Clongowes Life
This year’s Clongowes Life Magazine is jam packed full of news and photos! Browse the pages for peek into the varied and vibrant life at our boarding school. Enjoy!
Information for Past Pupils
The following is information published by the Jesuit Province for past pupils impacted by Joseph Marmion SJ Barbara Walshe and Catherine O’Connell have worked extensively both as practitioners and…
Richard Robinson 1920-2019
The Foundation and College are deeply grateful to the late Richard (Dick), Robinson who in his will, generously bequeathed a substantial legacy to the Foundation. Born in 1920, Dick lived…
Interhouse Sports Day 2020
Our annual sports day took place on September 21st much to the excitement of the students. The boys were blessed with good weather and offered some welcome reprieve from the…
Clongowes Foundation 15 Year Anniversary
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…
Live Broadcast of Sunday Mass
Apart but in Communion This coming Sunday the 4th October will see an important and innovative step forward for liturgy in Clongowes when we broadcast our first television Mass from…
Tantalus in Cold Storage
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…
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…
25.06.1970 For the past, Thanks! – For the future, Yes! 25.06.2020
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…
A Message from The Headmaster
It is 50 years to the day that Fr Michael Sheil SJ was ordained as a Jesuit priest. This is a remarkable milestone and those – very many – of…