While Primary school might be just a distant memory for most of us, we will never forget these books that we both loved and loathed, but had to put up with on a daily basis nonetheless. Reminiscing now we would give anything to be back in those simpler times when the most stressful thing was choosing which of your friends would be on your team for football at 'big break'.
Not everyone in primary school loved reading but with the amount of books we went through there is surely at least one book that people enjoyed. Here are some of the best Irish primary school books to help you relive your childhood.
Bun go Barr
To this day the mere mention of Bun go Barr and the thoughts of doing an Irish comprehension sends a shiver down most people's spine.
Tara and Ben
In fairness, everyone's favourite character was definitely Holly the dog.
Lusaí Luc
Lusaí Luc for a lot of primary school children was one of their first introductions to reading Irish and she didn't disappoint. And who could forget her pals Lorcán Luc, Pól Péist, agus Áine Asal?
Disco na mBó
Having to read passages from this on a daily basis and learn certain words from each line for our spelling test the next day was not a fun time. Discó na mBó was one of many including Peadar Pluaise and Tine Chnámh. At least they had the pictures to keep you somewhat entertained.
Busy at maths
The fear suffered by many a primary school child trying to do their maths homework will forever scar us so the hatred for this book is on another level. Of course if you were one of those mad yokes who got excited at the thought of maths homework this is probably still one of your prized possessions.
Fallon's spelling books
"Did you do your spellings last night?" "I only learnt the first five, sure the rest were easy" was a common morning conversation in schools across the country.
Fallon's tables book
Again with the maths love/hate relationship. It would put the fear of God in you, unless it was 5x tables - EASY!
Sonas/Siamsa/Spraoi/Súgradh annuals
These annuals were the highlight of a primary school child's year and they never disappointed. Opening your new, crisp copy of an annual to see what this year brought was like Christmas day had come early.
Alive-O
Religion time, (or Catechism as we used to call it) Wohoooooo. The shiny cover and lightweight pages really made Alive-O a class above the rest, although colouring on the shiny paged workbook was a total nightmare with the crayola crayons. Not cool.
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