Welcome to all our fellow Green Past Pupils at home and across five continents. The Green Past Pupils Association welcomes all Loreto on the Green graduates as members. Our aim is to foster and develop links between Past Pupils of Loreto on the Green and to support the Loreto Union in its causes. We run a variety of activities each …
Claire Lambe Olympics Rio 2016
We are so proud of our 2008 Graduate Claire Lambe (pictured here with Martha McGlade 5B) who was honoured tonight in UCD for her heroic performance in the Lightweight Rowing Doubles in Rio 2016 reaching the semi finals. As well as being an inspiring Olympian, Claire has also graduated from UCD as an Ad Astra scholar in mechanical engineering and …
Úna Treads the Boards at The Mill
If you fancy a little Summer theatre, you might check out the critically acclaimed Love Letters, back for a limited run to The Mill Theatre, Dundrum, and starring Green Past Pupil, Úna Crawford O’ Brien. A.R. Gurney’s play tells the story of Andrew Makepeace Ladd and Melissa Gardner, whose friendship and ill-fated romance takes them from 2nd. Grade, through adolescence, maturity and …
Clare Takes to the Boards in Irish Premiere
Clare Dunne (Class of 2009) takes to the boards this month in the Irish Premiere of the stage production of , an adaptation of the award-winning children’s book of the same name by Jamila Gavin. This production marks the 50th anniversary of the Betty Ann Norton Theatre and Agency School. Clare started in Kindergarten in The Green and left school …
Jane Mitchell Wins Essex Annual Book Award
Jane Mitchell’s novel, Chalkline, has just been announced the winner of this year’s Essex County Book Award from a shortlist of six novels.Run by Essex County Council’s Library service, the county-wide scheme is aimed at encouraging secondary school pupils to enjoy reading and foster a passion for fiction. The short-listed books were chosen by Essex School Library Service Librarians from a …
Tara Fay wins prestigious Special Event Gala award
Tara Fay is a Past Pupil of The Green. She runs the event management company, Xena Productions Two Irish event companies received the prestigious Special Event Gala Awards. History was created on the 15th January at the Special Events show in New Orleans, when Ireland won an unprecedented two awards at the prestigious Gala Awards Ceremony. Euro Events from Dun Laoghaire, …
Anne-Marie O’Farrell (Harpist)
Anne-Marie O’Farrell was a pupil in The Green from 1979 to 1984. She is the leading exponent of the Irish harp as a recital instrument. Her development and expansion of its repertoire have led to performances and recordings for TV and radio throughout Europe, the USA, Scandinavia, Japan, Russia and Africa. A prolific recording artist, she has just released her …
Claudia Carroll (Class of ’84): Writer
Claudia was born in Dublin, where she still lives and where she’s worked extensively both as a theatre and television actress. For fourteen years, she played the part of Nicola Prendergast in the long-running Dublin soap opera, Fair City; a character she describes as ‘the horrible old cow that everyone loves to hate.’ She wrote her first novel, HE LOVES …
Jane Mitchell (Class of ’83), Writer & Illustrator
Jane Mitchell attended Loreto College, St Stephen’s Green, all the way up from fourth class until her Leaving Certificate in 1983. English and Art were Jane’s favourite subjects throughout her schooling, so it is hardly any great surprise that she went on to write and illustrate books for children and young people. While studying Education in Trinity and Froebel College …