Year: 2016

5th December 2016

The tradition of science and mathematics is alive and well in Clongowes Wood and on Thursday, 17th November, the college received another accolade by coming first and second in the Regional ISTA Senior Science Quiz. This feat entitled them to attend the National Finals held in Trinity College on Saturday, the 26th November. Conor Galvin…read article

1st December 2016

One of the highlights of the festive calendar in Clongowes is the Christmas Concert, which this year takes place on Sunday 11th December from 15.00 to 17.00 (both times sharp, unlike the music, which will also include flats…). This traditional event has been a feature of the Clongowes calendar for many years and is an opportunity to…read article

29th November 2016

Tom Murphy’s 1961 work, ‘A Whistle in the Dark’, is a brave play for any group to put on. Dark, notoriously violent and essentially dismal, it succeeds or fails like few others on on the actors’ individual understandings of the tensions between

28th November 2016

A member of the community of Clongowes Wood College SJ, Fr. Vincent Murphy SJ, passed away peacefully this morning, in Cherryfield Lodge, Milltown Park; he will be sadly missed. Vincent was born in Ranelagh, Dublin in 1929 and educated in Synge St by the Christian Brothers. He qualified as a Quantity Surveyor and played for Shamrock…read article

27th November 2016

Fabulous Christmas Cards are now being sold in aid of the Duck Push, which purchases medical equipment for sick children. Everyone likes to support a charity at Christmas, and this charity is really worth it. Why not buy your cards now so you don’t leave it too late!? The high quality Christmas cards feature art…read article

26th November 2016

The Music Performance Area was filled to capacity last week (Tuesday 15th, November) for the annual Past versus Present debate. This event has been held in the College each year since 2007 and was first launched by Fr. Conor Harper S.J. and Mr. Anthony Kenny (OC 55). Officially known as the Daniel O’Connell Memorial Debate,…read article

25th November 2016

The tradition of science and mathematics is alive and well in Clongowes Wood and last Thursday, 17th November, the college received another accolade by coming first in the Regional ISTA Senior Science Quiz… Six students from Rhetoric, accompanied by Mr. Stephen O’Hara and Mr. Kevin Maume travelled to NUI Maynooth to take part, hoping to…read article

24th November 2016

It has been a good first term for golfers at Clongowes and this has been reflected in the from of senior skipper Conor Mulholland (Rhetoric), who has been on the Leinster under 18 panel for the last two years. Brothers James and Niall McCormick (Poetry) participated in the Ulster U-21 Youth Championship in Royal Belfast…read article

23rd November 2016

The Clongowes premiere of A Whistle in the Dark brings together two exciting talents: writer Tom Murphy (author of The Gigli Concert and Conversations on a Homecoming) and director Tom Carroll, fresh from his recent successes with Drumbelly (2014) and the aforementioned Conversations on a Homecoming (2015). ‘Tom Murphy’s searing indictment of a distorted Irish masculinity,…read article

21st November 2016

GRAMMAR PARENT DAY Grammar Parent Day will take place on this Sunday 27th November 2016 as indicated on the school calendar. The day will begin at 10am with Eucharist in the Sports Hall and will end at 1pm with lunch, which will be provided in the refectory. (Full schedule here) Our presenter will be Mr…read article