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Clongowes Wood College was bought by the Jesuits in 1814 at the cost of £16,000. In 1886, the Jesuit-run St. Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, county Offaly, was amalgamated with Clongowes Wood College. The school is dedicated to St. Aloysius of Gonzaga and is twinned with Portora Royal School, Enniskillen.

Rectors of Clongowes:
Peter Kenney 1814
Charles Aylmer 1817
Bartholomew Esmonde 1820
Peter Kenney 1821
Bartholomew Esmonde 1830
Robert Haly 1836
Robert St Leger 1841
Robert Haly 1842
Michael Kavanagh 1850
Joseph Lentaigne 1855
John McDonald 1858
Eugene Browne 1860
Robert Carbery 1870
Thomas Keating 1876
Edward Kelly 1881
John Conmee 1885
Matthew Devitt 1891
Michael Browne 1900
James Brennan 1900
Vincent Byrne 1904

Clongowes Wood College Union, 1897-

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Clonmore & Reynolds, Ltd, publishers

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Clontarf Historical Society

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Coláiste Iognáid Rowing Club

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Coláiste Iognáid SJ, 1862-

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Since 1620 the Jesuits have, with some involuntary intermissions, been working in Galway. In 1645 our first school was founded through the generosity of Edmund Kirwan. The school, incorporated it seems into a Jesuit residence in the present Abbeygate St, survived and flourished although it had been established at a time of political upheaval and military activity. After the surrender of Galway to the Cromwellian forces in 1652, the Jesuits tried to maintain contact with the people of the area, and there is reference in 1658 to three members of the Society living secretly in County Galway. Jesuits returned openly to Galway after the Restoration of Charles II, but were banished again by Williamite forces in 1691. Once more they made a comeback in 1728 and for forty years they worked among the people of Galway. Sadly, a decrease in manpower forced the withdrawal of the “Mission” in 1768.

In 1859, at the request of the Bishop, members of the Order once more took up residence in the city, this time in Prospect Hill and served in St Patrick’s Church. Within a year they had opened a college near the site of the present Bank of Ireland at 19 Eyre Square. The college’s present location on Sea Road dates from 1863. The modern phase of Coláiste Iognáid began in 1929. The local enthusiasm for the language revival efforts of the emerging State was to be served by a re-invigorated Coláiste Iognáid, which became an Irish-medium School in 1931.

The college now is a co-educational, bilingual, non-fee-paying secondary school.

College of Technology, Bolton Street, 1911-

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College of Technology, Kevin Street, 1887-

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College Studios, photographers

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Robert Sparkes, 31 Westmoreland Street, Dublin.

Colobianae Province of the Society of Jesus

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Columban Hall

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Columbanus Community of Reconciliation

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Combridge and Co. stationers

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18 & 20 Grafton Sreet, Dublin

Comhar, Irish language journal, 1945-

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Comhdháil na nOileán, 1984-

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Commonwealth War Graves Commission, 1917-

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Community Counselling Service Incorporated, fundraisers

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Empire State Building, New York, USA

Conference of Religious of Ireland, 1983-

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Congregation for Catholic Education

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Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life

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Piazza Pio XII, Rome, Italy

Congregation of Christian Brothers, 1802-

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Congregation of the Mission, 1625-

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Connacht Sentinel, newspaper, 1925-2004

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1925-2004

Connacht Tribune, newspaper

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Conradh na Gaeilge, 1893-

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1893-

Consejo y Comisaría de Cruzada, 1525-1851

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1525-1851

Coombe Women & Infants University Hospital, 1826-

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Córas Iompair Éireann

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Cork Constitution, newspaper

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Corpus Christi College, Werribee, 1923-

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1923

Corrigan and Sons, funeral directors

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Coyle and Co., brokers

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Crescent College Comprehensive SJ, 1859-

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1859-

The first Jesuit school in Limerick was founded by Father David Wolfe SJ (1528-c.1578) in 1565. Over the next three hundred years, the Jesuits presence in Limerick ebbed and flowed. By 1640, a Jesuit residence was established at Castle Lane and by 1672, a school was opened near St Mary’s Cathedral. After an interval of eighty-six years from the Suppression of the Society in 1773, the Jesuits returned to Limerick in 1859 after Bishop John Ryan (1784-1864) had invited the Society to establish a school in the city. The school initially opened in 1859 as St Munchin's College on Hartstonge Street. The pioneer Jesuit community in 1859 were Frs. Edward Kelly (1824-1905) (Rector), Thomas Kelly (1829-1898), Peter Foley (1826-1893), Edmund Hogan (1831-1917), Matthew Saurin (1825-1901) and one scholastic, Mr. Matthew Russell (1834-1912). In January 1862, the Jesuits purchased a neighbouring residence, Crescent House. The church building was started in 1864, opened in 1868 and named after the Sacred Heart in 1869. The college had ceased to be a seminary for the diocese in 1867 and was renamed the Sacred Heart College in 1873. Commonly known as the Crescent College, it ceased to be a fee paying school in 1971 and became the Crescent College Comprehensive SJ. In 1973 the Comprehensive moved to a modern greenfield site at Dooradoyle. Later it became a co-educational school and the Crescent Preparatory School was closed in 1976.

Crescent Past Pupils Union