Rose Marie Doyle film premiere

On Thursday, June 11, Roscrea Age Friendly hosted the premiere of a film celebrating the life of Rose Marie Doyle.

The film, which is in the form of an interview, took us through the life of Rose Marie up to the summer of 2025 and Tipperary’s defeat of Cork in the all-Ireland hurling final. It is the first in a series of oral history documentaries focusing on the former Convent of the Sacred Heart in Roscrea. It was made by Meriem Mamutova, who currently lives in the convent, and Elizabeth McQuaid, who was taught by Miss Doyle in the 1970s.

Rose Marie, who was the youngest of six children, grew up in the North Circular Road in Dublin in the 1950s. She attended the Convent of the Sacred Heart Convent in Leeson Street prior to taking a degree in German and English in University College Dublin. She was awarded a scholarship to study at the University of Tübingen in Germany before spending a year teaching English in Munich.

Upon her return to Dublin, she was offered a position teaching German and English in the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Roscrea, where she remained until her retirement and the closure of the convent in 1999.

The event was attended by Rose Marie’s nephew, former students and colleagues, and her many friends and well-wishers from the town where she has lived for most of her life.