On 11 Mai, 17:00, gruff <[email protected]> wrote:
> "... On May 10, 12:23 pm, frantheman <[email protected]>
> wrote: ..."
>
> > Thanks for your second installment! The "Boys Town" references got me
> > thinking about the strange way connections can be established; Fr.
> > Flanagan, the founder of the institution (played by Spencer Tracy in
> > the 1938 film) and I are both alumni of Summerhill College, Sligo, in
> > Ireland. Other past pupils include Albert Reynolds (PM of Ireland in
> > the 1990s) and the famous tenor, John McCormack.
>
> Are you sure about that? Flanagan's bio indicates he left Ireland at
> the age of 18.
Flanagan's attendance at Summerhill is documented, gruff, and, in
fact, the school gymnasium is called after him. I think this may be a
case of Bernard Shaw's two nations divided by a common language. In
Britain and Ireland, a college is a secondary (high) school. Colleges,
in the US sense, are the undergraduate sections of universities.
Francis
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