Clongowes Stories

10th November 2014

Clongowes Foundation is delighted to host The Leadership Series with Guest Speaker Patrick Joy OC’69 ‘How leading with customer focus and product innovation fuels global market penetration and business success’ On: Wednesday 5th Nov at 6.00 pm In: The Clyde Court Hotel, Dublin 4 All Welcome RSVP: Aine Burns Tel.  045 902334 Email: administrator@clongowes.net Previous…read article

7th November 2014

Book Character Dress-up Day A joint literacy and ‘Men for Others’ initiative saw the staff and students of Clongowes raise in excess of €650 for the Irish Red Cross Ebola Appeal on Book Character Dress-up Day last Wednesday (5th, November). The day was the brain child of College Librarian, Ms Jane O’Loughlin (a.k.a. The Snow…read article

5th November 2014

Outstanding Musicians Congratulations to orchestral musicians Jack Savage (viola) in Poetry and Colin Bourke (trumpet) in Syntax. Both received High Achiever Awards from the Royal Irish Academy of Music because of their outstanding results in their grade exams last May. Congratulations also to David Dudeney (percussion) in Rhetoric, who successfully auditioned for the Dublin Symphony…read article

3rd November 2014

Transitioning through James Joyce’s Dublin As part of Mr Tom Carroll’s English class, Transition Year students are studying James Joyce’s Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, so where better to start than with a day out in Joyce’s Dublin? ‘City of paralysis’ it is not as the budding Joyceans discovered…read article

28th October 2014

Mulled Wine, Mince Pies and Music! One of the highlights of the festive calendar in Clongowes is the Christmas Concert, which this year takes place on  Sunday 7th December from 15.00 to 17.00 (both times sharp, unlike the music, which will also include flats…). This traditional event has been a feature of the Clongowes calendar for many…read article

27th October 2014

Clongowes Wood College Bicentenary Committee cordially invites Staff, Parents and Past Pupils to the: Daniel O’Connell Memorial Debate  A Special Bicentenary Celebration of Debating in Clongowes Past and Present  On Friday 7th November 2014. At 6.30 p.m. Chair:  Mr John Bruton (Taoiseach, 1994-1997)  Motion:  “ This House believes that a Jesuit Education is more relevant today…read article

26th October 2014

As the trophy sat proudly beside the new Oval Pitch, it seemed destined to find its long-term residency in the castle behind it. Alas, it was not to be.  The spectacular piece will instead make its way to Ailesbury Road, having been clinched by St. Michael’s with a narrow 3-0 victory over close rivals Blackrock…read article

24th October 2014

To find the times and locations of all the matches in  the Bicentenary Rugby Festival as well as profiles of all the teams involved, information about the history of rugby in Clongowes and much, much more check out the complete programme here

23rd October 2014

Updated results and fixtures list.   [table id=2 /]

22nd October 2014

As the leaves gather by the roadside, ghastly masks appear at the shop fronts and European Rugby returns to the fixture list, there isn’t a schoolchild in the country that hasn’t cast an eye on the midterm break that is creeping up. Having been eager to make a good impression on their new mentors both…read article