Trad Music Session
Following on from a magnificent performance in the National Concert Hall last month (here), a great evening of music and song was had in Connolly’s Pub, Ballagh last Tuesday night…
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Unlocking the Door to Learning: Post-Primary Literacy Conference
On Saturday last, April 18th, accompanied by Ms Frampton (Learning Support Dept) I attended the PDST Literacy event titled Unlocking the Door to Learning: Post-Primary Literacy Conference. In attendance were over 230…
Read MoreA CWC Day at the Races
Some 200 boys, many joined by their parents, attended the Curragh last Sunday (19th April), when Ireland’s premier racecourse staged a race to celebrate the bicentenary of Ireland’s premier boarding…
Read MoreThird Liners in Donnybrook
‘It’s an amazing opportunity for these guys to play in Donnybrook,’ noted Rob Kearney as the Third Line League final drew to a conclusion on Wednesday. Beside him Fergus McFadden…
Read MoreA CWC Day at the Races
Sunday 19th April 2015 Join us for the Clongowes Wood College SJ Bicentenary Race Day at The Curragh Racecourse. A great day is planned at the Co. Kildare venue with…
Read MoreBicentenary Concert in NCH
From the first tentative arrival of the shades of Fr Peter Kenney and James McLorinan to the last exultant beat of the impish David Dudeney’s drum the National Concert Hall…
Read MoreReturn of the Drama Fest
Incident at Vichy by Arthur Miller was Tom Carroll’s excellent choice for this year’s revived Festival of Drama. With seventeen parts, most of them substantial, it offered the perfect vehicle…
Read MoreGuinness Choir in CWC
My Goodness; it’s Guinness! As part of our Bicentenary celebrations, we were delighted that the renowned Guinness Choir agreed to perform at our Mass last Sunday, March 22nd. They were accompanied on the…
Read MoreTá sé ag teacht…
Seachtain na Gaeilge i gColáiste Choill Chluana Gabhann. Last Monday ( 24th March ) we commenced celebrating Seachtain na Gaeilge in Coláiste Choill Chluana Gabhann (the college of the wood of…
Read MoreAgents of change in CWC
European Confederation of Jesuit Alumni/ae The European Confederation of Jesuit Alumni/ae (ECJA) brings together the Committees of Past Pupils’ Unions from Jesuit schools throughout Europe. The Irish Federation (IFJA) is…
Read MoreFriends Across the Border
Portora return to Clongowes Once again Clongowes hosted our friends and colleagues from the Royal School, Portora, Enniskillen for an overnight return visit to Kildare. It’s always like welcoming friends…
Read MoreNew GAP Students
New GAP Students in Clongowes Patrick Sunderland, Tim McGrath, Edward Jude, Ben Quinn and Hamish Fuller (left to right above) arrived from the Australian heat to the inviting wind and…
Read MoreField of Dreams
All Ireland Schools’ and Universities’ Cross Country Championships If you build it, they will come! As the course for the All Ireland Schools’ and Universities’ Cross Country Championships started to…
Read MoreInaugural Inter-House Literary Quiz
We held our first Inter-House Literary Quiz yesterday evening, Mon 11th of March. The ten Houses were each represented by a team of six, one student from each year. …
Read MoreDrop Everything and Read!
Even Fr Moloney’s dog Trampas got involved in our whole school D.E.A.R. (Drop Everything and Read)…
Read MoreVisit of President Higgins
On Wed 4th March the James Joyce Library was honoured to welcome two most distinguished guests, his Excellency President Michael D. Higgins and his wife Sabina, who were visiting the…
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Visit of President Higgins
On March 4th 2015, 201 years to the day after Fr Peter Kenny sj signed the Deed of Purchase for Clongowes Wood, Ireland’s First Citizen, Uachtarán na hÉireann, President Michael D…
Read MoreWhat might have been
In a match that bore eerie resemblances to last year’s final against Blackrock, the Clongowes SCT almost pulled off one of the great escapes of this (or any other sporting)…
Read MoreClongowes v Belvedere
At 4 pm tomorrow (or today if you’re reading this tomorrow…), in Donnybrook, the purple and white will line out against the black and white, in the semi-final of the…
Read MoreStaff Book Club – Chapter 1
Today we held the first lunchtime meeting of the Staff Book Club. With ten staff in attendance from various sectors of the school, e.g. administration, finance, and teaching we are…
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