There is always a great sense of achievement for all parties in a school – Students – Teachers – Administration – Parents/Guardians – when the Hallow’een [Eve of All Saints’ Day] mid-term is reached – for it means that the academic year is well advanced and in full swing. This has never been more truly…
Given all the Covid19 restrictions, the six SJ Past Pupils Unions (Belvedere, Clongowes, Crescent, Gonzaga, Colaiste Iognaid and Mungret) have joined forces to do an online event. To register your place please email jai500th@gmail.com. If you cannot make the 6.45 for 7pm slot on Thurs Oct 22, just register to get a copy of the video afterwards.
Out of the adversity that COVID-19 caused when we were first presented with the illness rose a band of Old Clongownian amateur swimmers, the aptly named ‘Gollymocky Whalers’. The group, who have now expanded to 23 members, began in May with a much humbler enrollment. The group’s founding fathers Adam Mac Nulty (OC’88) &…
The end of 2019 marked the 15 Year anniversary of the creation of the Clongowes Wood College Foundation. Those fifteen years have been an extraordinarily active period for the Foundation as it worked together with the management and the board of the School to renew and expand the campus and to extend access, through the…
The Clongowes Union Annual Business Lunch Dear Fellow Old Clongownians, Regrettably, due to Covid19 and the continuing restrictions that are in place, we have to cancel our annual Business Lunch. Each year the Business Lunch generates vital funding for the wonderful work undertaken by the Peter McVerry Trust. Over the past number of years we…
There are many cautionary tales abounding from classical times – as relationships among the gods [way-up-there!] worked out in their lives in a very human way – and also in human and divine interaction. The lives of the gods mirrored those of humans – or was it vice versa?! – for all the panoply of the…
Thalassa ! Thalassa ! To horse ! To horse ! And here we are only a mere week away from reaching home-port – or should that read starting-post …… at last ! But why, you may ask – that title ? …… ans. = Xenophon. In the 5th/4th centuries B.C….
In accepting this honour of becoming your Union President for the coming year, I am mindful of the difficult circumstances we must navigate our way through. The uncertainty for current students, parents and Old Clongownians is one I share and I hope you have all taken comfort from our strong community with the ongoing communications…
Dag Hammarksjold – the second Sec.Gen. of the UN from 1953 to 1961 – died in a plane crash in Zambia while trying to negotiate peace in a civil war in the Congo. He was a Swedish Lutheran – and was an economist and diplomat – described as an intensely dedicated public servant – who drew sense…
Ireland now stands in imminent danger. If Popery succeeds – our fairest plains will once more witness days worthy to rank with those of Bloody Mary – and the Walls of Derry shall again become the lamentable bulwark against Popish treachery and massacre! Strong words of alarm there! Strong words indeed! …….. the tocsin was sounded, I read in…