Ann and Barry books

SantaHoe · 03-03-2004 8:15am

Originally posted by Lukin Black
We had the Anne & Barry books for English, and the Áine agus Rónan ones for Irish.

Blast from the past:

Jesus, I haven't seen that cover in almost 20 years... mega-flashback & shudder.

gucci · 03-03-2004 1:39pm

ann barry......at bottom of page,new words on this page section ann barry

a source of much bullying by me being actually called barry and a girl in my class also havin the similar misfortune of being called ann....wasnt as pretty as the one in the book either

byte · 04-03-2004 12:47am

I have 2 of my primary school books (still!).

My infants one had Tom and Nora. And a dog called Spot.

Another one has Bess and Sam. That book was printed in 1978! :eek: Though I didn't start primary school until a few years after that.

Unpossible · 04-03-2004 2:08pm

wasn't there Diramuid an Dragún ? and Pól, I think Pól was a snake or a worm

BigO · 09-03-2004 12:19pm

i'd say he was a worm cause good ol' st. patrick got rid of snakes.

yeah remember in tara and ben when thier friends (conor) dad's toothpaste factory exploded and it went everywhere,

I also think conor owned some sort of speakeasy or a convienience store.

Holly and Dusty were the cats and dog's alright!

I actually remember whatthe first page looked like showing our two lead stars in their grey school uniform.

I was a good bit ahead in tara and ben and got to read the one with the polar bear in a hot air ballon, ( now that was one underground scripture). Wrote by the same crew as tara and ben but it was wild!

i remember the irish book as well it was crazy! monkey men and all!.
In one of the irish books at one stage they had a story call - An Doppelganger. some wild stuff about a nazi escaping some POW camp and having a replacement, well thats how i enterpret it!

oh well.... better not reminisce much more or will never stop

simu · 10-03-2004 11:40pm

We also had Peter and Jane Ladybird books at school for extra reading once you were done with the Ann and Barrys - I used to read them really fast but no matter how fast i went, there waere always more and more to read. Argh!

I also remember a certain Lug agus Lag in Irish - one was a bald old guy if I tremember correctly and the two used to topple on top of each other all the time. Hmm, that sounds a bit dodgy actually.

Plus, in english, there were books like Myth and Magic and Silver Springs that had Greek Myths in them - Midas, Icarus and so on. That knowledge of classical culture has stood me well over the years!

Then, Irish grammar books - Tar Liom, Éist Liom, Siúl Liom and so on - full of lovely exercises. Anybody remeber the cartoons in Tar Liom? They were hilarious - the drunk driver one and the boy eating his breakfast and surprised by a chicken popping out ogf his egg - the look on his face was priceless!

Last but not least, we had weird English books from South Africa (I think) that we used after we had gone through the standard schoolbooks - I remember a spider from Tanzania or Jamaica or something who went on a voyage on a boat or something!

BigO · 11-03-2004 12:10am

That south africa book sounds wild!!!

I'm abit younger, but i still used suil liom at some times, its was alot better than blaeden, bun go barr, That was a crazy book always had easy q's at begining then real hard ones at the end!

when I was doing the leaving cert last year I really needed to know my basics in Irish in german and I dug out good old osbourne book - german for begginers!

Sounds stupid but the picture with the labels for the holiday resort actually saved my ass I scraped passed with a d2 in higher level, all I needed

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LoneGunM@n · 23-03-2004 12:25pm

I must have a root around in the storage, because I'm sure I saw a bag of my old school books when I was in there last.

I loved the Ann & Barry books! Strangely, when someone mentioned Ann & Barry on the Farm, I got a strange shiver up my back :dunno: I'd completely forgotten about that 1, but I remember now that I loved it

Hope it's in with all the old school books. I'll sit down tonight & relax for 3.5 minuted whilst I read it

jill_valentine · 25-03-2004 5:00pm

Theres something very Children-of-the-damned about Anne and Barry. Silver Spring etc. were great though.

But christ how I hated that projector. we'd just learn the stuff off by heart and have no idea what we were saying. What benefit is that? Plus our projector caught fire repeatedly...f*cker was lethal.

Nala · 26-03-2004 4:25pm

Ann & Barry-The Movie.
RTE should cash in on us retrokids.:D

jill_valentine · 26-03-2004 4:40pm

#Jink-ke-Jink-jink-jin-inkjinkih
#Jink-ke-Jink-jink-jin-inkjinkih

This Summer...

#De DWEH DEH!

Ann is going to....

#Deh Dweh, De Dweh, De Dweh- didi didi dih did id DWeeeeeH#
#(Di dwih di di DOooooo)

KILL BARRY.

The fourth book by CJ Fallon.

I hear the black and white pages will be colour here...

LoneGunM@n · 27-03-2004 11:11am

Originally posted by jill_valentine
#Jink-ke-Jink-jink-jin-inkjinkih
#Jink-ke-Jink-jink-jin-inkjinkih

This Summer...

#De DWEH DEH!

Ann is going to....

#Deh Dweh, De Dweh, De Dweh- didi didi dih did id DWeeeeeH#
#(Di dwih di di DOooooo)

KILL BARRY.

The fourth book by CJ Fallon.

*rotflmao

pork99 · 27-03-2004 9:01pm

I'm afraid Ann and Barry mean nothing to me. As a mixed infant in the early 70s Ladybird's Peter & Jane books were the thing. Does this make me a West Brit?

Happy Days

Whatever became of Peter & Jane? Did Peter emigrate to South Africa in 1976 and go to work for some dodgy arms company? Did Jane marry some up and coming BP executive who began to neglect her after a few years forcing her to turn in her despair to gin and lesbianism? Do I need to get out more?

Other Ladybird books were a formative influence, the "People at Work" series among others. I owned or borrowed from kindergarten the ones about the Soldier, the Sailor, the Airman, the Fireman and the Policeman. I loved the Soldier one, when I was 5 or 6 I wanted to be a soldier when I grew up. I know it was about the British army but the uniforms & equipment at the time were identical to the Irish soldiers I saw in the street or on RTE. It had those photo-real illustrations of tanks and so on. I swear I remember there was an illustration of a couple of squadies in the Yemeni desert wearing desert camouflage and playing darts. I could not wait to be 17 so I too could drive around in a tank and play darts in the Yemeni desert.

it is, as you might expect, full of tanks, guns, rockets and other exciting bits of machinery. Today’s high technology is not much in evidence; "all regiments of the army have radios in case the telephone wires get broken". The engineers have an especially exciting job; "radios, watches, telphones, rockets, tanks and helicopters are among the many things that the soldiers mend in their workshops". However, nowhere in the book does it mention that the ultimate job of the fighting soldier is to kill people.

and the Airman book

It clearly wasn't a good idea to tell the kiddies that the Vulcan Bomber was routinely armed with nuclear weapons, but we learn that the two pilots "take turns at flying the bomber" and that at Biggin Hill, they are tested "to see if they are clever enough to fly aircraft"!

People at Work series

this says it all really;

"When we were kids, we thought that we'd all have jobs like the ones in the Ladybird books - a policeman with a torch, a fireman ... It just didn't work out like that. They showed all the old British industries, too. What would they do now? They'd have to have a picture of some call centre in Asia."

DMT · 28-03-2004 12:59am

There was a spin-off follow up about different people who had a dog called Rover who got a new dog house...

T.G Catter · 10-04-2004 12:22am

there were four books in the ann and barry series,
ann and barry
happy days
lots of fun
fun on the farm

fitzgerp · 29-06-2006 5:15am

Ann & Barry (the new Mellenium)

Bullock99 · 29-06-2006 5:17am

Legend stuff .... Very funny

numorouno · 02-07-2006 11:50pm

fitzgerp wrote:

Ann & Barry (the new Mellenium)

rotfl hahahahahahaha

Mrs. MacGyver · 03-07-2006 6:02pm

sunbeam wrote:

We had Pol agus Niamh

aaaahhhh the memories. didnt pol agus niamh have a black dog? Ann and Barry i've all the books in the attic at home. There was aa series of them and i think one was called ' on the farm' and we had a box to put our special words in. Mine was an oxo cube box.

GAA widow · 06-07-2006 5:28pm

Sandi wrote:

Wow, that was back in the days!
Does anyone remember the Irish equivalent? Aine agus Ronan?

Colm agus Nuala

Pól agus Síle

GAA widow · 06-07-2006 5:32pm

sunbeam wrote:

Did anyone else have those slideshow as gaeilge things where the entire class had to recite a different storyline by rote each week? Torture! QUOTE]

The "teiligóir" to be precise!

Lorraine B · 16-07-2006 6:28pm

Does anyone have some of the Ann & Barry or Peter & Jane books that they don't want? The little girl of a friend of mine has a reading difficulty and is making more progress with those older type books! Any ideas where to get them??

emeraldstar · 19-07-2006 10:03pm

blahblah wrote:

Seo ì Ann, Seo è Barry,

Tà mammaì sa chistin, tà daddy sa ghàirdìn

wow how long has it been since you've done irish?? That's not a fada!! á <---that is!!

Onion11 · 04-08-2009 9:21pm

Hello Ann & Barry fans!

Here is something that should interest you. Also, if anyone has the original Ann and Barry books (especially the first one) we would love to have it.

Thanks,

Onion11

Hey Guys & Dolls,

Many of you may have heard about Talking Shop Ensemble, the company recently formed by graduates of the Drama course in Trinity. Talking Shop focuses specifically on the idea of the ensemble and methods of theatre-making that move away from traditional, towards site-specific, devised and non-textual pieces. Process is a paramount factor and collaborating with other practitioners and non-theatre artists is a recurring feature.

Their first professional production will premier in the Absolut (Dublin) Fringe Festival: Sep 7th-12th. Here's the details:

Ann and Barry: What Kind of Time Do You Call This?

“Ann likes cake. Barry likes jam"...
"Ann likes coke. Barry likes birds".

New words we learn today: coke and birds.

As middle-class suburbia spirals towards excess our childhood friends struggle to figure what the point of it all is. When the news of a devastating fire ruptures Mammy’s 50th birthday celebrations, a moment of uncertainty forces the pair, so close in childhood, to explore the events that have shaped them; as we realise that in real-life; there is never such thing as a story-book ending…

Allow Talking Shop Ensemble to bring you on a trip through the campus of NCAD, flitting between past and present and fusing drama, dark comedy, visual arts, music and dance. This searing dissection of contemporary Irish culture continuously begs the question - "just what kind of time do you call this?"

Fundraising…We Need Your Help!

Acceptable in the 80’s

A Fundraiser for "Ann and Barry:What Kind of Time Do You Call This?"
by
Talking Shop Ensemble

THIS Sat, Aug 8th, 8:00pm in Toners on Baggot St.

Ann and Barry - Boppin' to the New Romantics!

€8/10 Entry

Help Ann and Barry put a few pennies together while letting your hair down in Dublin's oldest pub...
80's themed night, with music, fun and treats to bring those memories flooding back. Dressing up in your trendy 80's get-up from the first time round is optional, I'll be wearing denim, shoulder pads and a leotard... There'll be karaoke with all the greats from Cyndi Lauper and a deadly New Romantics D.J. set to keep us all bopping till we're kicked out.

*****PRETTY Pleeeease come support us*****
- Show quoted text -

earlyevening · 05-08-2009 1:04pm

What about before Ann and Barry? My memory is of Kevin and Tara and of Pol agus Niamh in my Irish reader. It was pretty much the same stories/families/incidents.
I started primary school in 1980.

Onion11 · 05-08-2009 6:39pm

I remember Peter and Jane, and Pol agus Aine!

Elle Victorine · 05-08-2009 7:17pm

Haha Ann and Barry eh? I also vaguely remember an irish equivilent in existence but I didn't have it. THat's a blast from the past though

IPWS · 10-09-2009 12:48pm

I went to see Anne and Barry on Tuesday - excellent production - clever, though provoking and well executed - well done all involved.

Max_Damage · 11-09-2009 8:11pm

I remember the projector! Man, I had forgotten about it until I read through this thread today!

Dixie Chick · 14-09-2009 5:00pm

We had Lucy agus Lorchain as our first irish duo i school, things in school were so easy until 1st class and the dreaded Busy At Maths was introduced!

LPI · 24-03-2010 8:58pm

BigO wrote: »

i'd say he was a worm cause good ol' st. patrick got rid of snakes.

yeah remember in tara and ben when thier friends (conor) dad's toothpaste factory exploded and it went everywhere,

I also think conor owned some sort of speakeasy or a convienience store.

Holly and Dusty were the cats and dog's alright!

I actually remember whatthe first page looked like showing our two lead stars in their grey school uniform.

I was a good bit ahead in tara and ben and got to read the one with the polar bear in a hot air ballon, ( now that was one underground scripture). Wrote by the same crew as tara and ben but it was wild!

i remember the irish book as well it was crazy! monkey men and all!.
In one of the irish books at one stage they had a story call - An Doppelganger. some wild stuff about a nazi escaping some POW camp and having a replacement, well thats how i enterpret it!

oh well.... better not reminisce much more or will never stop

Ooh I vaguely remember the Doppleganger story as well. Remember expected it to be good but was an awful let down!!

gagiteebo · 24-03-2010 9:10pm

Does anyone remember the Christmas annuals that we used to get in national school? I remember being soooo excited when I saw the box arrive in the classroom, everyone would be dying to open them. They were full of crosswords and cartoons and puzzles etc I think one was called Siamse or something to that effect....good times

Ruu_Old · 24-03-2010 9:13pm

Sonas or Sugradh were the other ones I think.

efb · 24-03-2010 9:14pm

Spraoi was the other one

gagiteebo · 24-03-2010 9:15pm

That's them! Thanks

RayM · 24-03-2010 9:40pm

According to this, they still do the Christmas annuals (at least as recently as Christmas 2008 anyway).

gagiteebo · 24-03-2010 10:43pm

RayM wrote: »

According to this, they still do the Christmas annuals (at least as recently as Christmas 2008 anyway).

Brilliant

Fair play for finding that! I might get a few for old time's sake

Thomas828 · 28-03-2010 8:51pm

sunbeam wrote: »

I vaguely remember Peter and Jane (Ladybird books methinks) and Pat and Ann too.

Yes indeed. Peter and Jane and their dog Pat were a staple of my reading in my early youth in the 70s. In fact I came across a couple of them in a charity shop yesterday, '2b - Have a Go' and '3b - Boys and Girls'. Those Ladybird books are still in print, only now they have more up-to-date illustrations. For example, Peter and Jane's dad drives an Austin Maxi in the old books. I don't know the make of the car he drives now.

carlovian1 · 11-05-2010 10:27pm

can anyone tell me what was the name of ann and barrys dog please its really bugging me ???

Daisy Steiner · 11-05-2010 11:45pm

carlovian1 wrote: »

can anyone tell me what was the name of ann and barrys dog please its really bugging me ???

Was it Bran?

Who went on to star in his own spin off book series :cool:

carlovian1 · 12-05-2010 2:56pm

Daisy Steiner wrote: »

Was it Bran?

Who went on to star in his own spin off book series :cool:

thats what i was thinking but the name Rusty keeps coming to mind too (not sure why)

ah feck why did i bother reading the whole thread about ann and barry haha gonna have my head wrecked now

!!!

efb · 12-05-2010 9:32pm

Ann and Barry had a dog????

I thought it was just jam!

AisMul · 16-06-2010 12:28am

I think the dog was called Rover.

I have vague memories of (even then) thinking "maaaan...that's so unoriginal!"

Jaygon2009 · 16-06-2010 3:55am

Ann and Barry got the dog as a puppy in 'Happy Days' (Stage Two : Book One)

His name was Rover.

Agent Smith · 16-06-2010 3:58am

Jaygon2009 wrote: »

Ann and Barry got the dog as a puppy in 'Happy Days' (Stage Two : Book One)

His name was Rover.

how on earth do you remember that?

Jaygon2009 · 16-06-2010 4:08am

I have rounded up some of the books, I've been collecting older primary school books for the last year or so. Ann and Barry very har to find but I have two of the four books.

maude6868 · 25-06-2010 11:23pm

Anyone remember Tom and Nora with their dog Spot, would be from 70's Primary school

maude6868 · 27-06-2010 11:41pm

maude6868 wrote: »

Anyone remember Tom and Nora with their dog Spot, would be from 70's Primary school, still hav som Peter and Jane books knocking around too.

Owen · 27-06-2010 11:50pm

Thought I posted in this thread before, but obviously it's the other older Anne & Barry thread. My neighbours kid had to do a project for his Teaching Degree, and you guessed it, he did a Tom and Nuala projector reel. Tom and Nuala are having a Picnic, Tom and Nuala are walking the Dog, Tom and Nuala are kicking the ball.

I was Tom, my next door neighbour was Nuala. Think there's still a copy of the projector film in Beaumont Girls School in Cork. Once the lads in Beaumont Boys School found out, I wasn't left alone for months - the ribbing I got over that!

komodosp · 29-06-2010 11:01am

Does anyone remember the Irish equivalent? Aine agus Ronan?

No but I do remember Rírá agus Óró..

Ann and Barry books

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