Belvedere College
S.J. (sometimes St Francis Xavier's College) is a
voluntary secondary school
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for boys in
Dublin
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, Ireland. The school has numerous alumni in the arts, politics, sports, science, and business.
History
Belvedere owes its origins to the efforts of
John Austin John Austin may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* John P. Austin (1906–1997), American set decorator
* Johnny Austin (1910–1983), American musician
* John Austin (author) (fl. 1940s), British novelist
Military
* John Austin (soldier) (180 ...
who opened primary and secondary schools off
Fishamble Street
Fishamble Street (; ) is a street in Dublin, Ireland within the old city walls.
Location
The street joins Wood Quay at the Fish Slip near Fyan's Castle. It originally ran from Castle Street to Essex Quay until the creation of Lord Edward Stre ...
in 1750. The
Society of Jesus
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has been active in the area around Hardwicke Street since 1790. They founded
St Francis Xavier's College in the disused Poor Clare convent on Hardwicke Street with nine students in 1832, three years after
Catholic emancipation
Catholic emancipation or Catholic relief was a process in the kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland, and later the combined United Kingdom in the late 18th century and early 19th century, that involved reducing and removing many of the restricti ...
. In 1841, the Jesuits purchased
Belvedere House on neighbouring Great Denmark Street, which gave the school its name.
George Augustus Rochfort (1738–1814), who became the second
Earl of Belvedere in 1774, built Belvedere House, whose interior decoration was carried out by
Michael Stapleton
Michael Stapleton (born Dublin, Ireland, in 1747, died 8 August 1801, in Dublin) is regarded as having been the most skilled stuccodore working in the neoclassical or "Adam" style that dominated Dublin interior decoration in the final decades of ...
, a leading stucco craftsman of his time.
Belvedere was caught up in the events of the
1916 Rising, when the British military opened fire at the Jesuit residence. The Jesuits at Belvedere and the neighbouring Gardiner Street Community helped the wounded and distributed food across the locality.
In February 2012 Chinese
Politburo
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Names
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member and future
Paramount leader
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Xi Jinping
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visited the college as part of his visit to Ireland for a special reception in the O'Reilly theatre. An annual exchange with a Jesuit school in Hong Kong was the catalyst for this visit.
School museum
A school museum and archive were opened in 2002 by former teacher Oliver Murphy, dedicated to the history of the institution and its past pupils.
Education
Belvedere offers the Irish
Junior Certificate
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and
Leaving Certificate curricula.
Classics
The school still offers Latin as both a Junior and Leaving Certificate subject and offers Ancient Greek as a Junior and Leaving Certificate subject when there is sufficient demand. Classical Studies is also offered at Leaving Certificate level.
Science
Garret A. FitzGerald, an Old Belvederian and senior faculty member at the
University of Pennsylvania
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, has instituted an annual five-week scholarship for two students who excel in Transition Year science.
Facilities
Belvedere has a 25m 5 lane indoor swimming pool, gym, restaurant and
refectory
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, music suite, learning resource centre, museum, chapel and oratory, 3 hard tennis courts (Cabra Sports Ground), 1 astroturf (Distillery Road) and 5 grass rugby pitches (Cabra Sports Ground), a cricket pitch (Cabra Sports Ground), 1 grass soccer pitch (Cabra Sports Ground), 1 astro 7-a-side football pitch on top of the O'Reilly Theatre and a 60m 8 lane roof-top running track (Kerr Wing). The school also has a professional standard 590-seat theatre with a motorised stage and retractable seating, the O'Reilly Theatre, which is used to stage school plays and musicals but has also been used by RTÉ, TV3 and an assortment of dramatic organisations and hosted live audience TV shows such as
The Panel and
Tonight with Vincent Browne
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.
The school also has three computer labs, cabled and wireless networking to every classroom, and other IT features including dedicated networks for the library and certain functions.
In 2004, Belvedere opened the Dargan Moloney Science and Technology Block, which has state-of-the-art laboratories, lecture theatres and IT hubs.
Charitable activities
The school has a wide range of
charitable
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Etymology
The word ''charity'' or ...
activities. Some students travel with the annual Dublin Diocesan, Meath Diocesan and Oblate Pilgrimages to
Lourdes
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, France, to assist the elderly and the disabled. Belvedere's
St Vincent de Paul Society
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Innumerable Catholic parishes have ...
is one of the largest among secondary schools in Ireland, organising activities such as old-folks events and a weekly soup run in inner city Dublin. Beginning in 1981, some students have undertaken a charity walk from Dublin to
Galway
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each summer to raise funds for Irish Guide Dogs for the Blind, St Francis Hospice, and The
Temple Street Children's University Hospital
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, located very near the school. The "block-pull", as it is known, has raised over €70,000 in a single event.
An annual charitable fundraising event held by the college is the "Belvedere Sleep-Out", which takes place from 22 to 24 December each year. Students "go homeless" on Dublin's
O'Connell Street
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for three days and two nights. The Sleep-Out is run primarily by students from the college, with the assistance of a number of teachers and past pupils, to raise funds for
Focus Ireland
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, The Home Again Society, and Father Peter McVerry's Society for homeless boys. The students fast for 24 hours during the Sleep-Out. The culmination is
Christmas Eve
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midnight mass in the college chapel. In 2015, the event raised over
€
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189,000 over the Christmas period for the charities. This record was broken in 2016, when the event raised €225,021 for the charities.
Sports
Belvedere has the most Royal College of Science Cup (Overall best school in track and field) wins at the Irish Schools Athletics Championships. Belvedere won 15 consecutive Royal College of Science Cup awards between 1999 and 2014.
Field sports are a traditional strength of the school. In October 2013 Belvedere held the all-Ireland schools senior track and field trophy, having won the title in the previous seven years. It also held numerous other titles at provincial levels.
Belvedere has won 35 Leinster Senior Cricket Schools Cup titles, as of 2016.
Belvedere, sometimes known as Belvo,
[ has a strong ]rugby union
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football tradition, being one of the traditional "Big Three", along with Blackrock College
Blackrock College ( ga, Coláiste na Carraige Duibhe) is a voluntary secondary school, voluntary day school, day and boarding school, boarding Catholicism, Catholic secondary school for boys aged 13–18, in Williamstown, Blackrock, Dublin, Bl ...
and Terenure College
Terenure College is a Carmelite-run secondary school located in the suburb of Terenure, Dublin, Ireland. The school was founded in 1860 and had an associated primary school until 2017. It is one of the "big six" Leinster Schools Rugby-playin ...
. In 2005, for the first time in the school's history, it won both the Leinster Junior Cup and the Leinster Schools Senior Cup
The Leinster Schools Senior Challenge Cup is the premier rugby union competition for secondary schools affiliated to the Leinster Branch of the IRFU. First held in 1887, the competition celebrated its 120th anniversary in 2007.
Attendances are h ...
. In 2016 Belvedere, with eleven titles, stood second in the Leinster Senior Cup roll of honour, behind Blackrock College
Blackrock College ( ga, Coláiste na Carraige Duibhe) is a voluntary secondary school, voluntary day school, day and boarding school, boarding Catholicism, Catholic secondary school for boys aged 13–18, in Williamstown, Blackrock, Dublin, Bl ...
(68). A further success came on 17 March 2017, when Belvedere beat Blackrock College 10–3 at the RDS.
Drama
Drama productions form an integral part of Belvedere's year. Each academic year, there are four performances: a Junior Musical, a Senior Musical, a Drama Society production, and a First Year Play. Productions have included ''Les Misérables
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In the English-speaking world, the novel is usually referred to by its original ...
'' (school edition) in 2004, and the stage adaptation of Philip Pullman
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's ''His Dark Materials
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'' in 2007. Other productions of note include ''Bugsy Malone
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'', ''The Adventures of Roderick Random
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'', ''David Copperfield
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'', ''Aladdin
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'', ''Jesus Christ Superstar
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'', '' A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum'', ''The Wind in the Willows
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'', ''Prince Caspian
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'' and ''The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
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'', ''Treasure Island
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'', ''The Lord of the Rings
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'', ''Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
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'', ''The Addams Family
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'', ''West Side Story
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Inspired by William Shakespeare's play ''Romeo and Juliet'', the story is set in the mid-1 ...
''and ''The Pirates of Penzance
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''.
In 2016, an original play entitled ''Children of the Rising'' was staged at the school. The play was written by a member of staff and was nominated for a Bord Gáis Energy Student Theatre Award for Best Overall Play. The play was based on the book ''Children of The Rising'' by Joe Duffy
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.
Other activities
The school has debating societies in the English, Irish, Spanish, German, and French languages. Belvedere has won the all-Ireland schools debating competition (2005 among other years), the Denny Leinster Schools Senior Debating Championship in 2010, the L&H society Leinster Junior debating competition, and also the Alliance Française
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debating championship and Leinster Irish debating final.
Belvedere was successful in the last series of ''Blackboard Jungle'', a popular television programme on RTÉ
(RTÉ) (; Irish language, Irish for "Radio & Television of Ireland") is the Public broadcaster, national broadcaster of Republic of Ireland, Ireland headquartered in Dublin. It both produces and broadcasts programmes on RTÉ Television, telev ...
.
The school's longstanding Concert Choir
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hosts the Annual Christmas Carol Service in December, and the Annual Musical Evening in May. The choir have undertaken recordings in RTÉ
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, and has been successful at both the Feis Ceoil
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and the Wesley Feis. The college orchestra
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There are typically four main sections of instruments:
* bowed string instruments, such as the violin, viola, c ...
has won events at both the Wesley Feis and the Feis Ceoil
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.
The school has an active urban farm, growing vegetables and housing bees. The farm won the Global High Schools Europe Category at the Zayed Future Energy Prize
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in 2017.
Culture of Belvedere
Belvedere College is run by the Jesuit
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order. Most of the school's teaching staff are lay-persons, although a number of Jesuit priests and brothers assist with administration and chaplaincy.
The school motto is ''Per Vias Rectas'' – "By Straight Paths" – and the college aspires to produce "Men for Others". Students often write "AMDG" for '' Ad maiorem Dei gloriam'', "For the greater glory of God", the motto of the Society of Jesus
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, on the top left of pages of their copybooks. They formerly also wrote "LDSetBVM" or ''Laus Deo Semper et Beatae Virgini Mariae'' ("Praise to God forever and to the Blessed Virgin Mary") on the bottom right of the same page.
The students are assigned to one of six lines or houses, mainly named after Jesuits who were either famous or had an association with Belvedere: Loyola, Xavier, Aylmer
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* Edward Aylmer, Welsh MP
* Edward Aylmer (cricketer), first-class cricketer and Royal Navy officer
* Felix Aylmer, English stage actor
* Sir Fenton Aylmer, 13th Baronet, British Arm ...
, Kenney, Finlay
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Given name Finlay
* Finlay Mickel, Scottish skier
*Finlay Currie (1878–1968), Scottish actor
* Finlay Calder, Scottish rugby pl ...
and Scully (previously named Dempsey after George Dempsey). Years are named after the progression in the Jesuit ''Ratio Studiorum
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'': Elements, Rudiments, Grammar, Syntax, Poetry, and Rhetoric. Each form except Rhetoric has a captain and vice-captain.
The school's yearbook is ''The Belvederian''. The term "Belvederian" is also sometimes used to refer to current students and "Old Belvederian" (OB) for alumni. Old Belvederians normally refer to their graduation by using "OB" followed by their final year in the college, for example, "OB 1984".
Belvedere College is the backdrop for some of James Joyce
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's novel ''A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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''. It is a semi-autobiographical piece of work and the teacher, Mr Tate, was based on Joyce's own English teacher, George Dempsey. In the book Joyce mentions his involvement in the College Opera which continues today.[''Critical companion to James Joyce: a literary reference to his life and work'', by A. Nicholas Fargnoli and Michael Patrick Gillespie. ] In 1884, James Aloysius Cullen was appointed spiritual father at Belvedere, a position he retained for twenty years while also engaged in other ministry. Cullen was founder and director of the Sodality of Our Lady at the college, which duties included counselling students. In 1896, James Joyce
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was elected Student Prefect of the Society. According to Neil R. Davison, the sermons in Chapter III of ''A Portrait of the Artist'' are modeled on those given by Cullen during a retreat held in 1897.
Notable past pupils
Alumni and teachers at Belvedere played major roles in modern Irish literature (James Joyce, Austin Clarke, the foundation of Ireland's National Theatre), the standardisation of the Irish language (de Bhaldraithe), as well as the Irish independence movement – both the 1916 Rising (Joseph Mary Plunkett, Éamon de Valera) and the Irish War of Independence (Éamon de Valera, Cathal Brugha, Kevin Barry). The school's notable alumni and former faculty include two Taoisigh (Irish Prime Minister), one Ceann Comhairle (Speaker of the Lower House of the Irish Parliament), several cabinet ministers
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, one Blessed
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* The state of having received a blessing
* Blessed, a title assigned by the Roman Catholic Church to someone who has been beatified
Film and television
* ''Blessed'' (2004 film), a 2004 motion picture about a supernatural ...
, one Cardinal
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, one Archbishop
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, one signatory of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic
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, two Supreme Court Justices
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, one Olympic medal
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list, thirty Irish international rugby players and numerous notable figures in the world of the arts, academia and business.
A list of selected notable past pupils is outlined below.
The arts
* Thomas Bodkin
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Bodkin was Director of the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin from 1927 to 1935 and founding Director of the ...
– Director of the National Gallery of Ireland (1927–35)
* Francis Browne
Francis Patrick Mary Browne, (3 January 1880 – 7 July 1960) was a distinguished Irish Jesuit and a prolific photographer. His best known photographs are those of the RMS ''Titanic'' and its passengers and crew taken shortly before its sin ...
– photographer
* Austin Clarke – poet
* Harry Clarke
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His work was influenced by both the Art Nouveau an ...
– artist
* Tim Pat Coogan – historian and journalist
* Denis Devlin
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Early life and ...
– poet
* Owen Dudley Edwards
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He is the son of Professor Robert Dudley Edwards and brother to the Irish writer, ...
– historian and literary expert on Oscar Wilde
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, Arthur Conan Doyle
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and P.G. Wodehouse
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* Patrick Duggan – actor
* William Fay
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– co-founder of the Abbey Theatre
* Jimmy Glover
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– composer
* Mark Greaney
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and Fergal Matthews
JJ72 were an alternative rock band from Dublin, Ireland. After forming in 1996, they signed to Lakota Records in 1999 and released two albums before splitting in 2006.
History
Formation and early years
The band was formed in 1996 by lead singer ...
– members of indie rock band JJ72
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History
Formation and early years
The band was formed in 1996 by lead singer ...
* James Joyce
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– writer[James Joyce profile](_blank)
* Donagh MacDonagh
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Personal life
MacDonagh was born in Dublin on St Cecilia's Day in 1912. He was still a young child when his father Th ...
– poet, playwright, broadcaster, folklorist, and district justice
* Hugh Maguire – violinist
* John O'Conor
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Early career
Born in Dublin, O'Conor attended Belvedere College in that city. During his early Dublin studies, his ...
– pianist and Beethoven master
* Jimmy O'Dea
James Augustine O'Dea (26 April 1899 – 7 January 1965) was an Irish actor and comedian.
Life
Jimmy O'Dea was born at 11 Lower Bridge Street, Dublin, to James O'Dea, an ironmonger, and Martha O'Gorman, who kept a small toy shop. He was one ...
– actor
* Liam O'Flaherty
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– writer
* Conal O'Riordan – writer
* Jack Reynor
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- actor
* Eoin Macken
Eoin Christopher Macken (born 21 February 1983) is an Irish actor, director, and model.
Macken has modelled for Abercrombie and Fitch, Ralph Lauren, and GQ, and has appeared in films such as ''Resident Evil'', ''Close, Killing Jesus'', and '' ...
- model and actor
* Rejjie Snow
Alexander Anyaegbunam better known by his stage name Rejjie Snow, is an Irish rapper and songwriter from Drumcondra, Dublin.
Early life
RejjieSnow was born Alexander Anyaegbunam in Dublin, Ireland, to a Nigerian father and an Irish-Jamaican mot ...
– rapper
* Mervyn Wall
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– writer
* Leo Whelan
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Born in Dublin and educated at Belvedere College and the Metropolita ...
- painter
Irish history, politics
* Kevin Barry
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– Irish republican (did not graduate)
* Cathal Brugha
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– Irish republican (did not graduate)
* Richard Bruton
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– Fine Gael
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Teachta Dála
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(TD) Deputy Leader of Fine Gael & Government Minister
* Jack Chambers – Fianna Fáil
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Teachta Dála
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(TD)
* Garret FitzGerald – Fine Gael
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Taoiseach
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former Leader of Fine Gael
* Brothers Brian Lenihan and Conor Lenihan
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He was from 2011 to ...
– Fianna Fáil
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Teachtaà Dála (TD)
* William Martin Murphy
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– Member of Parliament
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(MP)
* Cian O'Callaghan
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- member of the Social Democrats
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(TD) for Dublin Bay North
* Chris O'Malley
Christopher Gerard O'Malley (born 9 June 1959) is a former Irish Fine Gael politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Dublin constituency from 1986 to 1989.
In January 1986, he was nominated to the European Parli ...
– Fine Gael
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Member of European Parliament
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(MEP), 1986–89
* Joseph Mary Plunkett
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– rebel; signatory of 1916 Proclamation; executed a month later
* James McNeill
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Early life
One of five children born to Archibald Mc ...
- 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
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from 1942 - 1946
* William FitzGerald (Irish judge)
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He was born in Cork in 1906, an ...
- former Chief Justice of Ireland
* Adrian Hardiman
Adrian Hardiman (21 May 1951 – 7 March 2016) was an Irish judge who served as a Judge of the Supreme Court from 2000 to 2016.
Early life and education
Adrian Hardiman was born on 21 May 1951, in Coolock, Dublin. His father was a teacher and Pr ...
– Supreme Court Judge
* John Hedigan – High Court Judge
* Michael Joseph Hogan
Sir Michael Joseph Patrick Hogan, (15 March 1908 – 27 September 1986) was an Irish lawyer and judge in the British Empire. He served as Chief Justice of Hong Kong for 14 years.
Early life
Hogan was born on 15 March 1908 in Dublin, Ireland. ...
- Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong
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Supreme Court of Hong Kong
The Supreme Court of Hong ...
for 14 years
* Séamus Woulfe
Séamus Philip Woulfe (born 1962) is an Irish judge and lawyer who has served as a Judge of the Supreme Court of Ireland since July 2020. He previously served as Attorney General of Ireland from 2017 to 2020. Prior to holding public office, he w ...
– barrister
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; Attorney General of Ireland
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since June 2017
Irish language
* Tomás de Bhaldraithe – lexicographer
* Lambert McKenna
Lambert McKenna S.J. ( ga, An tAthair Lámhbheartach Mac Cionnaith) (16 July 1870 – 27 December 1956) was a Jesuit priest and writer.
He was born Andrew Joseph Lambert McKenna in Clontarf, and studied in Europe. He collected and edited rel ...
– lexicographer, editor, educationist, and former principal of Belvedere College
Science and academia
* John Gabriel Byrne
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- first professor of computer science in Trinity College Dublin
* Myles Dillon
Myles Patrick Dillon (11 April 1900 – 18 June 1972) was an Irish scholar whose primary interests were comparative philology, Celtic studies, and Sanskrit.
Life
Myles Dillon was born in Dublin; he was one of six children of John Dillon and h ...
– Celticist, President of the Royal Irish Academy
* Desmond Fennell
Desmond Carolan Fennell (29 June 1929 – 16 July 2021) was an Irish writer, essayist, cultural philosopher and linguist. Throughout his career, Fennell repeatedly departed from prevailing norms. In the 1950s and early 1960s, with his extensiv ...
- writer, cultural philosopher and linguist
* Garret A. FitzGerald – Professor of Medicine and Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
* Fergus O'Rourke
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– zoologist
* Frank Winder
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Scientific car ...
– biochemist, vice-president of the Royal Irish Academy
Religion
* Cardinal
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Animals
* Cardinal (bird) or Cardinalidae, a family of North and South American birds
**''Cardinalis'', genus of cardinal in the family Cardinalidae
**''Cardinalis cardinalis'', or northern cardinal, the ...
Desmond Connell
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– Archbishop of Dublin
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and Primate of Ireland
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* Archbishop
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Dermot Ryan
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Early life and education
Born Dermot Joseph Ryan in 1924, to Andrew Ryan a medical doctor and Therese nee McKenna, in ...
– Archbishop of Dublin
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and Primate of Ireland
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* Malachi Martin – priest, author
* Robert Dermot O'Flanagan
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Biography
Early life
Robert O'F ...
– Bishop of Juneau
* Columba Marmion
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(1858–1923) – Abbot of the Maredsous Abbey
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The abbey was founded as a priory on 15 No ...
(Belgium
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)
Rugby
* Ollie Campbell
Seamus Oliver Campbell (born 5 March 1954) is an Irish former rugby union player. He played flyhalf for Ireland national rugby union team, Ireland from 1976 to 1984. He is most well known for his role in orchestrating Ireland's Triple Crown vict ...
– rugby union
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* (1867–1937) – rugby union Irish international 10 caps, President of Irish Rugby Football Union
* Thomas Crean
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– rugby union and military; and his nephew Cyril Patrick Crean
* Eugene Davy
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Davy was born into an affluent family in County Dublin on 26 July 1904.http://sv1.sotic.net/scrum/players.php?player=23770&includeref=dyn ...
– rugby union and founder of the Davy Group
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with his brother James
* James Downey – rugby union
* Andrew Dunne
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– rugby union, cricket
* James Hart - current Biarritz Olympique
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rugby player
* Cian Healy
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– rugby union
* David Hawkshaw - rugby union
* Ian Keatley
Ian James T. Keatley (born 1 April 1987) is an Irish rugby union player. He plays primarily as a fly-half, but can also play as a centre or fullback.
Early life
Keatley was born in Dublin, where he was educated at Belvedere College and Unive ...
– rugby union
* George J Morgan – rugby union
* Karl Mullen
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Mulle ...
– rugby union
* Eoin O'Malley – rugby union
* Sir Tony O'Reilly
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– rugby union and business as head of Heinz
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and Independent News and Media
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and former Chairman of Waterford Wedgwood
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* Hugh O'Sullivan - current Leinster Rugby
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player
* David Shanahan - Current Ulster Rugby
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The team represents the IRFU Ulster Branch, which is one of ...
player
Other sports
* Alec O'Riordan – cricketer
* Frank Miller
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- cricketer
* Cathal Pendred
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Background
Pendred was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Irish immigrant ...
– retired mixed martial artist
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in the UFC
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and actor
* Frank Winder
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Scientific car ...
– rock climbing
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* Paul Corry – soccer
* Kevin Grogan - soccer
* Pat Taaffe
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Cheltenham Gold Cup winner on the horse Arkle and Tom Taaffe
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He began training in the 1994/95 jumps season, having had a successful career as a professional jump jockey ...
- jockey and trainer
* James McGee - tennis player
Olympians
* Noel Purcell – water polo
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, rugby union, international rugby union referee and Olympian separately with Great Britain at Antwerp 1920 and with Ireland at Paris 1924.
* Peter Coghlan - Competed for Ireland in the Sydney 2000
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Olympics in the 110 metres hurdles
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* Cian O'Connor
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– Olympian (London 2012
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, Athens 2004 – equestrian
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Horseback riding (or Riding in British English)
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* Equestrian sports
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)
* Barry Murphy – Olympian (London 2012
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- swimming)
* Scott Flanigan - Competed in the 470 class at the London 2012 Olympic Games
Gaelic sports
* Seán Boylan
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– former Meath GAA
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football manager, international rules
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coach and traditional medical herbalist
* Ger Brennan – Former Dublin and St.Vincents GAA player and member of the 2003 Senior Rugby team 1st XV
* Dr. Jack McCaffrey
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Early and personal life
His father Noel also represented Dublin in football. McCaffrey attended Belvedere College private school and studied medicine at Univ ...
– GAA, 2015 FOTY and Clontarf GAA
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Notable players
* Chris Barrett
*Jack McCaffrey
* Noel McCaffrey
*Jim Ronayne
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player
Business and professional
* Garrett Kelleher – construction
* Michael Scott – architect who established Scott Tallon Walker
* Sam Stephenson
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– architect who established Stephenson, Gibney & Associates
* Alfred Edwin Jones – architect
Broadcasting
* John Bowman – broadcaster
* Ian Dempsey
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– radio DJ with Today FM
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(Did not graduate)
* Henry Kelly – BBC and RTE television presenter, radio disc jockey and the person on whom the character Henry Sellers in Father Ted
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was based
* Sir Terry Wogan
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– BBC and RTE broadcaster
* Anton Savage – TV and Radio Host and PR advisor
Peers
* Edward Pakenham, Lord Silchester
* Thomas Pakenham, 8th Earl of Longford – historian
Other
* Edward Joseph Garland
Edward Joseph Garland (March 16, 1887 – December 19, 1974) was a farmer, diplomat and a Canadian federal politician. He was born in Dublin, Ireland and attended Belvedere College and Trinity College Dublin.
Political career
Garland, an act ...
- Canadian Member of Parliament
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for Alberta and diplomat
* :no:Arthur Joseph Beveridge, Arthur Beveridge - British military officer and Military Cross Holder, War Cross (Norway), Norwegian War Cross holder and honorary physician to George VI
* William Russell Grace - first Roman Catholic Mayor of New York City and founder of W. R. Grace and Company
Notable faculty
*
* George Dempsey – model for Mr. Tate in ''Joyce's Portrait of an Artist'' and after whom a stream class "Dempsey" was named for a number of years
* Phil Conway - Former PE teacher who competed for Ireland at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich in the Shot Put
* Michael Morrison (priest), Michael Morrison - photographer at the liberation of Bergen Belsen concentration camp
* Peter McVerry - homelessness campaigner in Dublin
* John Hennig - worked as a teacher for a period during the 1940s
See also
* List of Jesuit schools
* List of Jesuit sites#Ireland, List of Jesuit sites in Ireland
* List of alumni of Jesuit educational institutions
References
External links
Belvedere College website
Belvedere College Past Pupils Union website
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Boys' schools in the Republic of Ireland
Secondary schools in Dublin (city)
Private schools in the Republic of Ireland
Jesuit secondary schools in Ireland
Educational institutions established in 1832