rflong | Grubby ol' archives

What a lovely day of grubby old archives. It's the only way to describe them! My hands were filthy, my clothes covered in crumbling leather and the dust of 150 years. Great fun!

Seriously though, I actually feel as if I got somewhere today and have a (very small, I admit) box all sorted, packed away and properly described.

Very gratifying.

I was mainly going through the archives of Terenure College, getting things in order for a researcher who will be writing a history of the school. I think the thing I like best are the old school photos where you look at the faces in the front row especially and see that they could be any boy in a school photo today. The rolls are fun too. There are comments from the teachers "Lazy and disobedient", "Found climbing the orchard wall" or "An excellent student!"

Maybe things haven't changed all that much when it comes to little boys...

R