Clongowes Stories

26th November 2016

The Music Performance Area was filled to capacity last week (Tuesday 15th, November) for the annual Past versus Present debate. This event has been held in the College each year since 2007 and was first launched by Fr. Conor Harper S.J. and Mr. Anthony Kenny (OC 55). Officially known as the Daniel O’Connell Memorial Debate,…read article

25th November 2016

The tradition of science and mathematics is alive and well in Clongowes Wood and last Thursday, 17th November, the college received another accolade by coming first in the Regional ISTA Senior Science Quiz… Six students from Rhetoric, accompanied by Mr. Stephen O’Hara and Mr. Kevin Maume travelled to NUI Maynooth to take part, hoping to…read article

24th November 2016

It has been a good first term for golfers at Clongowes and this has been reflected in the from of senior skipper Conor Mulholland (Rhetoric), who has been on the Leinster under 18 panel for the last two years. Brothers James and Niall McCormick (Poetry) participated in the Ulster U-21 Youth Championship in Royal Belfast…read article

23rd November 2016

The Clongowes premiere of A Whistle in the Dark brings together two exciting talents: writer Tom Murphy (author of The Gigli Concert and Conversations on a Homecoming) and director Tom Carroll, fresh from his recent successes with Drumbelly (2014) and the aforementioned Conversations on a Homecoming (2015). ‘Tom Murphy’s searing indictment of a distorted Irish masculinity,…read article

21st November 2016

GRAMMAR PARENT DAY Grammar Parent Day will take place on this Sunday 27th November 2016 as indicated on the school calendar. The day will begin at 10am with Eucharist in the Sports Hall and will end at 1pm with lunch, which will be provided in the refectory. (Full schedule here) Our presenter will be Mr…read article

21st November 2016

The Clongowes Wood College Foundation welcomed over 350 alumni, current parents along with the Rector, Fr. Michael Sheil SJ and our new Jesuit Provincial Fr. Leonard Moloney SJ to the O’Callaghan’s…

19th November 2016

This week some members of our year group helped to check and pack Christmas presents at Team Hope’s Depot at nearby Peamount Hospital in Newcastle. (See info@teamhope.ie for more information on this project). We are all familiar with the annual appeal for shoebox presents for children throughout the country and it was a privilege to…read article

17th November 2016

We are delighted to announce that seven of our outstanding students from the Rhetoric graduating class of 2016 have been recognised as UCD Entrance Scholars. Each year UCD recognises the calibre of its incoming high-achieving students with the award of UCD Entrance Scholar, which are presented to first year students who achieve 560 points or…read article

15th November 2016

The hearts of Clongownians worldwide will have beaten a little faster and their pulses quickened last Friday when John Vincent Holland (OC 1909) was amongst those remembered at a wreath laying ceremony in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin. The wreaths were laid in an Armistice Day ceremony at the Cross of Sacrifice, to remember the thousands of…read article

9th November 2016

Book Character Dress-up Day. Thanks to all who got into the spirit and fun of our fourth Book Character Dress-up Day, an event that’s always guaranteed to bring some fun and colour to dull November. Staff embraced it like never before as a variety of characters spilled out onto the corridors and students found that…read article