Inter Cert or Junior Cert

[TaraMock]

Just wondering (roughly!) the age profile of MN users on Craicnet... so, did you do the Inter Cert or Junior Cert? Or maybe neither... 🤔

I'll start, I did the Inter Cert - I think it was in 1988.

Some of you are making me feel very old! Inter Cert in 1979 and Leaving Cert in 1981. And I definitely remember Peig. And not with fondness!

I don't remember it Sgt so I had to look up what a 175 is - a motorbike!

I did my Inter Cert 1988 and Leaving cert 1991 as I did transition year, my school was probably one of the few where TY was compulsory in the 80s. I'm a big believer in TY, it really helped me gain confidence as a teenager - also, otherwise I would have been 16 doing my Leaving, which seems very young.

I remember a poem 'mid term break' about a kid whose sibling died and had to come home from boarding school. It was so sad. That was JC 1992. I can't remember any Irish.

I remember in history the choice subjects were such that we could exclude Irish history, I did French revolution instead which mostly consisted of us learning the national anthem in French cos our teacher was a mad nun. As a result I have found myself many many times feeling ignorant and clueless about our own history. I really think your national history especially a story of independence should be compulsory. The troubles in NI were so directly related and still prominent in the 90s and I hadn't a clue what it was all about.

I remember a poem 'mid term break' about a kid whose sibling died and had to come home from boarding school. It was so sad.

Seamus Heaney

Sooooo 1980s!

@TheOliveGoose snap

No Peig here either, Aililiú Bop Siúáidí and An Triail for Leaving Cert which my memory was implicitly about abortion but I wonder was that just class discussion at the time.