took place.

Oh and Tara & Ben FTW! Who could ever forget the story about the toothpaste factory overflowing (which now that I think about it made no logical sense as surely they would have run out of raw material before it got to that extent - major plot hole).

I did work experience in a primary school later on, now instead of Tara & Ben they had "Len & Jen", which were some kind of blob creatures. Seemed like they dumbed down the course, having the main characters as humans must have been seen as too complicated for Infants to understand by then.

In 6th class we had three maths books, Busy at Maths, Figure it Out and some other one, Sums Okay sounds familiar for some reason...

bomlane

a friend in his 80's is keen to re-read a school book named OLD JOHN- HAS ANYONE HEARD OF OR GOT ONE.

An Riabhach

We started off with the series of "FÁS" books up to 4th class I think.
Then a new series of Irish schoolbooks came out,with names like Féasta,Coillte,Sléibhte,Tonnta and Gleannta.

We had workbooks called Bí Ag Obair and Lean Ag Obair.
We also used Anseo Is Ansiúd réamhleabhar and bunleabhar.
I think all books were written by C.S. Ó Fallúin.