Rathdown School Alumni

Association of past pupils (girls and boys) of Rathdown School, The Hall School, Hillcourt, Park House School, Glengara Park. Archive of 150 years of education.

[Rathdown School Alumni @RathdownAlumni]

Great commitment on a misty morning!

[Rathdown School Sports @RathdownSports]

Morning Hockey -Getting it done
Well done Everyone ! @RathdownSchool @RathdownAlumni

[Rathdown School Alumni @RathdownAlumni]

Beautiful work on this @DublinCanvas project by Lynn Kennedy, depicting a 1960s schoolgirl hockey match, love it #womeninsport. Blackrock, Dublin.

[Rathdown School Alumni @RathdownAlumni]

This is brilliant news, congratulations to these talented and hardworking hockey players!

[Rathdown School Sports @RathdownSports]

Hugh Congratulations to the following Rathdown girls who have been selected for the Leinster U18 & 16 August training panels. Caoimhe Seymour , Aoibhinn Murdoch, Orla Young Hughes & Chloe Moore @RathdownSchool @RathdownAlumni @Noreen_Kinder

[Rathdown School Alumni @RathdownAlumni]

Hillcourt tunic with hockey and lacrosse badges 1957, 1958, and 1959, and hockey and lacrosse school colours. #exploreyourarchive #schoolhistory #dresshistory

[Rathdown School Alumni @RathdownAlumni]

Glengara Park blazer, very worn away around the reveres, tie, and tunic, 1960s, shown with a modern shirt. #exploreyourarchive #schoolhistory #dresshistory

[Rathdown School Alumni @RathdownAlumni]

Dressing models for a display for the new academic year (we work slooowly), here's The Hall School, Monkstown - summer dress in green gingham and a boiling hot wool blazer, 1960s. #exploreyourarchive #schoolhistory #dresshistory

[Rathdown School Alumni @RathdownAlumni]

Dandelion clock at school today.

[Rathdown School Alumni @RathdownAlumni]

A few days left to enter this lovely writing competition, after Ulysses - write a story taking place within a single day. Sidebar: the Misses Palmer, who ran Hillcourt, were sisters of Geoffrey Molyneux Palmer, who set Joyce's poems to music. Writing competition details 👇

[Museum of Childhood Irl,Músaem Óige na hÉireann @museumofci]

Amazing entries in from #Dublin #Wicklow #Cork, #Tipperary...❤️to hear too from #Donegal #Galway #Kerry #Fermanagh #Limerick #Offaly until 24th May! ... https://t.co/I39scnR6br @drmattfogarty @MiraDobu @Education_Ire @tyhub_ie @tydotie @PdstTy @RathdownAlumni @UnicefIRLyouth

[Rathdown School Alumni @RathdownAlumni]

On the @explorearchives May theme of #Transport here's Geraldine Lefroy, about to drive herself home from The Hall at the end of the summer term, 1961. We love the tonal matching of school jumper and car paint!

[Rathdown School Alumni @RathdownAlumni]

'Wait' often worse than 'Enter' ... traffic light system outside the headmistress's office. No longer in use but still in situ ... just for the terror factor #SomethingScary #Archive30

[Rathdown School Alumni @RathdownAlumni]

We have some lovely new #musichistory archive accquisitions including Singing Games, supplied by Pigott of Grafton Street in Dublin, approaching 200 years in business. Love the illustration and typography, think it dates from 1929 @mcpstweets @RathdownMusic

[Rathdown School Alumni @RathdownAlumni]

This is a hashtag we could serve forever #ArchiveFashion Edna and Bunty in their tennis whites, 1920. Thick black stockings, long sleeves, belts. In rain you'd be soaked, in sunshine you'd be boiled. Bet they enjoyed their game though. #hillcourt #Archive30 spot the photographer.

[Rathdown School Alumni @RathdownAlumni]

Well, we love a jodhpur round here. Some wonderful sixties styles, and the #vwvan is just a style icon. #hallschoolmonkstown #ArchiveFashion #Archive30

[Rathdown School Alumni @RathdownAlumni]

Every archive is full of undated, unnamed snaps, here's one of ours for #ArchiveMystery #Archive30. If the painted screen and potted plant are clues, we can't decipher them. Could her waist shape / #corsethistory date this woman (a teacher?). Is that a horseshoe on her collar?

[Rathdown School Alumni @RathdownAlumni]

Reading Room of the Jagger Library, University of Cape Town, almost entirely destroyed by yesterday's fire. Not yet possible to determine the extent of the loss of archives, manuscripts, special collections. #archives #capetownfire

[Incunabula @incunabula]

This was the magnificent reading room of the University of Cape Town's historic Jagger Library, entirely gutted and destroyed by the fire yesterday. #CapeTownFires

[Rathdown School Alumni @RathdownAlumni]

@Irish_Cookbooks We have some recipes in our archive, and one of them is for Jenny Lind Cake! It's from one of a pair of notebooks kept by a school principal. Also recommending: "Butter + serve hot." #foodhistory

[Rathdown School Alumni @RathdownAlumni]

Company embossing seal for Hillcourt School Trust from 1964, ordered by Matheson Ormsby Prentice @matheson_law & delivered to their old offices at 20 Upper Merrion Street, where you’ll now find @pearlbrasserie. Only unusualish, but still - #UnusualItems #Archive30

[ARA Section for Archives & Museums @ARAArchMus]

#ExploreYourArchive ✨

Do you have an #UnusualItem in your care?
Something really strange or weird you could share?
Maybe you don’t know know what it is,
An object or record which is amiss?
Let’s see what you’ve got for Day 6,
Add your special item to the mix!

#Archive30

[Rathdown School Alumni @RathdownAlumni]

How gorgeous!

[Royal Ballet and Opera @rbo_org]

☘️ Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Today we're celebrating the Emerald Isle with this clip of Emeralds from Balanchine's ballet Jewels, performed here by First Soloist of @TheRoyalBallet Beatriz Stix-Brunell

[Rathdown School Alumni @RathdownAlumni]

To mark #stpatricksday and #womenshistorymonth https://t.co/4lRiMTPGPv has published a piece highlighting some of the sports photographs in the #RathdownArchive - great range of sports showcased - enjoy, and Happy St Patrick’s Day! https://t.co/oz5Ts8uUsG