Cultural

1st April 2017

The Clongowes Trad group will be playing in Connolly’s of Ballagh on Tuesday, April 4th from 19.30-21.30. This promises to be a great night of music and song and provides an opportunity to say thank you and farewell to our sixth year student, John lappin who has been with us since third year. Started in 2008 by Clongowes…read article

27th March 2017

This coming Thursday and Friday (30th and 31st March) at 19.00, Third Line and Syntax take to the stage with their dramatic offerings as Clongowes witnesses the long awaited return of its very own Festival of Drama… Ernie’s Incredible Illucinations Ernie’s incredible imagination is alarming his parents and they go to the doctor in search…read article

27th March 2017

Tuesday the 21st of March provided an unique day for us. To witness the pure comedy provided by the brilliant French Theatre For Schools was an experience I’ll certainly not forget. It gave the chance for all Poetry French students to take a ‘deserved’ break from the books and to sit back and enjoy the…read article

25th March 2017

Mr Shane Heslin’s English class have been reading Jane Mitchell’s novel ‘Chalkline’ and decided to invite the author, Jane Mitchell, to Clongowes to give them the inside story on her sensational novel. Much to their delight she said yes and ‘Clongowes Digest’ was fortunate to have Harry Browne (from Elements and no mean wordsmith himself)…read article

17th March 2017

Last week (Friday 10th March) Clongowes held set of vocal master classes given by renowned Irish Tenor Emmanuel Lawler, who is also a lecturer in the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama and the Chairman of Feis Ceoil. Members of the Senior Choir, Schola and members of staff sat in at various times and observed Mr…read article

13th March 2017

Seachtain na Gaeilge i gColáiste Choill Chluana Gabhann Beginning on Monday March 13th we will celebrate Seachtain na Gaeilge in Coláiste Choill Chluana Gabhann (the college of the wood of the meadow of the blacksmith for those who may have wondered what Clongowes actually meant). We would like to thank all teachers in advance of this…read article

7th March 2017

Singing Success for Clongowes If you have any contact with Sean Lannen (Elements – pictured above) over the next few days, please take the time to congratulate him on being awarded first place in the Wesley College Interschool’s Music Festival, in the U14 Solo Singing competition. You might also spare a word for David Scott,…read article

5th March 2017

Liam O’Connell Annual Schools’ Debate Just before the Mid Term Break (Monday, February 6th) a team of three Poetry students attended a parliamentary style debate in the Kildare County Council Buildings in an attempt to regain the Liam O’Connell Perpetual Trophy previously won by Clongowes in 2012 and retained the following year. Jack Dowling recounts…read article

12th February 2017

From the moment they awoke on the morning of January 23rd the First Years were all but uncontainable with excitement at the prospect of the annual trip to Belfast. Cub reporter Fiachra Lamb takes up the story… The excitement was high on Monday 23rd January when our merry band of boys, set off for Belfast, where…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