Recording No: 202
Theme: Education
Interviewee: Kathleen Rice
Date of Birth: 1939
Interview location: Tralee, Co. Kerry
Recorded by: Maurice O’Keeffe – Irish Life and Lore
Series Title: 1922-2022: A Century of Change (part 2)
Date Recorded: 24/06/2020
Recording Length: 1:14:09 mins
Keywords: Changes in education since 1950s; Dripsey NS, Co. Cork; H Dip UCC; Teacher training Mary Immaculate College, Limerick; Rochdale Grammar School, Manchester; Technical College, Tralee; Dep. Principal Mercy School, Balloonagh and Mercy Mounthawk, Tralee; Free education; Transition from religious to lay teachers; Boards of Management; Teaching Traveller children and orphans from Nazareth Home, Tralee; Pan Celtic Festival; Introducing Sport to Balloonagh School & The Arts to Mercy Mounthawk, Tralee; Tutor in UCC