Education

JESUITICA: Going multi-denominational

February 8, 2011

Attentive readers of AMDG Express (7 December, 2010) will have noticed that in founding Clongowes, Fr Peter Kenney told Sir Robert Peel that he intended to establish a lay school for...

African exchange

February 8, 2011

Claire Broderick and the students of Elements Xavier, Belvedere College, along with John Guiney SJ and Deirdre Connolly from the Jesuit Mission Office, are working on a link project with...

Why care?

January 25, 2011

Labour’s Eamon Gilmore was due to be the launcher, but at the last minute the drama in Leinster House pulled him away. So it was the Crescent Transition Year students...

‘Skippy Dies’ author visits Clongowes

January 25, 2011

Paul Murray, author of the highly-acclaimed novel Skippy Dies, visited Clongowes Wood College on Wednesday 19 January and spoke to a group of students and staff about the writing process....

Young Scientists make an impact

January 25, 2011

Of the seven Young Scientists from Jesuit schools who showed projects at the RDS this month, two were awarded first prizes in their sections. Gonzaga’s Rory D. Hughes won first...

Collecting in the cold

January 11, 2011

The Annual Belvedere College Sleep-Out and Fast 2010 raised €111,000 for charities for the homeless: Fr. Peter McVerry Trust, Focus Ireland and Home Again Society. Facing the worst conditions ever...

Gonzaga galaxy

January 6, 2011

This is the year that the Gonzaga class of 1972 (25 boys) came into its own, with an unusual range of services to the country. Two of its lawyers head respectively Ireland’s...

Songs and sausages

January 6, 2011

It nearly did not happen – snow had closed the school for days, and travel was difficult. But on the Second Sunday of Advent, in a packed College chapel, a candle...

‘Blind obedience’ from Belvedere students

January 26, 2010

Two Belvedere College students won second prize in the BT Young Scientist Exhibition awards at the RDS, Dublin, 13-16 Jan. Owen Killian and Andrew Griffin investigated the use of intense ultraviolet radiation...

‘Crescent’ bridge from poverty to prosperity

January 26, 2010

Students of Crescent College Comprehensive were told by President Mary McAleese that they carried with them an ‘imprint of Jesuit education, a character which doesn’t change’. Speaking at a closing...

The Pope and the President

April 20, 2026 - Fr. Donal Godfrey SJ, reflects on the recent remarks of Pope Leo XIV and the response to them from Donald Trump and his administration.

‘A privilege to be part of it’

April 15, 2026 - The celebratory event to mark the historic Silver Jubilee of postgraduate studies in Applied Spirituality was a special day for all involved.

An attitude of gratitude

April 14, 2026 - Gratitude: The solution to worry, Kierkegaard claimed, was to make a leap of faith and put our trust in God’s enduring love.

April Messenger: Hope, renewal and growth

April 13, 2026 - In these uncertain times, the April Messenger offers rest and reflection, with themes of hope, renewal, gratitude and transformation in everyday life.