About Us


The original St. Mary’s Primary School was opened in 1855 by the Irish Christian Brothers. In 1874, the school was extended with new classrooms added. The school at St. Mary’s Place was renowned for the high standard and quality of its education. In the 1930s all subjects were taught through Irish and under the direction of Vincent O’Brien, the St. Mary’s School Choir became known as one of the best in the city and, for a while, only boys from St. Mary’s were accepted into the newly-formed Pro-Cathedral Palestrina Choir.

In 1980, the old St. Mary’s School was sold and a new school was built on the present site. Two other schools, St. Joseph’s Dorset Street and St. Michan’s Halston Street were amalgamated with St. Mary’s to become Scoil Plas Mhuire for boys.

In 1990, a girls’ school, Scoil Mhuire ‘s Iosaf, transferred from Kings Inn Street to share the building with the boys’ school. The girls’ school originated in Mountjoy Street as an orphanage run by the Irish Sisters of Charity, dating back to 1866. In the 1930s, it developed into the Josephian Primary School before amalgamating with Kings Inn National School in 1985.

 

Until 2013, Scoil Plas Mhuire for Boys and Scoil Mhuire ‘s Iosaf for Girls shared the school building before amalgamating to become St. Mary’s Primary School once more in September 2013.

3 thoughts on “About Us

  1. Liam Donnelly -

    Two famous Irish People went to Plas Mhuire. One was Arthur Griffith and the other was Sean T O Ceallaigh, Second President of Ireland

  2. Jakub Rozman -

    Good afternoon,

    my name is Jakub Rozman and I am contacting you on behalf of the European Development Agency (EUDA) located in Prague, Czech Republic. http://euda.eu/

    At the moment we cooperate with kindergarten and primary school teachers from Prague to find appropriate partner schools for 4-day shadowing visits abroad.

    All of the funding for our teachers is provided by national funding programs a puts no demands on the host school.
    The activity focuses on sharing the experience of working with children with different mother tongue which grows to be a substantive issue in our city.

    With this being said, I would like to kindly ask you if you would be willing to cooperate with us in and be interested in welcoming our teachers in your school?
    All of the organizational tasks are, of course, dealt with by our team.

    We have currently particular teachers interested in gaining new experience through cooperation with schools in Ireland and it could also be a great opportunity to start mutually beneficial cooperation based on shared experience.
    Our teachers would be very delighted to welcome you to Prague in return for the favor.

    Thank you very much for your answer.

    Kind regards,

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