Tháinig na Lochlannaigh go hÉireann i 795 AD. Bhí longa fada iontahcha acu agus ba mhairnéalaigh maithe iad. Mharaigh siad go leor daoine agus ghoid siad óir ó na mainistreacha. Thóg siad port ag Dubh Linn nó Baile Átha Cliath. Bhí faitíos an domhain ar gach duine rompu.
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Beidh Co. Maigh Eo ag imirt in aghaidh Co. Dún na nGall i gcraobh ceannis na hÉireann ar an 23ú lá de Meán Fomhair. Tá súil againn go mbeidh an bua ag Maigh Eo. Ní raibh bua ag Maigh Eo ó 1951 agus síleann muid go bhfuil bua tuillte againn anois.
Mayo will be playing against Donegal in the All Ireland Football Final in Croke Park on the 23rd September. Mayo haven’t won the final since 1951 and so we are all hoping that Mayo will win.
There is an account here of how Mayo have fared in All Ireland finals since 1916 here.
We have been looking at the Mayo logo and it shows Croagh Patrick, Co. Mayo where St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland built his church. People often go on pilgrimmage to Croagh Patrick. We call it the ‘The Reek’. The logo also shows nine yew trees. Maigh Eo means the plain of the yew trees and each tree stands for a barony. We live in the Barony of Erris.
Tá muid ag cleachtadh ‘The Green and Red of Mayo’ ó na Saw Doctors. Tá an amhrán le fáíl anseo:
We are looking at some interesting facts about the GAA and football in Ireland here. You can download this booklet from the GAA here: http://www.crokepark.ie/getmedia/eefdc605-63f5-4cc4-a2d4-97df8ba8473a/Final-2.pdf
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For our Special Seniors’ Day, we collected wrote down some of our favourite memories of our favourite people. Here is a selection:
My memory
My memory is of my neighbour. She is friendly and lived close to us. Her name is Mary Doocey. I went with my mom to her house nearly everyday. I like her house because it’s nice. I would help her do stuff. I still go to her sometimes.
She went to Inver School when she was young. She is now 90 years old. She told me she has never left Ireland. We went for walks down the road everyday and she would tell me stories from when she was young. They had to sometimes walk to school in bare foot. The pupils missed loads of days then because their feet were too sore or it was too cold to walk. I would help my mom make dinner for her and I would make a cup of tea for her sometimes.
By Alison
My special memory
My special memory is of my great nanny called Margaret Lannon. My great nanny died on the 11th of February 2008. She was 102 years old when she died. My great nanny lived in Barnacullew, in Pullatomas when the landslid happened. She and her daughter were in the house when it happened. She was famous because she was the oldest person that rescue people had to rescue. They had to get a helicoptor to bring her down but she refused to go on it.
The most special thing I did with my nanny was for her 102nd birthday party when all my cousins came home from Scotland and Donegal. There was a very big crowd at the party. We ate loads of food and drank lots too. We stayed up around 1 or 2 o’clock. We had my uncles band playing at the party and we danced all the night. I am sure my nanny enjoyed the night.
My second favourite memory is when my nanny and I went for a walk up to the spring well to get some spring water for our tea and walked all the way back again to the house.
These are my two special memories of my nanny.
By Leanne
My special senior
My special senior is my nanny. My special thing she did was on my birthday when she gave me lots of sweets and clothes. I felt very happy when she gave me the sweets and clothes. I shared some of my sweets with my special senior. For her birthday I am going to give her a very special present!
By Ava.
My special senior
One of my favourite memories of spending time with a senior citizen is the day my Granddad and I went fishing together. I was spending the weekend at my grandparent’s house, so first thing in the morning, my Nan prepared a huge picnic for us. She made us a flask of tea, lots of sandwiches and fancy cakes. We went out into the lake and when we were a good bit out, Granddad showed me how to bait my hook. After a while, we still had no fish, so we decided we would have our picnic. We rowed as far as an island in the middle of the lake. We had a lovely lunch and then we lay in the sun. After an hour or two, we went back to the fishing, but we got nothing that time either. When we got ashore, Granddad went into a shop and bought a packet of fish fingers. The look on Nan’ face was priceless when we told her that was all we caught.
By Matthew
My Special Senior
My special senior is my granny because me and my granny used to have great fun together.
My special memory with my granny is walking with her dog along the beach. We used to drive back behind town to Cross Beach and when we would get to the beach, we would get the dog out of the car. We would put the dog on a leash. When we got down to the beach we let the dog go and he would go straight into the water I would throw the ball out into the water and he would go get it.
Then when we were going home the dog would just jump into the car and soak all the seats. That’s my favourite memory of my granny.
The End.
By Caolan
Special Memory
My special senior is my granny. My special memory is when we went down her field with my dog Pippy. One day during the Summer holidays my granny and I went down her field. We had a lot of fun. My dog , Pippy , knocked me over a few times. We laughed a lot. We walked to the bottom of the field.
There were a few banks at the end of the field so we crossed them. When we had crossed the banks we were at the seashore. We had a lot of fun at the seashore too. We had a long walk. Eventually it was time to go back to her house. I was sad but when we got back to her house we played some games. When we were finished playing we went inside for something nice to eat.
By Amy
Special Memory
My special memory was with my Nanny. It was when I stayed at her and Grandads
house for a few days. We did lots of different things.
First we went out to Nannys garden and watered the plants and after we planted some flowers. I enjoyed that and I think Nanny enjoyed it too.
The next day Nanny and I baked some boxty. Nanny is very good at cooking especially boxty. I had a great time baking it. When it was done Nanny, Grandad and I had some. It was lovely. I had the best time ever and I am so lucky to have a lovely Nanny and Grandad.
THE END
By Lisa
Our Special Seniors day and the raising of the Green flag
On Friday morning we had our Special Seniors day and the raising of the Green flag. Some of us asked a Special Senior to come in to the school for the day. Tommy, Eve’s Grandad brought in some old artefacts that they used long ago. He had old lanterns, an old pram, a record player, a churn and lots of others. We listened to a record. It was good fun. Bernie came in to make some boxty. It was nice. We wrote things about our Special Seniors and read it out to the whole school on the day. We played the tin whistles. Third, fourth, fifth and sixth played the base guitar, tin whistles and the melodicas. They played the Sally Gardens, Tell me ma and The star of the county down. It was great. Tom McHale and Eugene sang a song for us. We raised the Green Flag after lunch. The weather was very bad. We had a mass after that. We played bells and sang songs. We all had treats afterwards. It was a great day.
By Sophie and Rosaleen
Recently we looked at some artefacts that the children brought in from home. It was very interesting and it integrated perfectly with our study of materials and their properties!
Bhíomar ag foghlam faoi Leonardo da Vinci le déanaí.
In this project, which is part of our Learning Circles Project, we are developing an understanding of the level of engagement, and the types of engagement, that our schools and students have with technology.
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This is the submission from the students in Inver National School to their Learning Circles Project.
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What’s in the news?
The flu outbreak at Nazareth House nursing home in Buncrana Co. Donegal has been declared over by the health service.
Seven elderly residents at the Co. Donegal home died, as a result of the outbreak. I feel sad that so many elderly died from the same nursing home.
A new survey outlines the financial hardships householders are facing on a daily basis.
The study by the Irish League of Credit Unions shows the disposable income of thousands householders remains under severe pressure.
Almost half of the people that were served said they are left with €100 or less at the end of the month after paying essential bills. I feel that people are just working to pay bills and to feed themselves.
Mayo were playing Kerry on Sunday in our Gaelic Football League semi final. Mayo won the score was 1:17 to 2:15. It was an outstanding game. Mayo played class, Connor Mortimer scored 5 points in a row and they were the first points that Mayo got. I hope that Mayo win the cup. I think that Mayo played outstanding and that they deserve to win the League (by Eoin)
News
A us coastguard has called off a search for two Irish when a wave sweped them off the boat they were travelling on.
On Sunday afternoon Mayo played agginst Kerry the match was very intresting and it went into overtime. In the end mayo won and I was very pleased.
Two women diedin co. Tyron when there kitchen burst into flames. I feel very sorry for their family.
By Erin
Mayo beat Kerry in the alliance semi- final the score was 2-15 1-17 it went in to extra-time. Bryan Sheehan almost put in to a replay.
By Seamus
News
The space shuttle Discovery made its final voyage today.The United States retired its space shuttle last year after finishing construction of the $100 billion International Space Station to begin work on a new generation of spaceships that can carry astronauts to destinations beyond the stations 384km high orbit.
By Padraig C
As part of our Learning Circles project, We have been looking at our favourite popular and traditional foods.We hope to share these recipes and traditions with our Learning Circle partner schools around the world so that we can compare and contrast our cooking traditions. These are some of our favourites:
My special thing is my lego robot.
I play with it every day.
I can turn it into a helicopter.
It is very tall.
It has a sword.
I made it when I was six. I am seven now.
It has long hands with weapons on the end.
It is all different colours.
I keep it in a box.
Kian
My special thing is a rugby ball.
I got my rugby ball from my mom.
I have the rugby ball for long time.
I play with it every day.
It is a fun game to play.
I play outside with it.
My rugby ball is shaped like an egg.
I play with my brother Caolan. We have great fun.
Sometimes my friends come to my house and we play a game of rugby.
We have great fun.
I really like my rugby ball.
Liam
My special thing is a chain.
My mom gave it to me.
It is special to me because I had it for a long time.
I like it because it is special to me and it means a lot to me.
My chain has a heart shape on it.
I wouldn’t want it to break because it is special to me.
My mom gave it to me when I was a baby.
My mom got it in a shop.
When my mom came home she gave it to me.
I was very happy.
Rosaleen
My special thing is my teddy. My aunty got it for me when I was a baby. That’s why it is special to me because I got it a long time ago. It isn’t ripped or damaged. It is perfect and I wouldn’t like anything to happen to it. It is white and it has a pink flower in the middle of it and a bow on its head . It is very thin. It is middle sized and has two floppy ears.
Sophie
My special thing is a cowgirl. Her name is Jessie. My Nanny got her at toy master for my 1st birthday. I had her since I was 1. I like to play with her every day. I bring her to bed sometimes. She is very special to me.
Shauna
My special thing is a teddy. I love my teddy because my mum got it when I was two years old. At night my teddy is in the bed with me. She is big and fluffy. I called my teddy Lassie because it is a dog. I wouldn’t like anything to happen to it. It is a light brown colour. She has black eyes and a black nose.
Grace
Today everyone brought in sods of turf to school. We felt we had gone back in time by about a hundred years to the time when every student had to bring a sod of turf to school. But no- we hadn’t gone back in time! Instead we were bringing in contributions for the packages we were going to send to our partner schools in our Learning Circles project. We had to send items that were inexpensive but special to our area. We thought that by sending clods of turf to our partners in New Jersey, Washington, Katmandu, New Brunswick and Tartarstan that we could show the fuel that we all use to heat our homes all year long. We also sent them some Irish sweets and information about our schools. See https://sninbhear.edublogs.org/learning-circle-2012/ to find our more about our Learning Circles Project.