2016 - Clongowes Wood College - Page 3

Foundation Leadership Series

21st November 2016

The Clongowes Wood College Foundation welcomed over 350 alumni, current parents along with the Rector, Fr. Michael Sheil SJ and our new Jesuit Provincial Fr. Leonard Moloney SJ to the O’Callaghan’s…

Hope for Christmas

19th November 2016

This week some members of our year group helped to check and pack Christmas presents at Team Hope’s Depot at nearby Peamount Hospital in Newcastle. (See info@teamhope.ie for more information on this project). We are all familiar with the annual appeal for shoebox presents for children throughout the country and it was a privilege to…read article

UCD Entrance Scholars

17th November 2016

We are delighted to announce that seven of our outstanding students from the Rhetoric graduating class of 2016 have been recognised as UCD Entrance Scholars. Each year UCD recognises the calibre of its incoming high-achieving students with the award of UCD Entrance Scholar, which are presented to first year students who achieve 560 points or…read article

John Vincent Holland OC VC

15th November 2016

The hearts of Clongownians worldwide will have beaten a little faster and their pulses quickened last Friday when John Vincent Holland (OC 1909) was amongst those remembered at a wreath laying ceremony in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin. The wreaths were laid in an Armistice Day ceremony at the Cross of Sacrifice, to remember the thousands of…read article

Fictional Clongowes

9th November 2016

Book Character Dress-up Day. Thanks to all who got into the spirit and fun of our fourth Book Character Dress-up Day, an event that’s always guaranteed to bring some fun and colour to dull November. Staff embraced it like never before as a variety of characters spilled out onto the corridors and students found that…read article

Headmaster’s Assembly

7th November 2016

Before lunch on Wednesday October 27th the Boys’ Chapel was packed for the second Headmaster’s Assembly of the year. After the opening prayer by the Rector, Fr Michael Sheil, the Headmaster, Mr Chris Lumb took to the podium to recognise some of the achievements of our students in recent weeks. As the first half term (by…read article

New Irish Provincial

7th November 2016

Fr Leonard Moloney SJ has been named as the next Provincial of the Irish Jesuit Province. The current Provincial, Fr Tom Layden, wrote to Jesuits and colleagues this morning, Monday 7th November, to inform them that the Jesuit Father General, Arturo Sosa, had appointed Leonard Moloney to the position during the work of their General…read article

Answering The Call

2nd November 2016

On the 27th of October we had the great honour of interviewing visiting Old Clongownian and author Peadar Ó Guilín (OC’86). The Call is Peadar’s second book and has become quite popular in the school, particularly among the various book club members. A Young Adult fantasy horror, it is a great book for fans of…read article

Arma virumque cano

24th October 2016

While Virgil’s Aeneid (and its immortal opening phrase that sings of arms and the man) was composed more than two thousand years before Alastair Campbell addressed the Fourth Clongowes Business Lunch in Dublin last Friday, the themes addressed by both men are timeless and have much in common… More than 250 souls – mostly Old…read article

Games of Thrones

23rd October 2016

While Woody Allen may have quipped that he failed to make the chess team because of his height, the same may not be said of the intellectual giants from Elements and Rudiments who took on the might of St. Kevin’s College, Crumlin last Thursday (20th October) and acquitted themselves with no little distinction…  St.Kevin’s College,…read article

Go to Top