What was the Primary school Irish book called?

superdudeman007 · 31-03-2007 09:41PM

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 · 01-04-2007 12:21PM

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 · 01-04-2007 06:49PM

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 · 01-04-2007 09:38PM

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.

01-04-2007 09:44PM

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

Ruu_Old · 01-04-2007 09:49PM

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 · 02-04-2007 12:29AM

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 · 03-04-2007 12:49PM

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 · 03-04-2007 03:21PM

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 · 04-04-2007 06:31AM

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 · 04-04-2007 02:19PM

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 · 04-04-2007 09:36PM

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 · 07-04-2007 01:47AM

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 · 07-04-2007 01:56AM

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 · 07-04-2007 01:58AM

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 · 07-04-2007 02:32AM

Your memory is better than mine

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

WindSock · 07-04-2007 10:38AM

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 · 12-04-2007 11:56AM

"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 · 13-04-2007 01:37PM

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 · 14-04-2007 12:57AM

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

olaola · 14-04-2007 11:12AM

Wasn't Ann & Barry translated into Aine agus Ronan?
I remember them heading down to the siopa to buy some subh.

And the rest were FAS ASAIK.

Ruu_Old · 14-04-2007 02:18PM

olaola wrote:

Wasn't Ann & Barry translated into Aine agus Ronan?
I remember them heading down to the siopa to buy some subh.

And the rest were FAS ASAIK.

That would be correct, them and their jam and toast!

Mrs. MacGyver · 16-04-2007 07:38PM

boreds wrote:

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.

Spraoi and siamsa...gosh the memories. Used to love their xmas annuals. I remember an irish book that had an orange cover and a sunrise i think it was pol agus niamh?

billy the squid · 19-04-2007 01:33AM

Mrs. MacGyver wrote:

Spraoi and siamsa...gosh the memories. Used to love their xmas annuals. I remember an irish book that had an orange cover and a sunrise i think it was pol agus niamh?

That would have been one of the Seal ag leabh books.

Gauge · 19-04-2007 09:48PM

There used to be questions involving Anne and Barry in Busy at Maths too. I remember wondering if it was the same Anne and Barry and then in one book it showed a picture of them. Seemed slightly out of date seeing as we had movied on to Tara and Ben then... them and their friend Kim, and Mr Mac the neighbourhood pet shop man who gaved some mice to Kim called Hide and Seek... she also had an ugly bird called Zippy.

Ohh... and their crazy granny who had a magic box, and one day they met a polar bear in the road who was too hot so they gave him ice creams and a hot air balloon to go back to his home... it's all coming back to me now!

Catari Jaguar · 22-04-2007 10:22PM

Stirling wrote:

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

The best one was Dioscó na mBó!

Awh, I remember the whole gang... Lusaí Luch, Diarmuid an Dragún, Áine Asal with her glasses, Pól Peist agus Lorcan Luch.

Then in my lil brothers class they change it to Rírá the fox and his pals.

Maybe it was just in Gaelscoils, but there were books called Fuinneoga I think. And they had cool pictures in them and good stories.

Catari Jaguar · 22-04-2007 10:23PM

440Hz wrote:

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

Wasn't he called Bran in Irish. And Sal was his mum. He had great pop up books! Oh, is the ball in the kennel? Lets lift it. Of course its there. It's always there....

Ruu_Old · 23-04-2007 12:02AM

Lil Kitten wrote:

The best one was Dioscó na mBó!

Awh, I remember the whole gang... Lusaí Luch, Diarmuid an Dragún, Áine Asal with her glasses, Pól Peist agus Lorcan Luch.

Then in my lil brothers class they change it to Rírá the fox and his pals.

Maybe it was just in Gaelscoils, but there were books called Fuinneoga I think. And they had cool pictures in them and good stories.

Rira was the fox, Mici the monkey, Lulu the pig and Nelli the elephant.

I have one where they end up going into a shop and knock over a jar of sweets and are chased out the door. No wonder kids are messed up these days!

murphaph · 23-04-2007 10:02AM

Was there a yellow book called buntus gaeilge?

Kojak · 23-04-2007 12:41PM

murphaph wrote:

Was there a yellow book called buntus gaeilge?

If I remember correctly, there was a yellow edition of Bún go Barr. I think we used in 5th or 6th class.

As regards the buntus gaeilge, I don't remember it

What was the Primary school Irish book called?

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