Month: March 2015

25th March 2015

From the first tentative arrival of the shades of Fr Peter Kenney and James McLorinan to the last exultant beat of the impish David Dudeney’s drum the National Concert Hall resounded to the music, song and words that helped give a flavour of the cultural legacy bequeathed by the pupils, alumni and staff of Ireland’s…read article

23rd March 2015

My Goodness; it’s Guinness! As part of our Bicentenary celebrations, we were delighted that the renowned Guinness Choir agreed to perform at our Mass last Sunday, March 22nd. They were accompanied on the organ by David Leigh and the performance was be conducted by their regular conductor David Milne. The Choir, which was established in Dublin in 1951,…read article

23rd March 2015

Incident at Vichy by Arthur Miller was Tom Carroll’s excellent choice for this year’s revived Festival of Drama. With seventeen parts, most of them substantial, it offered the perfect vehicle for his committed and talented troupe of actors. It is also a profoundly disturbing play. Set in Vichy France in 1942 during the Nazi occupation,…read article

22nd March 2015

Seachtain na Gaeilge i gColáiste Choill Chluana Gabhann. Last Monday ( 24th March ) we commenced celebrating Seachtain na Gaeilge in Coláiste Choill Chluana Gabhann (the college of the wood of the vale of the blacksmith for those who may have wondered what Clongowes actually meant). We would like to thank all teachersfor their co operation…read article

18th March 2015

European Confederation of Jesuit Alumni/ae The European Confederation of Jesuit Alumni/ae (ECJA) brings together the Committees of Past Pupils’ Unions from Jesuit schools throughout Europe. The Irish Federation (IFJA) is the umbrella group for the five Irish secondary schools with Fr Michael Sheil (Rector of Clongowes) as current President and Gerard Long (Old Belvedere) as…read article

16th March 2015

Portora return to Clongowes Once again Clongowes hosted our friends and colleagues from the Royal School, Portora, Enniskillen for an overnight return visit to Kildare. It’s always like welcoming friends over to stay, and that’s been the nature of the relationship between both schools since 1979 who have stood side by side in good times…read article

13th March 2015

New GAP Students in Clongowes Patrick Sunderland, Tim McGrath, Edward Jude, Ben Quinn and Hamish Fuller (left to right above) arrived from the Australian heat to the inviting wind and rain of Ireland just after Christmas and have been quietly making their presence felt ever since. Mr Steven Gray (who has taken over the role…read article

11th March 2015

We held our first Inter-House Literary Quiz yesterday evening, Mon 11th of March. The ten Houses were each represented by a team of six, one student from each year.   Questions were based primarily on the World Book Day Writes of Passage, http://worldbookday.com/writes-of-passage/, fifty of the most popular teen and young adult reads as voted…read article

11th March 2015

All Ireland Schools’ and Universities’ Cross Country Championships If you build it, they will come! As the course for the All Ireland Schools’ and Universities’ Cross Country Championships started to take shape (under the watchful eye of Mr Heslin – Ed), the excitement around Clongowes began to build. The course designed to test the finest…read article

10th March 2015

On Wed 4th March the James Joyce Library was honoured to welcome two most distinguished guests, his Excellency President Michael D. Higgins and his wife Sabina, who were visiting the school in celebration of the school’s bicentenary. Greeted at the door by Elements student Rory O’Meara in the guise of James McLorinan, the first student…read article