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A pilgrimage of trust on earth

1st May 2014

The annual Easter pilgrimage to Taizé in France took place over Holy Week, and once again it proved to be a time and place wherein the students from Poetry took the opportunity to deepen their faith and live a life of simplicity, prayer and community along with about 5,000 other young people from all over…read article

A Cultural Symphony

29th April 2014

On next Saturday (May 3rd) at 14.30 The Eichendorff School Orchestra from Germany (below), St. Joseph’s Senior National School Band under the Ballymun Music Programme with conductor Ron Cooney and The Orchestra of Clongowes Wood College with conductor Philip Thomas will present a cultural symphony in the Boys’ Chapel. The Concert is expected to run…read article

A Clongownian at Westminster

10th April 2014

The hearts of Clongownians worldwide will have beaten a little faster and their pulses quickened last Tuesday as President Michael D Higgins mentioned one of our alumni, Tom Kettle (OC 1897), when he became the first Irish head of state to address members of the House of Commons and the House of Lords in the…read article

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