Oideas Gael - Irish language college in the Donegal Gaeltacht with additional courses on music, dance, hill-walking and fiddle-playing.
Tirconnel Students - Information for people who were educated in Donegal to in touch.
The Donegal Gaeltacht Cultural Centre - Offers Irish language courses. Accommodation is available in traditional cottages or at bed and breakfast with local Gaeltacht families.
Gifted Childrens Organisation - Provides support and special classes for gifted children in Donegal and surrounding counties.
Language and Adventure - Modern language programmes for primary and secondary levels featuring language courses in the morning and adventure in the afternoon.
Dromore N.S. - Details of primary school, its projects and resources, past pupils and several sections on use of technology. Includes staff details, a map and a virtual tour.
Donegal Vec - Information about the Vocational Education Committee.
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-- P. J. O'Rourke Man and wife make one fool. Education
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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-- Mark Twain ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
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-- George Bernard Shaw Education
Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
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-- Henry Miller Education
The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
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It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
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-- Deborah Tan The important thing is not to stop questioning.
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-- Thomas Dewar Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Education
Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
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-- Seen on a t-shirt Education Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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-- Sydney Smith Education There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
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Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
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-- John Adams Education The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Education
But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
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-- General Douglas MacArthur Education The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Education
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
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- Frank Lloyd Wright Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Education
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
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-- Gloria Steinem If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Education
