Email 14.04.2001 from Ama Carey - Barr USA
Stephanie, .... report that flight is booked so I'll see you there. 
- Also our mother,  Anne (Lindsay) Carey is a deceased past pupil and would have been a boarder  from 1932 - 1937,  and she was big into the Past Pupils Union (Pres. a lot)  from 1963 - 1971  or later, even.  Just to include her name with the prayers for deceased -  you mentioned this in your letter..... 
(PPU. donated to the school the new refectory in the new wing in 1966.....!!) 
---Also as well also,  Mary (my sister) would love to be there  from Spain, where she's been living since 1974, but she is/will be in hospital still for recovery from  huge hip surgery. -- prayers there too,  if we can,  please..... 
- And I would love to hear more news from you, - is Mother Elizabeth (Catherine Butler, RJM) from Scotland coming?  - Sheila Dolly?- Margaret Duffy/Ann Duffy? - Allie (Fitzgerald) Healy from Belmullet? - Iarla Hession from Tuam/living in England?  Ann O'Malley (Tuam)-?-  Mary Egan (Galway)-? (You don't have to answer  - I can wait!) 
Good luck with the marathon job you're doing  - Looking forward to the event! 
- Ama Carey- Barr.  class of 1971 !!.  (I've always wanted to say that.)  -  1966 - 1971.....o-o-old! 

Email - 02.04.2001 Dear Stephanie, I got your e-mail address from Anne Hanley, who assures me you have all the information about the 'Gortnor Abbey' reunion at the end of April.  Anne, Myself and Mary Lysaght would like to attend, so if you could help us out on this matter, we would be pleased.  
Best Wishes, Bairbre (O'Brien nee Gallagher)

Email - 28,03.2001, My name is James Rowan and I am sending this to inform you that I will be attending the renunion on the 28th of April. I informed the other five on the list as to what is happening but have heard nothing since, they could of course have got in touch with you already. I just want to say that I think this is a brilliant idea and hope that it is a great success.  Yours sincerly, James Rowan.

Email 08.03.2001 I don't recognise any names but that is probably because I am a very old girl of Gortnor Abbey!  I live in Maghull, Merseyside UK. Any one near me?  I am very much looking forward to the re-union on April 28th. I was a teacher in GAC 1959 - 1961/62.  I am still at the chalk 'n talk game! (even though officially retired!)but only part time. If you are living in UK, especially North West, give me an e-mail! Best wishes.   Jo Langan  

Email 17.03.2001 
Hello from Las Vegas!!! or as they say here... Los Wages.   My name is Trisha  Mulhaire and I'm originally from Crossmolina, Co. May'o. I went to the Convent of Jesus&Mary in the early eighties. I'm coming home for the reunion but I don't know where to to get an invite they sent one to my brother but  cause I moved years ago they probably forgot about me. Could  you please email me with  the booking forms for the Downhill hotel dinner as I need to book for five of  my friends that coming with me....... Thanks for all your help Trish Mulhaire.

18.03.2001- Email  
Many, many thanks for St Patrick's Day Greetings from the Reunion Gang!  Also  - Oh how I loved your Web Site!!  It is such a happy site.  My eldest son is working in Web Site Designe in Interact of Spiddle and he was as thrilled with it as me!!!  In fact - there we were - me and all my men folk - and they were as excited as I was!!!  So much so that I turned around to them and had to announce that it was ME - not THEM - that was the Past Pupil of Gorntor Abbey and it was ME  - not THEM that was joining this exciting reunion!!!!  The amount of work you are putting in on our behalf is amazing - and does not go unappreciated all the way down here in the Strange World of Cork!!! 
Love and Best Wishes Grainne OConnor Townsend! 

Letter from Nun's Island, Galway! 02.04.2001 
Dear Sister, I Teresa Mary Jackson was a boarder in the Convent of Jesus and Mary, Gortnor Abbey, Crossmolina, from Sept. 1927 - June 1930 - The nuns names I can remember are ..... Teresa Mary Jackson

Letter from Nun's Island, Galway! 02.04.2001 
Dear Sister, I Letitia Jackson was a boarder in the Convent of Jesus and Mary, Gortnor Abbey, Crossmolina from Sept. 1929 - June 1932....... (She can remember 17 nuns from that time!)  ..... Letitia Jackson

Email - 07.03.2001 To Stephanie O'Regan,Thank you for your invitation. Yes I do hope to be there for the mass and banquet D.V. Maureen Cahalin (Hegarty). Leaving Cert Gortnor Abbey 1970.

Email - 06.03.2001 Hi Stephanie, Thank you for your invitation. Just to let you know I will most definitely be coming, and wouldn't miss it for the world...disinfected indoor shoes and all. LOL. 
Patricia Mc Cormack managed to contact me with the invitation, so I have booked myself on the Saturday morning flight from London to Knock arriving in at 8.50am. After reading your website it sounds like there maybe standing room only for the green berets..can't wait! .......
Looking forward to seeing you there. Regards, Mary Brunette (nee Mulhaire)  Past Pupil LC ' 76 

Email - 04.03.2001 Dear Stephanie, Can I confirm that both Mary McAndrew and myself Marie McManamon, class of 1982, will be attending on 28 April. ........ Marie McM.

Email - 01.03.2001 Dear Stephanie I have received a mailshot re the gathering to take place in Gortnor
Abbey on 28th Apr next. I am a past pupil from Gortnor Abbey - year 67/68 and would love to attend. ... 
 ....... I  would also like any other information you may have, Yours sincerely, Mary Wyer

Email - 02.03.2001 Dear Stephanie, what a great idea to get everyone together! You are really taking a lot on, I am spreading the word around. Put my name on the list .......  I will be partaking in the whole day and night! Fidelis (my sister) will also be going.
Stephanie, ............ my son Kenneth who died at the age of 22 and he attended G.A. ........
Thanks for the hard work! ....... Regards Breeda Mulkearns (Judge) Mullinmore Rd, Crossmolina.

Poem from an excited Past Pupil - 

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