Clongowes Stories

17th January 2019

  The Headmaster, Mr Chris Lumb invites you and your family to join him for a lunchtime event to discover Clongowes Wood College SJ, Ireland. Learn about life at Clongowes for your son which encompasses varied co-curricular activities, strong academic programmes and holistic pastoral care.   Join us to meet current and past parents and…read more

14th January 2019

Last week five new GAP students (or Gappies), Pat Fuccilli, Tom McMahon, Marcke De Vera, Oliver Seymour and Andrew Lawler (left to right above), arrived from Australia. Mr Steven Gray has ensured that the guys have settled well into their new surrounds and are being fully immersed into the world of Clongowes. All five are working…read more

11th January 2019

As one twelve month comes to a close and another arrives and we begin to make all of our plans and set all of our goals for the upcoming year, we ought to take some time to settle with the year that was and tie up whatever loose ends we may have in order to…read more

8th January 2019

Today the Headmaster, Mr Lumb led Morning Prayer with this reflection on the nature of the turning of the year and the genuine hope that the New Year can bring… Happy New Year to you all! As the New Year of 2019 dawned, the news broke that a Chinese spacecraft had become the first to…read more

16th December 2018

‘To see once again old familiar faces…’ ‘The Clongowes Union means the desire of Old Clongownians by coming together to be able to renew old memories [and] to see once again old familiar faces’. These words of John Redmond, M.P., (Vice-President) proposing the toast of the Clongowes Union at the second annual dinner, continue to…read more

14th December 2018

If, as Forrest Gump suggested, life is like a box of chocolates, then Sunday’s Christmas Concert in the Boys’ Chapel was a smorgasbord of magical auditory delights. Compacted into a two-hour feast, we were treated to glorious voices, memorable solo performances and the respective, collective splendours of the Senior and Elements’ Choirs, the Orchestra and…read more

12th December 2018

On December 8th the school community came together to mark the Feast of the Immaculate Conception and to enjoy the annual Christmas Lunch together.Mass was celebrated by the Rector, Fr Michael Sheil SJ who asked each of the boys to consider where they are in the journey of life in general and Advent in particular.The House…read more

10th December 2018

In a powerful and moving Morning Prayer on Monday, a group of Elements students made a presentation to the entire school on the 70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This is the text of their presentation: Today is the 70th Anniversary of ‘Human Rights Day’, a day to 
celebrate the United Nations General…read more

8th December 2018

On Wednesday, 5th December we held our annual Advent Reconciliation Service in Clongowes. Led by the Rector, Fr Michael Sheil SJ, the whole school came together in the Sports Hall at 9.15pm for a 40 minute liturgy exploring the nature of the Sacrament of Reconciliation and to reflect upon the unfashionable concept of personal and communal sin…read more

6th December 2018

While the IRFU was founded in 1874 it was some fourteen years more before some Clongowes students asked the Higher Line Prefect to have rugby posts erected and not until 1923 that Clongowes entered the lists in the Leinster Schools Senior Challenge Cup. Success came early with a somewhat controversial victory over our sister college,…read more