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St Nathy's College
St Nathy’s College is a secondary school based in Ballaghaderreen, Roscommon. It is the diocesan college for the Diocese of Achonry. It is one of the oldest secondary schools in Ireland, having been founded in 1810. The School was located from 1893-96 in Edmundstown House, the former residence of the Bishop. The Diocese purchased Ballaghaderreen Military Barracks from the War Office, and the School moved there in 1896. In 1995 the school ceased to be a boarding school. St. Nathys amalgamated with St. Josephs Convent (Sisters of Charity) becoming a co-educational school, it also amalgamated with the local Ballaghaderreen VEC school 2010 saw the celebration of 200 years of the college, ''St Nathy’s 1810 to 2010, Reflections and Memories of Past Pupils'', edited by Fr. Leo Henry, was published as part of the celebrations. Alumni * Most Rev. Thomas Flynn, Bishop of Achonry and a former teacher at the school * Most Rev. Dr. Laurence Gillooly CM, Bishop of Elphin * Claire Kerra ...
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Ballaghaderreen
Ballaghaderreen () is a town in County Roscommon, Ireland. It was part of County Mayo prior to 1898. It is located just off the N5 National primary road. The population was 1,808 in the 2016 census. History As of 1837, the town was recorded as having 1147 inhabitants in about 200 houses and as "rising in importance" as a post-town, being on the (then) new mail coach road from Ballina to Longford. As of the mid-19th century, markets were held on Fridays, with seven fairs held throughout the year. A court-house, market house and an infantry barracks to accommodate 94 persons had all been established by that time. In 1860, Ballaghaderreen Cathedral was dedicated as the cathedral for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Achonry. In March 2017, Ballaghaderreen became an Emergency Reception and Orientation Centre (EROC) for hundreds of refugees from the Syrian Civil War. In April 2018, the community was honoured with a People of the Year Award for welcoming the refugees into the ...
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Patsy McGarry
Patsy McGarry is the Religious Affairs correspondent with ''The Irish Times''. He succeeded Andy Pollak as editor in the mid-1990s. He also is the commissioning editor for articles which are published in the paper's '' Rite and Reason'' column every Monday. McGarry also writes occasionally on social issues for the newspaper. He has worked for Independent Newspapers, ''The Irish Press'' group, '' Magill'' magazine, and freelanced briefly for Raidió Teilifís Éireann. Career A native of Ballaghaderreen, County Roscommon, he is a graduate of University College Galway, and was auditor of the College's Literary and Debating Society in 1974-1975. In 1989 he set up the first independent radio newsroom in the Republic at Capital Radio (now FM104) in Dublin, having previously worked for four years on the pirate station Sunshine Radio in the city. He was theatre critic at ''The Irish Press'' from 1990 until 1995. He received a national media award for comment and analysis in 1992 for ...
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1810 Establishments In Ireland
Year 181 ( CLXXXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Aurelius and Burrus (or, less frequently, year 934 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 181 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Imperator Lucius Aurelius Commodus and Lucius Antistius Burrus become Roman Consuls. * The Antonine Wall is overrun by the Picts in Britannia (approximate date). Oceania * The volcano associated with Lake Taupō in New Zealand erupts, one of the largest on Earth in the last 5,000 years. The effects of this eruption are seen as far away as Rome and China. Births * April 2 – Xian of Han, Chinese emperor (d. 234) * Zhuge Liang, Chinese chancellor and regent (d. 234) Deaths * Aelius Aristides, Greek orator and wr ...
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Catholic Secondary Schools In The Republic Of Ireland
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a prominent role in the history and development of Western civilization.O'Collins, p. v (preface). The church consists of 24 ''sui iuris'' churches, including the Latin Church and 23 Eastern Catholic Churches, which comprise almost 3,500 dioceses and eparchies located around the world. The pope, who is the bishop of Rome, is the chief pastor of the church. The bishopric of Rome, known as the Holy See, is the central governing authority of the church. The administrative body of the Holy See, the Roman Curia, has its principal offices in Vatican City, a small enclave of the Italian city of Rome, of which the pope is head of state. The core beliefs of Catholicism are found in the Nicene Creed. The Catholic Church teaches that it is the one, ...
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Educational Institutions Established In 1810
Education is a purposeful activity directed at achieving certain aims, such as transmitting knowledge or fostering skills and character traits. These aims may include the development of understanding, rationality, kindness, and honesty. Various researchers emphasize the role of critical thinking in order to distinguish education from indoctrination. Some theorists require that education results in an improvement of the student while others prefer a value-neutral definition of the term. In a slightly different sense, education may also refer, not to the process, but to the product of this process: the mental states and dispositions possessed by educated people. Education originated as the transmission of cultural heritage from one generation to the next. Today, educational goals increasingly encompass new ideas such as the liberation of learners, skills needed for modern society, empathy, and complex vocational skills. Types of education are commonly divided into formal ...
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William O'Dwyer
William O'Dwyer (July 11, 1890November 24, 1964) was an Irish-American politician and diplomat who served as the 100th Mayor of New York City, holding that office from 1946 to 1950. Life and career O'Dwyer was born in Bohola, County Mayo, Ireland and studied at St. Nathys College, Ballaghaderreen, County Roscommon. In 1907, O'Dwyer began to study for the priesthood at the Pontifical University of Salamanca, a Jesuit seminary in Spain, where he became fluent in Spanish. He later decided not to join the clergy, and emigrated to the United States in 1910. He sailed to New York as a steerage passenger on board the liner ''Philadelphia'' and was inspected at Ellis Island on June 27, 1910. He first worked as a laborer, then as a New York City police officer, while studying law at night at Fordham University Law School. He received his degree in 1923 and then built up a successful practice before serving as a Kings County (Brooklyn) Court judge. He won election as the Kings County ...
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Ted Nealon
Edward Nealon (24 November 1929 – 28 January 2014) was an Irish Fine Gael politician and journalist. Biography He was born at Aclare, County Sligo in 1929, the younger of two sons of Ted and Una Nealon. Hie mother died when Ted was two years old and the boys were raised by their father. He attended St Nathy's College, Ballaghaderreen, County Mayo. He was elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fine Gael Teachta Dála (TD) for Sligo–Leitrim (Dáil constituency), Sligo–Leitrim at the 1981 Irish general election, 1981 general election, and was re-elected at each subsequent general election until he retired from politics at the 1997 Irish general election, 1997 general election. Previously he had stood for election in 1977 Irish general election, 1977 at Dublin Clontarf (Dáil constituency), Dublin Clontarf, but failed to be elected. He served as Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture from 1981 to 19 ...
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Thomas McGettrick
Thomas McGettrick SPS, was an Irish born missionary priest, who served as a Bishop in Nigeria. McGettrick was born on 22 December 1905 at Killavil, Emlegh (Ballymote), Co. Sligo. He was educated at St Nathy's College in Ballaghaderreen, the diocesan college for the diocese of Achonry, he did his philosophical and theological studies at St. Patrick's College, Maynooth and was ordained in Maynooth on 22 June 1930 ordained a priest for Achonry diocese. He was a founding member of the Saint Patrick's Society for the Foreign Missions, (Kiltegan Fathers), which he entered in 1932, in response to appeals for priests for the missions. Fr. McGettrick volunteered for mission and was sent to Nigeria as, replacing Fr. Patrick Whitney (the societies founder) as Prefect Apostolic of Ogoja in 1939. He was appointed Bishop of Ogoja, Nigeria in 1955 serving until 1973 when the diocese was split and he was appointed the first Roman Catholic Diocese of Abakaliki, Bishop of Abakaliki serving until 1 ...
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Trinity College Dublin
, name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin , motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin) , motto_lang = la , motto_English = It will last into endless future times , founder = Queen Elizabeth I , established = , named_for = Trinity, The Holy Trinity.The Trinity was the patron of The Dublin Guild Merchant, primary instigators of the foundation of the University, the arms of which guild are also similar to those of the College. , previous_names = , status = , architect = , architectural_style =Neoclassical architecture , colours = , gender = , sister_colleges = St. John's College, CambridgeOriel College, Oxford , freshman_dorm = , head_label = , head = , master = , vice_head_label = , vice_head = , warden ...
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County Roscommon
"Steadfast Irish heart" , image_map = Island of Ireland location map Roscommon.svg , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Ireland , subdivision_type1 = Province , subdivision_name1 = Connacht , subdivision_type2 = Regions of Ireland, Region , subdivision_name2 = Northern and Western Region, Northern and Western , seat_type = County town , seat = Roscommon , leader_title = Local government in the Republic of Ireland, Local authority , leader_name = Roscommon County Council, County Council , leader_title2 = Dáil constituencies , leader_title3 = European Parliament constituencies in the Republic of Ireland, EP constituency , leader_name2 = Roscommon–Galway (Dáil constituency), Roscommon–Galway Sligo–Leitrim (Dáil constituency), Sligo–Leitrim , leader_name3 = Midlands–North-West (European Parliament constituency), Midlands–North-West , ...
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Thomas Noel Mitchell
Thomas Noel Mitchell is an Irish academic and university administrator who served as 42nd provost (president) of Trinity College Dublin from 1991 to 2001. Biography Mitchell, a native of Mayo, Ireland, was born in Castlebar on 7 December 1939 to Patrick Mitchell and Margaret Mitchell. He graduated with first class honours with a B.A. and M.A. in Latin and Greek from University College Galway. He earned a doctorate from Cornell University and a Litt.D. from Trinity College Dublin. He started his academic career as instructor at Cornell University from 1965 to 1966. He joined the faculty of Swarthmore College in 1966, first as assistant professor (1966-1973), then associate professor (1973-1978), and full professor (1978-1979). He returned to the Republic of Ireland as Professor of Latin at Trinity College Dublin in 1979. His work on Cicero and Roman Republicanism has won him wide acclaim and has been described as a monument in the field. He served as Director of Hibernia Colle ...
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Roscommon–Galway (Dáil Constituency)
Roscommon–Galway is a parliamentary constituency in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas. It first returned 3 members ( Teachtaí Dála, commonly known as TDs) in the 2016 general election. The method of election is proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV). History and boundaries The constituency was established by the Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2013 and first used at the 2016 election. The Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2017 defines the constituency as: TDs Elections 2020 general election 2016 general election See also *Dáil constituencies *Elections in the Republic of Ireland *Politics of the Republic of Ireland *List of Dáil by-elections *List of political parties in the Republic of Ireland There are a number of political parties in Ireland, and coalition governments are common. The two historically largest part ...
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