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Florence (Florrie) Armstrong (26 November 1928 - 14 December 2010) was a teacher and pioneer of multi-denominational education in Ireland.

Birth and education
Florence Armstrong was born on 26 November 1928 in the townland of Drumalure, Co Cavan to Thomas Armstrong and his wife Elizabeth (née Dunne), one of four children. The family lived in nearby Belturbet, very close to the Irish border, where her father worked as a clerk in the railway office. Her parents were both from farming backgrounds. Partition had occurred just six years before her birth, and the Armstrongs lived in a Protestant community, the reverse of the norm throughout most of the Republic of Ireland.

Florence, known as Florrie, went to Drumaloor national school. She was encouraged by her teacher Mrs Kemp to go on to attend Coláiste Mobhí in Dublin, an Irish language second-level school for protestants. In 1947 she was awarded a sizarship at Trinity College Dublin, graduating with a BA in languages in 1951. She completed a Higher Diploma in Education at Trinity College Dublin in 1954.

Career
Follow the completion of her BA, and her mother's sudden death, Armstrong took up a post as principal of a single teacher national school in Kildallan, Co Cavan, to be near her father.