Visit from Mr. Sheehan

Mr.Sheehan came to our school today. He was talking about history. It was very interesting. He told us all the names of places and how they got them. He told us that people say they have been every where but not Mullinahone. Then he told us a poem about 'The Two Travellers' written by CJ Boland and one of them was a show off.
"And The man that was never in Mullinahone
Shouldn't say he had travelled at all."

He told us about CJ Kickham. CJ made up the Slievenamon song.He told us about Michaelangelo and then he told us about how Leonardo da Vinci got his name. He came from the village of Vinci.

Mr. Sheehan taught in our school and he also was a pupil here when he was young. The Irish name for Kilvemnon back then was called Cill Maighidne adn it means the Church of the Virgin Mary. Now people believe that it means the Church of St. Mheamnain. He told us how Cloneen got its name from 'Little Meadow.'
Mr. Sheehan is a really nice man and I can't wait to see him again next week for our next lesson on Mullinahone's history.
by Sparky

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Visit from John Crowe

Yesterday the fifth of February John Crowe came to our school and showed us all of his guitars and his piano and he played a few tunes. He said that deaf people can 'hear' the guitars because they can feel the vibration and then know the notes in a tune . He also said that long string guitars have a lower pitch and guitars with shorter strings make lots of high pitched noise .
We learned lots from him about guitars we also learned lots about pianos. John gave a few of us a go on his guitars and at the end of the day we sang a song; Galway Girl' and recorded it and we made it sound like Alvin and the Chimpmunks and it was funny and everybody laughed and we all had a good time and I would like to say thanks to John Crowe! Thanks John.



John used Audacity to record the MP3 and we also use this for our podacasts. So today we made our own MP3s of the song 'as Gaeilge'.

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The Feast Of Saint Blaise.

On Tuesday the 3rd of Feburary it was the feast of St Blaise. There were a few masses on that day and a lot of us went to them because we had the day off school because of the heavy snowfall over night. I went to the mass at 8 O'clock. At the start of mass Fr McGrath blessed our throats. It is said that there was once a boy that was choking and Saint Blaise said a few prayers over him and it saved his life. Fr John McGrath came into school today. He came at break-time and we said a few prayers and then he blessed our throats. I helped blessing people's throats. It was fun.
By B612

Visit from Mrs Jane McHugh

Today we had a visit from Mrs McHugh. She came in to talk to us and ask us questions about our plane project and Hong Kong. When she came in we greeted her in Irish and she asked us about what we did and we told her about lego, papier mache models and a lot more stuff.
We then had a showing of our Little Prince film. We hope Mrs McHugh visits us again soon.