Parents’ Book Club
This is a reminder that the Parents’ Book Club will be having its Christmas evening out on Wednesday, 14th December, at Vie de Chateau in Naas at 6pm. All are…
Trad Group in Shannnonbridge
On Friday, 18th of November, the Clongowes Trad Group headed off for Shannonbridge in County Offaly, for an afternoon of traditional music at its finest. Fred Sargaison from Syntax, who…
Fine Art Exhibition – December 2016
The Annual Clongowes Fine Art Exhibition is now showing in the Concourse and will continue until Sunday 18th December. The official opening will take place after Mass on Sunday 11th…
Clongowes Choirs on Lyric FM
Before the weekend break the Elements and Senior Choirs gave their annual performance for the Age Action group in the James Joyce Library. For the Elements choir it was their…
Mulled Wine, Mince Pies & Music!
One of the highlights of the festive calendar in Clongowes is the Christmas Concert, which this year takes place on Sunday 11th December from 15.00 to 17.00 (both times sharp, unlike…
Rhetoric Play
Tom Murphy’s 1961 work, ‘A Whistle in the Dark’, is a brave play for any group to put on. Dark, notoriously violent and essentially dismal, it succeeds or fails like few others on on the actors’ individual understandings of the tensions between
Past v Present Debate
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…
Rhetoric Play
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…
Love, Hate and Clongowes
Love/Hate has a bit of a Marmite taste it would seem. Some would rather watch the Antiques Roadshow but 1.3million others have been glued to RTE every Sunday over the…
Cyclone Anti-Bullying Workshop
Last Thursday (10th October) the celebrated Cyclone Repertory Theatre Company from Cork brought their acclaimed Bullying Prevention Session to The Old Library in Clongowes for the boys of the Lower…