Irish Alphabet by Rene Mullins

The results are in.

Last week, with an A3 print by Rene Mullins of the Irish Alphabet As Gaeilge from Jam Art Prints on offer, we asked you to share a story from your school days you’ve never shared before.

Thank you for all your brilliant stories.

Mark at Jam Art eventually chose reader Paul‘s entry:

‘Our year heads, head boy/girl, prefects etc in our secondary school all had their own badges that would be handed back at the end of the year and given to the next set of students. These badges were fairly nice, good quality, ‘prefect’ cut out neatly, ‘head boy’ engraved, may have been made by a local metalworker in the town. They were a mark of responsibility as well as some of these badges were 10+ years old.

Some of them went missing. Missing from locker rooms, missing from on the backs of chairs, missing from bus rides. A quiet fuss was made about this, extra vigilance needed, lists of students who had badges made and referred to at meetings so any extra badges floating around could be rooted out and returned. Nothing came of it. I only heard about this second hand through a friend who was a prefect.

‘Never gave it a second thought until I was in collecting my Leaving Cert results a few years later, turned a corner in the school to open them in private and promptly tripped over a rug (one of these very long rugs, brown/black pattern on top, thick rubber water proof edges), pushing the edge of the rug under the raised edge of a row of lockers (uneven floor) and pushing the missing badges out from the other end of the lockers with a merry jingling as they rolled out. I froze, listened in case anyone else was nearby and then quickly kicked the badges back under the lockers. Two had rolled a bit further (a prefect badge and a year head badge) so I went for them but heard the staff room door opening around the corner. Lifted them from the ground, in the pocket and off I went.

‘Didn’t get great results but those two badges are in a box upstairs at home now. The school was refurbished the following year so they definitely found those badges.’

Congrats Paul and thanks all.

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Meanwhile….

Last Friday, with a GAA county colour friendly match box signed print by Larry Byrne from Jam Art to giveaway, we asked for your least favourite county and why.

Clampers Outside ‘shook’ the competition with this short but sparky entry:

‘Dublin. I’ve a love-hate relationship with Dublin. So much to love, and yet all my hate is channelled… Me bike! Me bikes! All those bleedin’ bikes was robbed on me! Bastids!’

Well done Clampers and thanks all.

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2 thoughts on “Your Letters

  1. Clampers Outside !

    Oh man, this is deadly :)

    I’ve a friend coming home from the US this Christmas… BIG GAA fan he is, and I’ll pick his home county and gift it to him. I’m sure he’ll love it :)

    Thank you Jam Art, Larry Byrne and Broadsheet, sending love and hugs… feel the squeeze! :)

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