Clongowes Wood College, S.J.

Arts & Media

• Maurice Healy (writer), author of the celebrated memoir The Old Munster Circuit

• Nick Hewer, public relations guru and features on popular shows such as Countdown and The Apprentice.

• Aidan Higgins, writer

• James Joyce, writer

• Francis Sylvester Mahony, 19th-century humorist known by the pen name "Father Prout"

• Paul McGuinness, former business manager for the Irish rock band U2

• David McSavage, comedian, writer and producer of The Savage Eye

• Charles Mitchel, RTÉ's first newsreader

• Micheal O'Siadhail, Irish poet

• Kieran Prendiville, television writer, producer, and creator of the BBC drama Ballykissangel

• John Ryan, artist, broadcaster, publisher, critic, editor, patron and publican

• Sydney Bernard Smith, poet, author, actor, and dramatist

• Patrick James Smyth, journalist

• J. T. Walsh, US film actor

Law

• Sir Donnell Deeny, judge in the High Court of Northern Ireland, Pro-Chancellor of the University of Dublin

• Nial Fennelly, judge of the Supreme Court of Ireland, former Advocate General of the European Court of Justice

• Thomas Finlay, former Irish Fine Gael politician and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ireland

• James FitzGerald-Kenney, Irish politician, former Minister for Justice

• Raymond Groarke. President of the Circuit Court

• Alan Mahon, judge of the Court of Appeal (Ireland)

• James Patrick Mahon, known as the O'Gorman Mahon, journalist, barrister, parliamentarian

• Sir Richard Martin, High Sheriff of Dublin (1866)

• Niall McCarthy (judge), Justice of the Supreme Court of Ireland

• Tom O'Higgins, former Chief Justice of Ireland, former Minister for Health, Judge of the European Court of Justice

• Daniel O'Keeffe, chairperson of the Standards in Public Office Commission, former judge of the High Court

• Christopher Palles, the most eminent Irish judge of his time

• SirJohn Joseph Sheil PC, Lord Justice of Appeal in Northern Ireland

• James John Skinner, first Minister of Justice of the Republic of Zambia and former Chief Justice of Malawi

Politics and diplomacy

• Frederick Boland, first Irish ambassador to the United Kingdom and to the United Nations, Chancellor of the University of Dublin

• John Bruton, former Taoiseach of Ireland

• Richard Bruton, Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

• Simon Coveney, Tánaiste

• Edmund Dwyer-Gray, 29th Premier of Tasmania

• Andrew Kettle, Irish nationalist politician and founder member of the Irish Land League

• Thomas Kettle, Irish journalist, barrister, writer, poet, soldier, economist and Home Rule politician

• Sir Gilbert Laithwaite, former British ambassador to Ireland and High Commissioner to Pakistan

• Patrick Little, Irish Fianna Fáil politician and Government Minister, most notably as the country's longest-serving Minister for Posts & Telegraphs

• Enoch Louis Lowe, 33rd Governor of the US state of Maryland

• Patrick McGilligan, former Irish Minister for Industry and Commerce

• Thomas Francis Meagher, Irish nationalist and leader of the Young Irelanders

• Purcell O'Gorman, soldier and Home Rule League politician[52]

• Kevin O'Higgins, former Irish Vice-President of the Executive Council and Minister for Justice

• Michael O'Higgins, former Fine Gael TD and leader of the Seanad

• Donogh O'Malley, former Irish Minister for Health and Minister for Education

• James O'Mara, nationalist leader and key member of the First Dáil

• The O'Rahilly, Irish Volunteer, killed in the Easter Rising

• John M. O'Sullivan, Cumann na nGaedheal politician, cabinet minister and academic

• Cornelius James Pelly, Irish diplomat

• John Redmond, Irish nationalist politician, barrister, MP in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party from 1900 to 1918

Military

• Francis Clery, British Army General who commanded 2nd Division during the Second Boer War

• Eugene Esmonde, Second World War pilot and posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross

• Aidan MacCarthy, Air Commodore RAF, Doctor, author of 'A Doctor's War'

• Pat Reid, British Army officer who escaped from Colditz and noted nonfiction and historical author

Religion

• Joseph Dalton, Jesuit who founded a number of schools and churches in Australia

• John Charles McQuaid, Catholic Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland between 1940–1972

• The O'Conor Don, Charles O'Conor

Science and Medicine

• Francis Cruise (surgeon), Irish surgeon and urologist best known for inventing an endoscope

• Oliver St John Gogarty, surgeon, writer, critic, and inspiration for Buck Mulligan in James Joyce's Ulysses

• James Bayley Butler - Academic biologist and Zoologist

Business

• Aidan Heavey, CEO of Tullow Oil

• Barry O'Callaghan, Chairman and CEO of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and the Chairman of Education Media & Publishing Group

• Michael O'Leary, CEO of Ryanair

• Tony O'Reilly, Junior, Irish businessman

• Michael Smurfit, Businessman, former CEO of Jefferson Smurfit Group

Sports

• Tadhg Beirne, Irish rugby union international, Munster rugby player, British & Irish Lion

• Brian Carney, Irish rugby league player

• Will Connors, Irish rugby union international, Leinster Rugby Player and former Ireland sevens player

• Thomas Crean, Irish rugby union player, British Army soldier and doctor

• Gordon D'Arcy, Irish rugby union international, British & Irish Lion, Leinster rugby player

• Ted Durcan, Champion Flat Jockey, Winner of multiple global classic races

• Paddy Hopkirk, International Rally driver, winner of Monte Carlo Rally

• David Kearney, Irish rugby union international, Leinster rugby player

• Rob Kearney, Irish rugby union international, British & Irish Lion, Leinster rugby player

• James Magee, Irish cricketer and rugby union player

• Fergus McFadden, Irish rugby union international, Leinster rugby player.

• Max McFarland, Scotland rugby sevens international

• Noel Purcell, Irish rugby union player, Irish & GB water polo Olympian, the first man to have represented two countries at the Olympics[citation needed]

• Patrick Quinlan, Australian cricketer and lawyer

• Arthur Robinson, Irish first-class cricketer

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Belvedere College, S.J.

The arts

• Thomas Bodkin – Director of the National Gallery of Ireland (1927–35)

• Francis Browne – photographer

• Austin Clarke – poet

• Harry Clarke – artist

• Tim Pat Coogan – historian and journalist

• Denis Devlin – poet

• Owen Dudley Edwards – historian and literary expert on Oscar Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle and P.G. Wodehouse[30]

• William Fay – co-founder of the Abbey Theatre

• Jimmy Glover – composer

• Mark Greaney and Fergal Matthews – members of indie rock band JJ72

• James Joyce – writer

• Donagh MacDonagh – poet, playwright, broadcaster, folklorist, and district justice

• Hugh Maguire – violinist, leader of the London and BBC Symphony Orchestras, Allegri string quartet, professor for 26 years at the Royal Academy of Music, and artistic director of the Irish Youth Orchestra

• John O'Conor – pianist and Beethoven master

• Jimmy O'Dea – actor

• Liam O'Flaherty – writer

• Conal O'Riordan – writer

• Jack Reynor- actor

• Eoin Macken - model and actor

• Rejjie Snow – rapper

• Mervyn Wall – writer

• Leo Whelan - painter

Irish history, politics

• Kevin Barry – Irish republican (did not graduate)

• Cathal Brugha – Irish republican (did not graduate)

• Richard Bruton – Fine Gael Teachta Dála (TD) Deputy Leader of Fine Gael & Government Minister

• Jack Chambers – Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála (TD)

• Garret FitzGerald – Fine Gael Taoiseach former Leader of Fine Gael

• Brothers Brian Lenihan and Conor Lenihan – Fianna Fáil Teachtaí Dála (TD)

• William Martin Murphy – Member of Parliament (MP)

• Cian O'Callaghan - member of the Social Democrats (TD) for Dublin Bay North

• Chris O'Malley – Fine Gael Member of European Parliament (MEP), 1986–89

• Joseph Mary Plunkett – rebel; signatory of 1916 Proclamation; executed a month later

• James McNeill - Governor General of the Irish Free State

Legal

• Arthur Cox – founder of eponymous law firm and member of the Seanad

• Kevin Dixon - Attorney General of Ireland from 1942 - 1946

• William FitzGerald (Irish judge) - former Chief Justice of Ireland

• Adrian Hardiman – Supreme Court Judge

• John Hedigan – High Court Judge

• Michael Joseph Hogan - Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong for 14 years

• Séamus Woulfe – barrister; Attorney General of Ireland since June 2017

Irish Language

• Tomás de Bhaldraithe – lexicographer

• Lambert McKenna – lexicographer, editor, educationist, and former principal of Belvedere College

Science and Academia

• Myles Dillon – Celticist, President of the Royal Irish Academy

• Garret A. FitzGerald – Professor of Medicine and Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

• Fergus O'Rourke – zoologist

• Frank Winder – biochemist, Vice-President of the Royal Irish Academy

• Desmond Fennell - writer, cultural philosopher and linguist

• Adrian Hill - Hill is a leader in the field of malaria vaccine development and was a co-leader of the research team which produced the Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine

Religion

• Cardinal Desmond Connell – Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland

• Archbishop Dermot Ryan – Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland

• Malachi Martin – priest, author

• Robert Dermot O'Flanagan – Bishop of Juneau

• Columba Marmion (1858–1923) – Abbot of the Maredsous Abbey (Belgium)

Rugby

• Ollie Campbell – rugby union

• Andrew Clinch (1867–1937) – rugby union Irish international 10 caps, President of Irish Rugby Football Union

• Thomas Crean – rugby union and military; and his nephew Cyril Patrick Crean MBE

• Eugene Davy – rugby union and founder of the Davy Group with his brother James

• James Downey – rugby union

• Andrew Dunne – rugby union, cricket

• James Hart - current Biarritz Olympique rugby player

• Cian Healy – rugby union

• David Hawkshaw - rugby union

• Ian Keatley – rugby union

• George J Morgan – rugby union

• Karl Mullen – rugby union

• Eoin O'Malley – rugby union

• Sir Tony O'Reilly – rugby union and business as head of Heinz and Independent News and Media and former Chairman of Waterford Wedgwood

• Hugh O'Sullivan - Leinster Rugby player

• David Shanahan - Ulster Rugby player

Other Sports

• Alec O'Riordan – cricketer

• Frank Miller - cricketer

• Cathal Pendred – retired mixed martial artist in the UFC and actor

• Frank Winder – rock climbing

• Paul Corry – soccer

• Kevin Grogan - soccer

• Pat Taaffe Cheltenham Gold Cup winner on the horse Arkle and Tom Taaffe - jockey and trainer

• James McGee - tennis player

Olympians

• Noel Purcell – water polo, rugby union, international rugby union referee and Olympian with two different countries

• Peter Coghlan - Competed for Ireland in the Sydney 2000 Olympics in the 110 metres hurdles

• Cian O'Connor – Olympian (London 2012, Athens 2004 – equestrian)

• Barry Murphy – Olympian (London 2012 - swimming)

• Scott Flanigan - Competed in the 470 class at the London 2012 Olympic Games

Gaelic Sports

• Seán Boylan – former Meath GAA football manager, international rules coach and traditional medical herbalist

• Ger Brennan – Former Dublin and St.Vincents GAA player andmember of the 2003 Senior Rugby team 1st XV

• Dr. Jack McCaffrey – GAA, 2015 FOTY and Clontarf GAA player

Business and Professional

• Garrett Kelleher – construction

• Michael Scott – architect who established Scott Tallon Walker

• Sam Stephenson – architect

• Alfred Edwin Jones – architect

Broadcasting

• John Bowman – broadcaster

• Ian Dempsey – radio DJ with Today FM

• Henry Kelly – BBC and RTE television presenter, radio disc jockey and the person on whom the character Henry Sellers in Father Ted was based

• Sir Terry Wogan – BBC and RTE broadcaster

Peers

• Edward Pakenham, Lord Silchester[citation needed]

• Thomas Pakenham, 8th Earl of Longford – historian

Other

• Edward Joseph Garland - Canadian Member of Parliament for Alberta and diplomat

• Arthur Beveridge - British military officer and Military Cross Holder, Norwegian War Cross holder and honorary physician to George VI

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Crescent College Comprehensive, S.J.

Arts & Media

• Brendan Bowyer, showband singer[97]

• Richard Harris, actor[98]

• Conor McNamara, sports broadcaster[99]

• Matthew Potter (Historian), writer & historian[citation needed]

• Joseph O'Mara, 19th century opera singer[100]

• Daragh O'Malley, actor[citation needed]

• Bill Whelan, Riverdance composer[101]

• Dermot Whelan, comedian[citation needed]

• Terry Wogan, BBC radio & TV presenter[102]

Law

• Mr. Justice John L. Murray, Attorney General of Ireland & Chief Justice of Irish Supreme Court[103]

• Mr. Justice Kevin O'Higgins, judge of the High Court[104]

• His Honour Judge Thomas E. O'Donnell, judge of the Circuit Court[105]

Politics & Government

• George Clancy, Mayor of Limerick 1921[106]

• Canon John Hayes, founder of Muintir na Tíre[107]

• Pádraig MacKernan, diplomat and Ambassador to France and the United States[108]

• Tom O'Donnell, Fine Gael TD & former government minister[109]

• Francis O’Keeffe, Irish Nationalist MP at Westminster[109]

• Desmond O'Malley, founder of the Progressive Democrats & government minister[110]

• Donogh O'Malley, Fianna Fáil TD & government minister [111]

• Tim O'Malley, Progressive Democrats TD & Minister of State[109]

• Ted Russell, independent TD[112]

• David Sheehy, Irish Nationalist MP at Westminster[109]

Religious

• Alphonsus Cullinan, Bishop of Waterford and Lismore[113]

• Dr. John Harty, Archbishop of Cashel[109]

Sports

• Peter Clohessy, Ireland rugby union international[114]

• Conor Niland, Ireland Davis Cup team player [115]

• Eoin Reddan, Ireland rugby union international [116]

• Roisin Upton, Ireland women's field hockey international[117]

• David, Paul and Richard Wallace, Ireland rugby union internationals [118]

• Gordon Wood, Ireland rugby union international [109]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crescent_College

Colaiste Iognaid S.J.

Rugby union internationals

• Eric Elwood[14][15]

• Eoin Griffin[16]

• Eoin McKeon[17]

• Claire Molloy[18][19]

• Daniel Riordan[20]

Miscellaneous

• Micheál Breathnach, writer

• William Joyce, Nazi propaganda broadcaster[21]

• Proinsias Mac Aonghusa, journalist

• Frank Hugh O'Donnell

• Sean O'Rourke, RTÉ radio presenter[22]

• Harry McGee, political correspondent with The Irish Times[23]

• Seán Duignan, journalist, newsreader, political aide and writer

• Bobby Molloy, government minister[24]

• Paul O'Higgins, legal scholar[25]

• Fr.Peter Yorke - Irish American Priest, pastor of St. Peter's Church in Archdiocese of San Francisco and Labor activist

Mungret College, S.J. (Closed 1974)

• The 1st Viscount Bracken, a journalist and businessman who served as a British Conservative Cabinet minister under Prime Minister Winston Churchill during World War II. Lord Bracken mainly served as Minister of Information, based at the Senate House in Bloomsbury. He also briefly served, in 1945, as First Lord of the Admiralty.

• Gordon Wood, former rugby union footballer who represented Ireland and the British Lions during the 1950s and early 1960s.

• Frank Fahy, TD, Irish politician who served as Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann (the Lower House of the Oireachtas).

• Commandant-General Tom Barry, prominent leader of the Irish Republican Army during the Irish War of Independence.

• The Most Rev. Dr. Michael Joseph Curley, 10th Archbishop of Baltimore and first Archbishop of Washington.

• Dr. Timothy Cardinal Manning, Archbishop of Los Angeles from 1970 to 1985, and elevated to Cardinal in 1973.

• Michael Morrison SJ, teacher and british army chaplain in the second world war at the liberation of Belsen.

• The Rt Rev. Hugh Monsignor O'Flaherty, the 'Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican' during World War II. The film The Scarlet and the Black was made about the exploits of the Monsignor.

• Joseph Walshe, leading Irish diplomat from the 1920s to the 1950s and Secretary of the Department of External Affairs during the Second World War

• Leo Herbert Lehmann (1895–1950) was an Irish author, editor, and director of Christ's Mission in New York. He was an accomplished priest in the Roman Catholic Church who later in life converted to Protestantism and served as the editor of The Converted Catholic Magazine. He has authored magazine articles, books and pamphlets, presenting the programs and activities of the Roman Catholic Church.

• Dr. Oliver St John Gogarty, author (attended before transferring to Stonyhurst College)

• Fr. James Coyle, priest murdered in Alabama in 1921.

• Bishop William Turner, Bishop of Buffalo, 1919–1936.

• The Most Reverend Hugh Boyle, first Bishop of Johannesburg, 1954–76

• Dr. Vincent O'Brien, celebrated racehorse trainer and breeder.

• Bishop John Norton, Bishop of Bathurst, Australia.

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Gonzaga College, S.J.

Academia

• Anthony Clare — psychiatrist and broadcaster[18]

• Peter Clinch — Jean Monnet Professor of European Policy at University College Dublin and economic adviser to former Taoiseach Brian Cowen[19]

• George K. Miley — Professor of Astronomy, Leiden University[20]

Arts & Media

• Finghin Collins — concert pianist[21]

• Conor Deasy — lead singer with The Thrills[22]

• Paul Durcan — poet[23]

• Aidan Mathews — poet, dramatist, novelist.[24]

• Redmond Morris, 4th Baron Killanin — film producer[25]

• Andrew Scott — actor[26]

• Ronan Sheehan — novelist, short story writer, essayist, and former copyright lawyer[27]

• Hugh Tinney — concert pianist[28]

Law

• Paul Carney — Irish High Court judge[29]

• Kevin Feeney — Irish High Court judge[30]

• Charles Lysaght — lawyer and obituary writer[31]

Politics & Diplomacy

• Patrick Costello — Green Party TD[32]

• Ciarán Cuffe — Green Party MEP and former TD and Minister of State for Horticulture, Sustainable Travel, and Planning and Heritage[33]

• Jim O'Callaghan — Fianna Fail TD[34]

• Eamon Ryan — Green Party TD and Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources[35]

• Ossian Smyth — Green Party TD and Minister of State for Public Procurement and eGovernment[36]

• Peter Sutherland — EU Commissioner,[37] former Director General of the World Trade Organization, former Attorney General of Ireland, former Chairman of BP and Chairman of Goldman Sachs

Sports

• Barry Bresnihan — former Irish Rugby international, British and Irish Lions player and renowned doctor[38]

• Sam Collins — International Master of chess[39]

• Tony Ensor — Irish rugby international[40]

• Matt Healy - Connacht Rugby player and Ireland international[41]

• Osgar O'Hoisin - Irish Davis Cup Tennis Player

• Mark Dowling - Irish Tennis Player

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