| Computer hard drives and printers are a far cry from the nib pens and inkwells of Fairymount National School 100 years ago. |
| The discovery of two inkwells and a plastered table and bench strongly suggested that one of the rooms was a scriptorium, a room set apart for writing or copying manuscripts. |
| We even had to use inkwells which were filled on a regular basis by Sister Madeleine and her big bottle of midnight blue ink. |
| The ceramic was also used for inkwells, match holders, flowerpots, and tobacco pipes. |
| Girls with long plaits sometimes had the ends dunked in the inkwells of the desks behind! |
| I wrote a couple more about my mother thinking my room was like a bombsite and putting ink into the boys' inkwells before an arithmetic test. |
