Drop Everything And Read
World Book Day It has become a tradition that in order to celebrate World Book Day here in Clongowes we “Drop Everything And Read” (D.E.A.R.). As in previous years students…
Read MoreA pilgrimage of trust on earth
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…
Read MoreA Cultural Symphony
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…
Read MoreA Clongownian at Westminster
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…
Read MoreA positive transition
Congratulations are due to all involved in the recent Transition Year inspection and most especially to the TY coordinator, Mr. Paul McCormack, who has put so much effort into the…
Read MoreOur friends in the North: Portora return
Before Christmas students and staff from Clongowes visited Portora Royal School in Enniskillen for Remembrance Day (see http://localhost:8080/?p=3250). Last month (March 9th and 10th) Portora returned the favour when a…
Read MoreThe man who married a mountain
The exotically named (and eccentric) Comte Henry Patrick Marie Russell-Killough (OC 1852), one of our more intriguing Old Clongownians, came from a long lineage associated with Killough Castle in Co…
Read MoreMore Gaps in the schedule at Clongowes.
The start of January saw the arrival of the latest batch of GAP students from a land down under. Mr Tony Egan was swift to ensure that they were warmly…
Read MorePeter McVerry – A Free Man at last
Last Saturday in Dublin’s Mansion House, when Peter McVerry SJ (OC’62) was given the freedom of the city, he saved the ceremony from becoming too solemn for himself and fellow-freeman…
Read MoreSCT Final: Clongowes v Blackrock
Sunday 16th March, RDS – Kick off 2pm The History: Clongowes Wood College has met Blackrock College in the Leinster Schools’ Senior Cup Final nine times since 1887 (1927, 1928, 1936, 1949, 1953, 1981,…
Read MoreFight for Jack, Cheer for Jack
Friday 21st February saw a whole generation of Old Clongownians come together to do their part for the Jack Kavanagh Trust Fund. With ‘Fight For Jack’ having sold out a week…
Read MoreRuck on up to Donnybrook
Leinster schools rugby players tog out for Jack Kavanagh Trust. Yesterday’s Leinster School’s Senior Cup Final was an extraordinary match and a roller-coaster ride for Clongowes supporters. The day will…
Read MoreSeachtain na Gaeilge
Beginning on Monday the 24th March 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…
Read MoreA performance that had everything
Surprisingly, before last Sunday’s final it had been 10 years since the fiercest of Senior Cup rivals last met at this stage of the competition. That day a monstrous forward…
Read MoreRuck on up to Donnybrook
Leinster schools rugby players tog out for Jack Kavanagh Trust. Yesterday’s Leinster School’s Senior Cup Final was an extraordinary match and a roller-coaster ride for Clongowes supporters. The day will…
Read MoreSCT Final: Clongowes v Blackrock
Sunday 16th March, RDS – Kick off 2pm The History: Clongowes Wood College has met Blackrock College in the Leinster Schools’ Senior Cup Final nine times since 1887 (1927, 1928, 1936, 1949, 1953, 1981,…
Read MoreA performance that had everything
Surprisingly, before last Sunday’s final it had been 10 years since the fiercest of Senior Cup rivals last met at this stage of the competition. That day a monstrous forward…
Read MoreFight for Jack, Cheer for Jack
Friday 21st February saw a whole generation of Old Clongownians come together to do their part for the Jack Kavanagh Trust Fund. With ‘Fight For Jack’ having sold out a…
Read MoreWhen rugby and history rhyme…
Clongowes Wood College 27, St. Andrew’s 12 Last Tuesday one of the most important milestones in the history of Clongowes, the purchase of the school property for £16,000 by Fr.…
Read More200 years and still counting…
Two hundred years ago today, on 4th March 1814, Fr Peter Kenney, SJ purchased the estate at Castle Browne for £16,000 (approx. €3 million today) with a view to establishing…
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