Games of Thrones
While Woody Allen may have quipped that he failed to make the chess team because of his height, the same may not be said of the intellectual giants from Elements…
Past v Present Golf
In 1978, to mark our success in the Leinster Schools’ Senior Cup, J. Brendan Prendiville (OC’40) presented the Prendiville Plate for annual competition between the Past and the Present. All…
‘A man of vision’
The new leader of the Jesuits worldwide is ‘decisive, visionary and has a great sense of humour,’ according to Gerry Whelan SJ, an Irish Jesuit who lectures in the Gregorian…
From a Land Down Under
This year’s Transition Year Australian Exchange, which takes place from early October to early December, is well under way and all the boys involved have settled in very well and…
Making Good Decisions
Rudiments Parent Day will take place on this Sunday 23rd October 2016 as indicated on the school calendar. The day will begin at 10am with Eucharist in the Sports Hall. Refreshments will…
Open Day
As the prospective pupils of Rhetoric 2022 arrived down the autumn clad avenue for their first taste of life in Clongowes Wood College on Saturday last (October 8th) one could…
Wellread Clongowes
It will come as no surprise to visitors to either this website (and the Library Blog in particular) or to the magnificent real world James Joyce Library in the college…
Syntax Jailbirds
On Monday, October 3rd, the Syntax year group took a trip to Kilmainham Gaol eager to learn about the prison’s history. Clongowes was lucky to have award-winning writer Aaron Clarke…
Kids Helping Kids
For almost twenty five years the Transition Year students in Clongowes have made raising money to buy a piece of life saving equipment for Crumlin Children’s Hospital an annual goal.…
Between the Jigs and the Reels
On last Tuesday, October 3rd the Clongowes Trad Group returned to Connolly’s of Ballagh for the annual ‘Trad for Trócaire’ Session. We were joined on the night by representatives from…