Dear Old Clongownians On behalf of Emma and I, we truly hope that you are all keeping well and that you are coping in these most unprecedented times. Emma and I will be working from home but both of us are accessible by email (please see our contact details below). Every year we look forward…
On the 26th November Fr Philip Fogarty passed away after a lifetime as a good and faithful servant of God and The Society of Jesus. On Sunday two weeks ago, I was honoured to join with you to celebrate his life and his tremendous contribution to the living culture and ethos of Clongowes Wood…
This year’s Union Retreat will take place in the College on Thursday, 9th April (Holy Thursday) and Friday, 10th April (Good Friday). Fr. Shane Daly, S.J. will act as the Retreat Director. Fr. Shane is a member of the Clongowes Jesuit community and presently engages in theological studies at the Loyola School of…
NIALL BEDDY 0C ‘04 Clongowes Union are delighted to announce that Níall Beddy OC 04 is our Alumnus of the Year 2019. Niall, emigrated to South Africa in 2010 with the aim of volunteering with a wildlife conservation programme for a few months, ten years later he is still there. A thoroughly devoted and selfless…
The Alberto Hurtado Endowment Fund Launch Event, 28th January, 2020 at the Merrion Hotel, Dublin 2. The Alberto Hurtado Endowment Fund is an externally managed, permanent fund, whose objective is to secure the funding of the Alberto Hurtado Programme. The Alberto Hurtado Programme (AHP) was launched in 2007. It is a bursary scheme inspired by…
There will be a Memorial Mass at 11H00 in Clongowes Wood College on Sunday 19th January 2020 for the late Fr Philip Fogarty, S.J. who died in Pittsburgh, USA, on 26th November and whose funeral took place there on 3rd December. May he rest in peace. Philip was a Past Pupil of Clongowes…
Nominations are requested from Old Clongownians, the Jesuit community, Clongowes staff and current parents, for suitable candidates to receive the Clongowes ‘Alumnus of the Year’ award. This award was first presented at the Clongowes Union Annual Dinner in February 2015, and annually thereafter. Nominations will be welcomed for outstanding Old Clongownian candidates…
We regret to inform you that Fr Phillip Fogarty SJ has died in Pittsburgh, USA. May he Rest in Peace. The funeral and burial will take place in Pittsburgh, USA. Fr Philip was Headmaster at Clongowes Wood College from July 1976 – Aug 1987. Funeral arrangements will be announced later.
A reunion of Old Clongownians who currently reside in North America took place on Saturday 28th September at the National Arts Club on Gramercy Park in New York City. The dinner was attended by just short of 50 people of which, 32 were past pupils of the College. The incoming President of the Union Paul…