Old Primary school Irish books 1988-1995

Jaygon2009 · 05-04-2009 12:04am #1

Does anybody remember the old Irish books we used at primary school?

The readers I can remember were:
Ispíní agus Subh
Diarmuid an Dragúin
Tine Chnámh
Dioscó na mBó

The exercise books were:
Tig liom
Bog liom
Gluais liom
Rith liom
Siúil liom

Anyone remember these and what order they came in?

Jaygon2009 · 05-04-2009 1:54am

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.

sparkydee27 · 05-04-2009 2:03am

I remember bog liom it had a blue cover. Think i would have been in 4th or 5th class for that one. It definitely brings me back!

Crumble Froo · 05-04-2009 6:22am

i remember diarmuid an dragún, i think that was in second class?
first class irish reader was PÓl agus a chairde... i still remember the first lines were something like 'seo é lorcán luch, tá sé ag ithe.' next page... 'seo í lusaí luch, tá sí ag Ól' (my keyboard is refusing to let me put a fada on an 'o' unless it's capital).

the other irish readers arent too familiar though...

stÓr nua, i have vague recollections of.. i think that was it for all 3rd-6th class. stÓr nua 3,4,5... they all had horribly boring colours... dark greens, browns, blues... no pictures on the front either.

bonerjams03 · 05-04-2009 1:40pm

I used all them in my Gaelscoil....

We also had Siúl Siar, for History..
Gafa le Mata, Maths...

There was a Geography one as well, I think..

I think it Went:
Siúl Liom
Rith Liom
Tar Liom
Gluais Liom
Bog Liom

Then, I'm sure Ispíní agus Subh was third Class, Tine Cnámh - fourth class, and Dioscó na mBó was Fifth...

Hagar · 05-04-2009 1:58pm

I don't suppose anyone else remembers Tadhg Buí ?

Looking up a reference for this post I found out that Buí wasn't his surname. Yellow, who was ever called Yellow I ask you. He was blonde. Something the teachers never told us, another little obstacle put in the way of learning. How can non-native speaking kids ever understand colloquialisms like that? They couldn't have made learning Irish any more difficult if they tried.

End rant.

bonerjams03 · 05-04-2009 5:55pm

Hagar wrote: »

I don't suppose anyone else remembers Tadhg Buí ?

Looking up a reference for this post I found out that Buí wasn't his surname. Yellow, who was ever called Yellow I ask you. He was blonde. Something the teachers never told us, another little obstacle put in the way of learning. How can non-native speaking kids ever understand colloquialisms like that? They couldn't have made learning Irish any more difficult if they tried.

End rant.

Well, you could argue that they would struggle to learn Irish or colloquialisms in English. What do you think they would think the first time someone was described as "Gas".

In French Classes we're encouraged to learn slang and colluqialisms, and yes its difficult, but its not a barrier to learning.

Theres also the fact that most of the young Irish children would have assumed that he was called "Yellow" as well... They wouldn't have understood it either, particularly at a young age, but it probably only took the teachers one minute explanation as to why he was called "Buí" (with the possibility of pointing to a picture of a boy with yellow hair on the cover of the book( to set things straight...

rainbowtrout · 06-04-2009 9:49pm

IRcolm wrote: »

I used all them in my Gaelscoil....

We also had Siúl Siar, for History..
Gafa le Mata, Maths...

There was a Geography one as well, I think..

I think it Went:
Siúl Liom
Rith Liom
Tar Liom
Gluais Liom
Bog Liom

Then, I'm sure Ispíní agus Subh was third Class, Tine Cnámh - fourth class, and Dioscó na mBó was Fifth...

Good memory!!!

There's a list of them on the Gill and McMillan website

Siúil Liom
Rith Liom
Suas Liom
Gluais Liom
Bog Liom
Buail Liom
Tar Liom

Think I had most of those, my younger brother used ispini agus subh etc

bonerjams03 · 07-04-2009 2:36am

I remember also, that the first two, had a red and yellow cover respectively and were much bigger than the rest because you had to be able practice writing in the books... Whereas in the later ones it was just assigning excercises.

randomcorkgirl · 07-04-2009 3:45am

is breá liom Pol agus a chairde! Bhí siad ar fheabhas ar fad. Chaith mé cúpla trathnona ag leamh Pol sa seomra ranga!

pow wow · 07-04-2009 12:11pm

Anseo is Ansiúd ftw :P

Diosco na mBo had a pretty funky cover from recollection.

kraggy · 08-04-2009 12:15am

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

Ruu_Old · 08-04-2009 12:18am

I remember us watching Pol agus a chairde on the projector.

seanybiker · 08-04-2009 12:20am

kraggy wrote: »

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

I barely remember footprints.

I used to get me copy of spraoi every year.

Jaygon2009 · 08-04-2009 10:18am

I used to get Spraoi in First Class. Wasn't it a continuation of the 'Súgradh' series?

Does anybody remember which reader came after 'Dioscó na mBó' in Sixth class?

I wonder if publishers keep an archive?

Jaygon2009 · 08-04-2009 10:31am

Btw
Can't seem to find the 'liom' series listed anywhere on the Gill and Macmillan website.

Jaygon2009 · 09-04-2009 11:36pm

Anyone remember any of the old English readers?

First class was 'Away to Fairyland'
Sixth was 'A Breath of freedom'

and who could forget 'A treasury of English'?

daisydotty · 11-04-2009 11:20am

Ah the memories!remember the lilac/light purple "spelling and tables" and i remember one of those irishbooks spaslong.does anyone remember maths mastery.convinced i had a book called that!

Thumpette · 16-04-2009 4:53pm

I bet i still have a load of these at home in my wardrobe- my mum is always saying to me to come home and throw them away!

I think I remember busy at Maths alright

Cant remember the names of the irish books but the characters were Neili agus Lulu agus Micki agus Rira!

Then there was good old Ann and Barry for English!

It'd be great to see them all again!

fergusm76 · 22-04-2009 7:22pm

Jaygon2009 wrote: »

Anyone remember any of the old English readers?

First class was 'Away to Fairyland'
Sixth was 'A Breath of freedom'

and who could forget 'A treasury of English'?

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

netwhizkid · 23-04-2009 8:50pm

Ruari agus rira and Nelly the Elephant rira was a fox IIRC, these were between Junior Infants and 1st class I think, I also had Tine Chnamh and other published by Folens I think, I was exempted in 5th class due to my difficulties with it anyways.

Corruptedmorals · 24-04-2009 1:04am

I had Maths Mastery! The covers were pretty ugly I remember. Fottprints (which was never in print), Ann and Barry and the Pól agus a Chairde books. Dioscó na mbó was the last one, for 6th class.

Anybody remember the religion books? I had them starting about 1996... one was Come and See and another was called My Friends.

johnl · 24-04-2009 1:17am

Spáslong!

Tchaikovsky · 26-04-2009 9:27pm

'Diosco na mBo' ... I can't remember if we ever had that, but that teideal is fantastic; reminds me of Coppers

Ostrom · 26-04-2009 11:50pm

Ruu wrote: »

I remember us watching Pol agus a chairde on the projector.

Oh god the old projector! Manually feeding the flim from the silver cannister because they could never quite figure out how to feed it to the receiving spool....

Bríd agus Páid

Weidii · 03-05-2009 3:58pm

The only ones I can remeber are ispíní agus subh, Peadar Pluaise andLion at school..

itsallaboutme!! · 04-05-2009 10:32pm

sugradh,busy at maths,figure it out, ann and barry, mici agus rira,come and see,my friends,grammer na gaeilge. oh to be back in simpler times!!!!

tech77 · 17-05-2009 2:36pm

Hagar wrote: »

I don't suppose anyone else remembers Tadhg Buí ?

Looking up a reference for this post I found out that Buí wasn't his surname. Yellow, who was ever called Yellow I ask you. He was blonde. Something the teachers never told us, another little obstacle put in the way of learning. How can non-native speaking kids ever understand colloquialisms like that? They couldn't have made learning Irish any more difficult if they tried.

End rant.

Haha.
Love it.
Never liked Irish, probably for the reasons (quite well) outlined above.

Its So Easy · 18-05-2009 8:03pm

I found one of my old irish books three weeks ago.

lilmissprincess · 10-07-2009 5:14am

For English we had Ann and Barry, followed swiftly by Emma and Joe...

Irish...Pol agus a chairde!

Jaygon2009 · 11-07-2009 2:47pm

Would really love to get my hands on a copy of the old english reader 'Away to fairyland!'

OrangeDaisy · 12-07-2009 8:37pm

I loved 'Dioscó na mBó' and also 'tine cnamh'!

Fugly · 14-07-2009 4:01am

:DI loved those books so simple and straight forward. Absolutely LOVED the huggy bear range for junior infants. He wore he's scarf EVERYWHERE. :cool:
I'm a big enough to admit I was jealous of his sl*pp*r gf patsy panda. Who writes on a bath in lipstick?

!!

murrayp4 · 14-07-2009 4:19am

An cuimhin leat Ronán agus Aine???

transylman · 04-08-2009 5:51pm

Had a look through some of the old school books recently. Couldn't find any books but did find this rare example of an unspoiled coipleabhar.

rororoyourboat · 04-08-2009 9:45pm

Fugly wrote: »

:DI loved those books so simple and straight forward. Absolutely LOVED the huggy bear range for junior infants. He wore he's scarf EVERYWHERE. :cool:
I'm a big enough to admit I was jealous of his sl*pp*r gf patsy panda. Who writes on a bath in lipstick?!!

Haha! Jaysis, I was just talking about the lipstick in the bath incident with my bf this morning!

Those Rith Liom books were so depressing - all that grammar when you only were 7 or 8!

Purple Gorilla · 04-08-2009 9:53pm

I remember Sugradh, Streets Ahead Maths and Tried & Tested Maths

Elle Victorine · 05-08-2009 7:25pm

God all my books were in irish in primary school. All I really remember is

Stair
Foclóir....was a red book really and was what it says.
Gafa le Mata (me arse like!)

thelittleone · 05-08-2009 7:32pm

haha this brings me back! i remember tara and ben and their dog holly in english. was maths mastery the one with the pull out tests for every month or something?! there was away with words in english aswell, bun go barr in irish, the pied pipper for music (think they still use that). there was one called look around with a cool cover aswell i think

Purple Gorilla · 05-08-2009 7:42pm

omg I remember Tara and Ben!!!

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

netwhizkid · 05-08-2009 8:49pm

Purple Gorilla wrote: »

omg I remember Tara and Ben!!!

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

Same here I still have all my books, I kept most of my childhood links like that and have a whole corner of the attic stuffed with toys and books etc.

rororoyourboat · 05-08-2009 9:17pm

The other primary school in town had Tara and Ben, we had Huggy Bear. Cue weird divide between us all, even to this day...

netwhizkid · 05-08-2009 9:22pm

I found a few more since my last post! In my school all of the books were rented to the students for like £10/ term or whatever and as a result I do not have all the my old school books. Naturally with the rented books they were in a pretty atrocious condition so whenever I got a rented book that was too bad I would make my parents buy it for me instead and a result I have Tine Chnámh and the other Two were belong to my sister. I think Tine Chnámh was in 5th or 6th class as the material seems pretty advanced.

I was in Primary school from 1992 to 2000 and left aged 13, I was never good at Irish and was exempted from the subject that Autumn when I entered Secondary school.

walrusgumble · 13-08-2009 10:52pm

i know its a little off topic but after seeing the picture of the copies anyone remember the milk cartons (monahan milk / or champion milk not sure) with the pictures and bio profile of a number of sports stars eg christy ring?

dungeon · 15-08-2009 12:22pm

I remember Diosco na mBo and the cows all had a disco in the cowshed. How unreal was that?

dungeon · 15-08-2009 12:23pm

Having said that, it was an attempt at something light hearted and it was a change from, 'An Timpiste'.

dungeon · 15-08-2009 12:30pm

On the subject of an Timpiste. I remember our teacher telling us that in the Irish comhra series that was on the projector, Mammy was only shown driving a car once in the 8 years. That was the time she crashed it! The teacher was great though and used it to make a point about how outdated the series had become. That's probably why he didn't use it much and did more interesting stuff with us instead.

swapple · 18-08-2009 3:02am

sugarman wrote: »

They sound familiar alright.. cant actually recall them properly.. i remember a book called "Bun go barr" though. Wheather i used it or i remember from my sister i could'nt tell ya.

bun go barr! i struggled so much with that book in 5th/6th class, but thats because i was shyte at irish :rolleyes:

kizzabel · 23-08-2009 10:07pm

this Pol you talk of...
is he the same Pol of Pol Peiste fame??
a worm yeah?
i remember tine chnamh but what was it about?

captain caveman · 24-08-2009 2:45pm

rainbowtrout wrote: »

Good memory!!!

There's a list of them on the Gill and McMillan website

Siúil Liom
Rith Liom
Suas Liom
Gluais Liom
Bog Liom
Buail Liom
Tar Liom

Think I had most of those, my younger brother used ispini agus subh etc

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

toner40 · 16-12-2009 1:22pm

Jaygon2009 wrote: »

Does anybody remember the old Irish books we used at primary school?

The readers I can remember were:
Ispíní agus Subh
Diarmuid an Dragúin
Tine Chnámh
Dioscó na mBó

The exercise books were:
Tig liom
Bog liom
Gluais liom
Rith liom
Siúil liom

Anyone remember these and what order they came in?

Hi If you have any of those books and you want them to have a useful life, the gaelscoil my kids go to still use them and would love to get some more copies as alot of the books are starting to fall apart.

Old Primary school Irish books 1988-1995

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