Denise Deegan: Returning to my old school was a real education

As the school year ends, author Denise Deegan drops in on the TY girls at St Angela’s in Cork to hear their plans for the future

THE invitation came through Facebook. It was a reader of my teenage novels inviting me back to my old school, St Angela’s College, Cork to attend a book launch. Every single student in Transition Year (TY) had produced a book. As someone who was 30 before I produced my first, I was on my way to Cork.

When I, at 16, gazed out the windows of St Angela’s, I dreamt of being a nurse.