Clongowes Stories

21st January 2017

Last Saturday (January 14th), Transition Year was treated to a C.S.I. workshop by a member of the Sydney Police Department. The groups had to solve a murder case presented by the police using the same information that was available to the real police when they had been asked to solve the mystery. Sean Lysaght was…read article

18th January 2017

The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is traditionally observed from 18th to 25th January – the octave of Saint Peter and Saint Paul. The theme chosen for 2017 is ‘Crossing Barriers’ and the resource material was prepared for worldwide use by the churches in Germany based around the verses 2 Corinthians 5:14-20. The text from…read article

18th January 2017

Energetic, enthusiastic, engaging, encouraging – all this can be said of author Dave Rudden, based on our evening with him last Tuesday (17th January). Rudden’s novel ‘Knights of the Borrowed Dark’, the first of a trilogy, has captured the imaginations of the Book Club students who were in attendance. College Librarian, Jane O’Loughlin takes up…read article

14th January 2017

The Parents’ Association is delighted to invite ALL parents to attend an evening with rugby star Alan Quinlan in the school on Monday 23rd January. Alan will talk about his battle with anxiety-related depression and how he has learnt to deal with it. The event will commence at 7pm in the Refectory. A dedicated and…read article

11th January 2017

Rhetoric Parent Day will take place on next Sunday 15th January 2017 as indicated on the school calendar. The day will begin at 10am and will end after 11.30am Mass. You are invited to lunch in the refectory should you and the boys wish to stay. Our main speaker on Sunday will be Fr Peter Sexton SJ,…read article

29th December 2016

It’s Shakespeare, Jim – but not as we know it… The ubiquitous Bard of Avon wrote Macbeth around 1609, and since then it has been the most performed of his works – more than any other of the great tragedies. Earlier this year the gentlemen of the Year of Transition 2016 decided to make the…read article

27th December 2016

Awards to Elements for Diversifying Reading There is a hunger for reading in Elements as shown by the number of students who were presented with a Reading Challenge Certificate recently by the Headmaster, Mr Chris Lumb. Twenty four Elements students were presented with the award for completing a reading challenge set by the college librarian,…read article

19th December 2016

Yesterday (Sunday, 18th December) seven Rhetoric orchestral musicians and three choristers from Syntax, accompanied by Mr Philip and Ms Theresa Thomas, their son Mark (OC’15) and of course the indispensable Fr Michael Sheil, undertook their annual journey to Cherryfield, the Jesuit convalescence home in Ranelagh to play the most patient of audiences a range of…read article

17th December 2016

The season of goodwill is well and truly upon us here in Clongowes and the boys are immersed in the serious business of Christmas exams, all of which must be done, dusted and reported on before their departure next week for more than two weeks of vacation. Christmas is evident everywhere, from the festive trees…read article

14th December 2016

The Rhetoric Latin class, ten men strong, set off from Dublin Airport at 6 a.m. on Saturday 3rd December accompanied by their guide Dominus Conry and fellow Romanophiles Domini O’Hara et Carroll. Having used the flight time to catch up on some much needed sleep, we taxied to the heart of the ancient city, sweeping…read article