St. Joseph's, Fairview
So many things happen in the month of May in any one school in the country that it merits Mr Cullen’s designation as “May madness.” Hence, it is only now that I am getting around to uploading this short series of End of Year Events. Click on an image below to magnify. The … Read more
On 15/03/2016, we celebrated National Flag and Proclamation Day. This collage of photos was assembled by our photographer for the day, past pupil, Mr Leo “George” Devitt. There is a display of these pictures in the corridor leading into the Secretary’s office: … Read more
On Easter Monday 28th March, three Sixth Year Students, Conor O’Reilly, Stephen Moran and James Morgan accompanied Mr Quinlan to a special gathering of the descendants/relatives of those Volunteers and Irish Citizen Army members who fought in the G.P.O. during the 1916 Rising. Mr Seán O’Connell, president of the Past Pupils Union and his wife … Read more
[General Note: From the second image collage onwards, please click on the image for an enlarged version] On Tuesday last, the 26th January, the Past Pupils Union, under the leadership of its president, Seán Ó Connell, hosted a well-attended and universally praised event to mark the hundredth anniversary of the 1916 Rising. Among the … Read more
As the saying goes: the cream always rises to the top. A small team of boys under the wise direction of Conor O’Reilly mounted an informative project as a small part of a wide-ranging exhibition and a series of talks on Easter Week 1916. In the press release for this two-day commemoration we read the … Read more
Thanks to the on-going commitment of Conor O’Reilly, our Past Pupils Page continues to be added to with interesting memorabilia and fine class photographs both from the distant and more recent past. If you have not checked in on this rich and wonderful section of our webpage you are missing out on some wonderful and … Read more