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MANOR STREET |
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MANOR STREET |
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main entrance to the school is situated in Manor Street
The old convent was given to Focus Housing and the
sisters built a new smaller house with chapel. The secondary school is new (1977) but the original school is near the main entrance and houses the Primary school. A famous past pupil of which is Pat Kenny |
Other
famous past pupils of the Secondary School are Eleanor
McEvoy, singer and song-writer, Eileen Martin of
Riverdance fame, Liz Allen, journalist and Patricia
Bardon, well-known contralto. Manor Street merges into Aughrim St and Prussia St – the top of Prussia Street was where the old Cattle Market was situated. |
A Poet Remembers Manor Street Austin Clarke (1896-1974) One of Ireland's most distinguished poets, Austin Clarke was born on 9 May 1896 at 83 Manor Street, Dublin 7. His birthplace is recalled in the first lines of his poem ‘Mnemosyne lay in dust’. Our school premises are also mentioned in the poem. Past the house where he was got In darkness, terrace, provision shop Wing-hidden convent opposite |
He
was born of an easy-going and generous man who worked for
Dublin Corporation whose name was Augustine Clarke - the
superintendent of the Dublin Water Department. His mother was Ellen Browne who was both stern and strict, she had twelve children but only four survived - Austin and his three sisters. |
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