Many thanks to Una Kavanagh (Blair) who sent on this image which will bring back many Kindergarten memories.
The story goes that Sister Hildegarde spotted the “Weather House” on the Gypsum Lorry at the St. Patrick’s Day Parade, sometime in the very late ’50s or very early ’60s and asked Úna’s father if the school could have it [...]

Interview with Rosaleen Linehan (class of ’54) by Geraldine Lawless – reproduced from the 1995 Year book.

GER:

When did you go to St. Stephens Green?

ROS:
I went when I was three. It must have been about 1940 and I left in 1954, about 14 years.

GER:

So you went to the Junior School?

ROS:
Yes

GER:

What was your first impression of [...]

School life was quite different in those days. During the twenties my grandmother and two of her sisters attended The Green. My mother, aunt and uncle followed in their footsteps. I could nearly say that going to Loreto, Stephen’s Green has been a tradition in our family.
Since that time, changes have occurred. The main difference [...]

September 1943 – the second world war at its height in Europe – two weeks after my ninth birthday, I set off with my eight year old sister for The Green. The decision that we should go to boarding school was probably influenced by the fact that my mother was a non-Catholic, and she and my father wanted to ensure that we would get a sound Catholic education. The choice of school was inevitable as my only aunt went to The Green as a boarder in 1914.

In September 1938 at the age of five years and nine months, I started school in the ‘Babies’ class in The Green. My mother Una Byrne (Begg) had been a pupil in the secondary school in the 1920s.

In June of that year, she brought me to meet Mother Clare, who had taught her piano and violin. We also met Mother Rita, who was in charge of the Junior School. it was then known as the Kindergarten and Preparatory College. I was shown around the classrooms. We came down the lane with all the presses for the coats and shoes belonging to the ‘Big Girls’. The junior school cloakroom was on the right-hand side opposite the steps leading into the concert hall.