Education
Milltown Summer School
June 23, 2009
The focus of the Ignatian Summer School at the Milltown Institute was on Social Discernment. The issue was this: Imagine you’re at a meeting where you may be the only person concerned...
Read moreThe Jes wins education grant
June 23, 2009
Coláiste Iognáid (the ‘Jes’) has won a Hewlett Packard Innovation in Education grant which will provide a mobile classroom of tablet PCs. Along with NUI Galway, the Galway school was...
Read moreHard school to get into
June 16, 2009
In his column in Avondhu (a Co. Cork weekly), David Gaffney SJ gives a new meaning to educational exclusivity. The Jesuit school in Kibera, a slum of Nairobi, Kenya, has...
Read moreJesuitica: Changing times
June 16, 2009
When Pope Gregory XIII needed advice on how to revise the Julian calendar in 1582, he turned to a Jesuit mathematician at the Roman College, Christopher Clavius, who said: “Suppress...
Read moreShort notices and events
June 16, 2009
The US Catholic network EWTN will broadcast the DVD entitled ‘The Heart of Jesus in History’ on their European network at 7.30 a.m. on Friday 19 June, the Feast of the...
Read moreA Jubilee Mural
June 9, 2009
As part of the celebration of its 50th Anniversary, the children of St. Declan’s school, under the guidance of artist Niamh Sinnott, have been engaged in creating a ceramic wall mural...
Read moreBelvedere’s Gift to ‘Knock
June 9, 2009
Oliver Murphy worked in Gonzaga as a boy and Belvedere as a teacher, so both schools will have felt some pride in his appointment as Headmaster of Castleknock College. Oliver...
Read moreBelvedere athletes: the founder
June 9, 2009
The crowning of the Belvedere boys as athletic champions reminded a modest Dick Cremins SJ of his part in laying the foundations of this success. In the summer of 1951,...
Read moreOverlooked in Irish History
June 2, 2009
The Summer number of Studies has appeared, on the theme: Overlooked in Irish History. The basket of the overlooked holds two women (Nagle and Hayden), four men (Redmond, Sheehan, McCullough...
Read moreBelvedere athletes crowned
June 2, 2009
On 23 May Belvedere athletes were crowned All Ireland champions for boys’ schools when they won the College of Science Cup for a record 11th consecutive time. Belvedere amassed more points...
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