“On the staff for fewer years than Peter Hall but recalled vividly by former students was Paddy Wright. Paddy had come to St Kevin’s after teaching at Trinity Grammar School. He immediately struck his colleagues as a dedicated teacher and managed to communicate his enthusiasm to students through, or perhaps in spite of, his often eccentric techniques. Students faced the return of essays from Paddy with some trepidation. His method of communicating displeasure at a piece of work was to draw a tombstone at the top of the essay. A returned essay with the dreaded tombstone symbol meant that the author was headed for punishment through the strap.
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