O'Connell School
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| O'Connell C.B.S. | |
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| Location | |
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North Richmond Street, Dublin 1 | |
| Coordinates | 53°21′33″N 6°15′05″W / 53.3593°N 6.2515°W |
| Information | |
| Motto | ciall agus neart (power and strength) |
| Established | 1828 |
| Principal | Gerry Duffy (secondary) and Patsy O'Keefe (primary) |
| Staff | over 400 |
| Gender | male |
| Number of students | over 500 including (living certs repeats) secondary 200(primary) |
| Religious order | Congregation of Christian Brothers |
| Website | oconnellschool.ie |
The O’Connell School is a secondary and a primary school for boys located on North Richmond Street in Dublin, Ireland. The school, named in honour of the leader of Catholic Emancipation, Daniel O’Connell, has the distinction of being the oldest surviving Christian Brothers school in Dublin, having been first established in 1829. James Joyce attended the school for a time, and it is mentioned in Dubliners in the story Araby. The school was for many years dubbed the "working man's Belvedere College" (in reference to the nearby fee-paying school of that name, and because of its good reputation). James Joyce transferred from O'Connell School to Belvedere after being offered a place there.
Notable staff and past pupils
A number of significant figures in Irish public life attended O'Connell's School.
- Maurice Ahern - former Lord Mayor of Dublin
- Brendan Bracken, 1st Viscount Bracken - British Minister of Information during the Second World War
- Ray Burke - former Fianna Fáil politician.
- Eamonn Ceannt – Irish Nationalist one of the 1916 signatories.
- John A. Costello - former Taoiseach of Ireland.
- Bill Cullen (businessman) - Irish businessman, philanthropist and star of The Apprentice (Irish TV series).
- Paddy Finucane – World War II top scoring fighter pilot ace in the RAF.
- Frank Flood - IRA officer executed in 1921 during the War of Independence. One of The Forgotten Ten.
- Sean Heuston - Leading member of the 1916 Easter Rising.
- Michael Holohan- composer and member of Aosdána.
- James Joyce - writer who briefly attended the school.
- Luke Kelly – former lead singer of folk group The Dubliners.
- Pat Kenny – Radio & TV presenter.
- Bertie Kerr - Ireland football international and bloodstock agent.
- Thomas Kettle – Nationalist MP and Irish Volunteer who died in World War 1.
- Thomas Kinsella – poet and playwright.
- Seán Lemass - former Taoiseach of Ireland.
- P.J. Mara - Fianna Fáil guru
- Colm Meaney - Film and TV Actor.
- William Mulholland - a famous Irish-American dam civil engineer.
- Michael O'Hehir - radio broadcaster and sports commentator.
- Seán T. O'Kelly – second President of Ireland.
- Ernie O'Malley - Irish Nationalist and writer
- Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh, the noted sports commentator, briefly taught here.[1]
References
- ^ O Muircheartaigh, Micheal (2006-10-29). "Micheal and the Far East connection". Irish Independent. Retrieved 2012-09-15.