 Gardiner's Hill Entrance |  Ballyhooley Road Entrance |
Ballyhooley Road ‘Even if you are wrong, be consistently wrong’. I remember this mantra from my father. In hindsight, I can understand some logic behind it – if one is consistent, then only the reasoning needs to be corrected.
St. Patrick’s Schools obviously do not follow the consistency theory.
When I went to one of the St Patrick’s schools, I was told that when there were four things, then the object would be in the plural – so it would be ‘four schools’ and not ‘four school’.
They also explained the apostrophe as being used to replace the word ‘of’. To understand whether an apostrophe should be used, we were encouraged to rewrite the sentence using ‘of’ - just like ‘Campus of Schools of St Patrick’ or even ‘School of Boys of St. Patrick’.
It appears that the means of education has changed in the intervening years.
St. Patrick’s Schools obviously do not follow the consistency theory.
When I went to one of the St Patrick’s schools, I was told that when there were four things, then the object would be in the plural – so it would be ‘four schools’ and not ‘four school’.
They also explained the apostrophe as being used to replace the word ‘of’. To understand whether an apostrophe should be used, we were encouraged to rewrite the sentence using ‘of’ - just like ‘Campus of Schools of St Patrick’ or even ‘School of Boys of St. Patrick’.
It appears that the means of education has changed in the intervening years.
