The

Dominican Order The Order of Preachers ( la, Ordo Praedicatorum) abbreviated OP, also known as the Dominicans, is a Catholic mendicant order of Pontifical Right for men founded in Toulouse, France, by the Spanish priest, saint and mystic Dominic of Cal ...

(''Order of Preachers'') has been present in Ireland since 1224 when the first foundation was established in Dublin, a monastic settlement north of the River Liffey, where the Four Courts is located today. This was quickly followed by

Drogheda Drogheda ( , ; , meaning "bridge at the ford") is an industrial and port town in County Louth on the east coast of Ireland, north of Dublin. It is located on the Dublin–Belfast corridor on the east coast of Ireland, mostly in County Louth ...

(also 1224),

Kilkenny Kilkenny (). is a city in County Kilkenny, Ireland. It is located in the South-East Region and in the province of Leinster. It is built on both banks of the River Nore. The 2016 census gave the total population of Kilkenny as 26,512. Kilken ...

(1225),

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(1226),

Limerick Limerick ( ; ga, Luimneach ) is a western city in Ireland situated within County Limerick. It is in the province of Munster and is located in the Mid-West which comprises part of the Southern Region. With a population of 94,192 at the 2016 ...

(1227) and

Cork (city) Cork ( , from , meaning 'marsh') is the second largest city in Ireland and third largest city by population on the island of Ireland. It is located in the south-west of Ireland, in the province of Munster. Following an extension to the city ...

(1229). The order was reestablished in the 19th century after having been driven out in the 17th century by laws against Catholic religious orders. During the Penal Laws, as other

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s were established on the continent, in 1633 the Irish Dominicans established, the '' College of Corpo Santo, Lisbon''History - Irish Dominicans in Portugal
www.irishdominicansinportugal.com and ''College of the Holy Cross'', Louvain (1624-1797) to train clergy for ministering in Ireland.

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in Rome, was entrusted to the Irish Dominicans in 1677.Irish footsteps echo in Rome's past
Faith Matters, Irish News, May 20, 2021. In 1855, St. Mary's Priory, Tallaght, was established to train members of the order, who would complete their clerical studies in

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and be ordained in the Basilica San Clemente.

Dominican convents, retreat houses, and houses of study

There are currently communities of Dominican friars in the following places in Ireland: * Convent and seminary in

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* Convent, house of study and retreat house in

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* Community in

Athy Athy ( ; ) is a market town at the meeting of the River Barrow and the Grand Canal in south-west County Kildare, Ireland, 72 kilometres southwest of Dublin. A population of 9,677 (as of the 2016 census) makes it the sixth largest town in Kild ...

* Others There are also communities of Dominican nuns in a number of places.

Dominican colleges

Secondary Schools in Ireland

Dominican College, Portstewart Dominican College Portstewart is a grammar school in Portstewart, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It is situated on a cliff overlooking the Atlantic Ocean with views over Portstewart's promenade, the northern coastline of Northern Irelan ...

- a grammar school in

Portstewart Portstewart () is a small town in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It had a population of 8,003 people in the 2011 Census. It is a seaside resort neighbouring Portrush. Its harbour and scenic coastal paths form an Atlantic promenade leadin ...

on the north coast of Ireland *

Dominican College, Fortwilliam Dominican College ( ga, An Coláiste Doiminiceach, Dún Liam) a Catholic grammar all-girls school in Fortwilliam Park, north Belfast, Northern Ireland. History The school was established in 1930 by the Dominican Sisters. It was initially estab ...

- a grammar school for girls in north

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* Dominican College Taylor's Hill - a secondary school for girls in

Galway Galway ( ; ga, Gaillimh, ) is a City status in Ireland, city in the West Region, Ireland, West of Ireland, in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Connacht, which is the county town of County Galway. It lies on the River Corrib between Lo ...

Dominican College Sion Hill Dominican College Sion Hill is one of the oldest girls' secondary schools in Ireland, founded in 1836 in Blackrock, County Dublin. Its approach to education is based on the Dominican ideal of developing the whole person. "Dominican College Sion ...

- a girls' secondary school in

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* Dominican College Griffith Avenue - a girls' secondary school in

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- a private co-education day boarding school in

County Kildare County Kildare ( ga, Contae Chill Dara) is a county in Ireland. It is in the province of Leinster and is part of the Eastern and Midland Region. It is named after the town of Kildare. Kildare County Council is the local authority for the county, ...

* St. Dominic's College, Cabra - a secondary school for girls in

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. * St Dominic's Grammar School for Girls - a grammar school for girls located on the

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- this school was established by the Dominicans in Beechmount area,

in 1962. In 2019, it merged with

Christian Brothers School, Glen Road Christian Brothers' School or CBS, ( ga, Scoil na mBráithre Críostaí), was a secondary school on the Glen Road, west Belfast, Northern Ireland. CBS was founded in 1962 by the Christian Brothers, a religious order founded by Edmund Ignatius ...

and Corpus Christi College to form All Saints College / Coláiste na Naomh Uile.

Further Education / Houses of Study

* Dominican Biblical Institute (2000-2015), was a biblical research centre in Limerick, Ireland *

The Priory Institute The Priory Institute, is part of the St. Mary's Dominican Priory on the grounds of the old Tallaght Castle, Dublin 24, Ireland and provides, certificate, diploma, and degree programmes in theology and philosophy. Course accreditation In 2011 ...

, Tallaght, Dublin, in what was the Dominican House of Studies until the year 2000, provides degrees and masters programmes by distance learning, validated by the

Technological University Dublin Technological University Dublin ( ga, Ollscoil Teicneolaíochta Bhaile Átha Cliath) or TU Dublin is Ireland's first technological university, established on 1 January 2019, and with a history stretching back to 1887 through the amalgamated Dub ...

St. Saviour’s Priory, Dublin St. Saviour's Priory, Dublin, is a convent of the Dominican Order, in Dublin, founded in 1224. Its present church has, since 1974, has also served as a parish church for the local area,

since 2000, houses the Studium, the Centre of Institutional Studies of the Irish Dominican friars. *

St. Mary's Dominican Church and Priory St. Mary's Dominican Church and Priory, Pope's Quay in Cork, Ireland, is run by the Dominican Order. It serves as a local church and a priory housing a community of Dominican friars, and a novitiate for the order. Building of the church on the Po ...

, Pope's Quay in

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is the

Novitiate The novitiate, also called the noviciate, is the period of training and preparation that a Christian ''novice'' (or ''prospective'') monastic, apostolic, or member of a religious order undergoes prior to taking vows in order to discern whether ...

for the Irish Dominican Provice, and they also run courses in theology.

International

Dominican Convent High School, Harare Dominican Convent High School (commonly referred to as Convent) is a private Catholic day school for girls in Harare, Zimbabwe. One of the oldest established schools in Zimbabwe, Dominican Convent was founded in 1892 by Mother Patrick Cosgrave, a ...

, Zimbabwe, founded by an Irish Dominican nun *

Saint Dominic's International School St. Dominics International School is a school in São Domingos de Rana, Cascais, near Lisbon, in Portugal. It was founded by Irish Dominican Sisters, beginning as the Bom Sucesso Girls Day School in 1954. Transition to a co-educational school bega ...

, near Lisbon, Portugal, founded by Irish Dominican sisters

Irish Dominicans outside of Ireland

Irish Dominicans have been active outside of Ireland, taking up a number of roles and responsibilities. From 1863 many Irish Dominican priests, brothers, and nuns, served the

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Port of Spain The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Port of Spain ( la, Archidioecesis Portus Hispaniae) is a metropolitan diocese of the Latin Church of the Roman Catholic Church in the Caribbean. The archdiocese encompasses the entirety of the former Spanish dep ...

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, as the Irish Dominican Order were given responsibility for the dioceses, with a number serving as Bishops. In 1962 the Irish Dominicans were asked by the Vatican to take over the church mission in Tehran, Iran, building and maintaining Saint Abraham's Church, Tehran. Irish Dominicans have owned the Basilica of San Clemente and the surrounding building complex since 1667 when Pope Urban VIII gave them refuge, it has become a house of study and residence for Dominicans when studying in Rome. The The ''Irish Dominican College, Louvain'', (Collège des Dominicains Irlandais, Louvain), founded in 1659, was also following the French revolution in 1795. Irish Dominican presence in Lisbon goes back to when they sought refuge and clerical training setting up a college, during penal times, a Convent, ''Convento De Nossa Senhora Do Bom Sucesso'', was also established in 1633 which closed in 2006. Today the order maintains one friar in Lisbon who serves the Irish and the English speaking communities there, the convents mission continues under ''Fundação Obra Social das Religiosas Dominicanas Irlandesas, (FOSRDI)''.

Notable Irish Dominicans

Jofroi of Waterford Jofroi of Waterford (fl. 1300) was a French translator. Probably a native of Waterford in Ireland, Jofroi was a Dominican, apparently based in Paris, where he produced translations of Latin works into the French language. "He has no surviving c ...

, fl 1300?, scribe, translator * Edmund Bourke, (d. 1738), author * Thomas Burke, (1709 - 25 September 1776),

Bishop of Ossory The Bishop of Ossory () is an Episcopal polity, episcopal title which takes its name after the ancient of Kingdom of Ossory in the Provinces of Ireland, Province of Leinster, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. In the Roman Catholic Church it remain ...

* Damian Louis Byrne OP (1929-1996), 83rd, Master of the Order (1983-1992), second Irishman to hold the post. *

Thomas Nicholas Burke Thomas Nicholas Burke (8 September 1830 in Galway – 2 July 1883 in Tallaght, Ireland) was an Irish Dominican preacher. There is a statue of Thomas Burke by John Francis Kavanagh at Claddagh Quay in Galway. Life His parents, though in mod ...

, (8 September 1830 - 2 July 1882), preacher * Aengus Buckley, (1913–78). art teacher and artist (painting) *

James Joseph Carbery James Joseph Carbery (1 May 1823 – 17 December 1887), was an Irish Dominican, who became the third Bishop of Hamilton, Canada. Life Carbery's early education was received at the Seminary of Navan. At an early age, he entered enrolled in th ...

, (1 May 1823 - 17 December 1887), Bishop of Hamilton, Canada * Richard Luke Concanen, consecrated as the first Bishop of New York * Bishop John Connolly, second Bishop of New York (1814-1825) * Anthony Dominic Fahy, (11 January 1805 - 20 February 1871), missionary in Argentina * Henry Flanagan, (1918–92), teacher, musician, artist and sculptor *

Edmund Ffrench Edmund Ffrench, O.P. (1775–1852) was the Roman Catholic Warden of Galway and Bishop of Kilmacduagh and Kilfenora. Ffrench was a descendant of The Tribes of Galway, though by the 18th century his family had become Protestant. His father, Edmu ...

OP, Bishop of Kilmacduagh and Kilfenora * Andrew Fitzgerald OP, President of

St. Patrick's, Carlow College St Patrick's, Carlow College, is a liberal arts college located in Carlow, Ireland. The college is the second oldest third level institution in Ireland and was founded in 1782 by James Keefe, then Roman Catholic Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, an ...

(1814–1843), and

Tithe War The Tithe War ( ga, Cogadh na nDeachúna) was a campaign of mainly nonviolent civil disobedience, punctuated by sporadic violent episodes, in Ireland between 1830 and 1836 in reaction to the enforcement of tithes on the Roman Catholic majority f ...

campaigner *

Wilfrid Harrington Wilfrid John Harrington (born 1927 in Ireland) is an Irish Dominican priest. From Eyeries (near Castletownbere), County Cork, Ireland, Harrington was educated at Newbridge College, County Kildare, before entering the Dominican Novitiate in S ...

, (b. 1927), theologian *

Roche MacGeoghegan Roche MacGeoghegan (1580 – 26 May 1644), also known as Roque de la Cruz, was a seventeenth-century Irish people, Irish Dominicans in Ireland, Dominican prelate and Counter-Reformation, Tridentine reformist. A member of an aristocratic family f ...

, (1580 - 26 May 1644),

Bishop of Kildare The Bishop of Kildare was an episcopal title which took its name after the town of Kildare in County Kildare, Ireland. The title is no longer in use by any of the main Christian churches having been united with other bishoprics. In the Roman Cat ...

* Brian McKevitt, publisher of Alive!, a conservative Catholic newspaper * Michael Peter MacMahon OP,

Bishop of Killaloe The Bishop of Killaloe ( ) is an episcopal title which takes its name after the town of Killaloe in County Clare, Ireland. In the Roman Catholic Church it remains a separate title, but in the Church of Ireland it has been united with other bish ...

* Fr. Joseph Mullooly, (1812 - 1880), archaeologist, superior Irish Dominican College, Rome *

Ambrose O'Conor Ambrose of Milan ( la, Aurelius Ambrosius; ), venerated as Saint Ambrose, ; lmo, Sant Ambroeus . was a theologian and statesman who served as Bishop of Milan from 374 to 397. He expressed himself prominently as a public figure, fiercely promo ...

, MTh, Provincial of the Irish Dominicans, nominated as Vicar Apostolic of Ardagh 1709, died 1711. * Daniel O'Daly, (1595 - 30 June 1662), diplomat and historian, first rector of Dominican Corpo Santo College, Lisbon * Geraldine Smyth OP, Prioress International Dominican sisters (1998-2004), Director of the

Irish School of Ecumenics The Irish School of Ecumenics (ISE) is an institute of Trinity College Dublin, dedicated to the study and promotion of peace and reconciliation in Ireland and throughout the world. The school is located in Dublin and Belfast, and consists of eight ...

(1994-1999) *

John Thomas Troy John Thomas Troy (10 May 1739, County Dublin – 11 May 1823, Dublin) was an Irish Dominican and Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin. Life Dominican Of Anglo-Norman stock, Troy was born at Annefield House, near Porterstown and received his ...

, (10 May 1739 - 11 May 1823),

Archbishop of Dublin The Archbishop of Dublin is an archepiscopal title which takes its name after Dublin, Ireland. Since the Reformation, there have been parallel apostolic successions to the title: one in the Catholic Church and the other in the Church of Irelan ...

Irish Dominican Bishops Port of Spain

* Patrick Vincent Flood, O.P., Archbishop of Port of Spain (1889–1907) * John Pius Dowling, O.P., Archbishop of Port of Spain (1909–1940) *

Patrick Finbar Ryan Patrick Finbar Ryan, TC, O.P., (1881-1975) was an Irish Dominican priest who served as Archbishop of Port of Spain, Trinidad (1940–1966). Patrick Ryan was born in Rochestown, County Cork, the son of Edward Ryan, and Matilda Ryan. on 4 March ...

, O.P., Archbishop of Port of Spain (1940–1966), provincial of the Irish Dominican Province (1921–26 and 1930–34) * William Dominic O’Carroll, O.P. (1874-1880), Coadjutor bishop * Thomas Raymond Hyland, O.P. (1882-1884), Coadjutor bishop * George Vincent King, O.P. 1885–1886), Coadjutor bishop * William Michael Fitzgerald, O.P. (1958-1968), Auxiliary bishop

Irish Dominicans Killed/Martyred

* Richard Barry, O.P., Prior of Cashel, slain there, 1647. * Dominic Dillon, O.P., prior at Urlar(Sligo), martyred, drogheda 1649 * Raymund Keogh, O.P., Roscommon Priory, martyred mulingar, 1642. * William Lynch, O.P., hanged, 1649. * Miler MacGrath (Father Michael of the Rosary), O.P., hanged, Clonmel, 1650. * William McGillacunny (MacGiolla Coinigh), O.P., executed at Coleraine, 1617. * Thaddeaus Moriarity, O.P., DTh., Prior of Tralee, hanged, at Killarney, l653. * Edmund O’Bern, O.P., beheaded after torture, Jamestown, Carrick-on-Shannon, 1652. *

Terence Albert O'Brien Terence Albert O'Brien (1600 – 30 October 1651) was an Irish Roman Catholic Bishop of Emly. He was beatified among the 17 Irish Catholic Martyrs by Pope John Paul II on 27 September 1992. Biography O'Brien hailed from Cappamore, County L ...

, (1600 - 31 Oct 1651),

Bishop of Emly The Bishop of Emly ( ga, Imleach Iubhair; la, Imilicensis) was a separate episcopal title which took its name after the village of Emly in County Tipperary, Republic of Ireland. In both the Church of Ireland and the Roman Catholic Church, it has ...

, martyr, hanged in Limerick. * Felix O'Connor, O.P., Prior at Louvain and Sligo; died in Sligo Jail, 1679. * William O'Connor, O.P., Clonmel Priory, slain, 1651. * Thomas O'Higgins, O.P., hanged in Clonmel, 1651. * Peter O'Higgins, O.P., Prior of Naas, hanged, 1641. * John O’Luin, O.P., hanged at Derry 1607. * Donagh (William) O’Luin, O.P., prior of Derry, hanged and quartered, 1608. * Raymund O'Moore, O.P., Martyred, Dublin 1665. * Richard Oveton, O.P., sub-prior at Athy, beheaded in Drogheda, 1649 * James O’Reilly, O.P., killed near Clonmel, 1649

Provincial of the Dominicans in Ireland

* 2021–Present: John Harris O.P. * 2012-2020: Gregory Carroll O.P. * 2004-2012: Pat Lucey, O.P. * 2000-2004: Gearóid Manning O.P. * 1992-2000: Larry Collins O.P. * 1984-1992: Tom Jordan O.P. * 1969-?: Flannan Aidan Hynes O.P. * Louis Coffey O.P. * 1957-1961: Reginald Harrington O.P. * Thomas E. Garde O.P. * 1930-1934:

O.P. * 1921-1926:

O.P. * 1868-1872: Robert Augustine Concanen White O.P. * 1864-1868: Bartholomew Thomas Russell O.P. * 1856-1860: Robert Augustine Concanen White O.P. * 1852-1856: Bartholomew Thomas Russell O.P. * Bernard Dominic Goodman O.P. * 1836-1840: William Joseph McDonnell O.P. * 1832-1836: Peter Dominick Smyth O.P. * 1828-1832: Andrew Fitzgerald O.P. * Patrick Gibbins O.P. * 1722-1739: John Fottrell O.P. *

O.P., MTh * 1647: Terence Albert O’Brien O.P. * 1614-1617:

O.P. * 1593-1600: Thaddeus Duane O.P.

Dominican Publications

Established in 1897, Dominican publications have published Catholic ethos books and a number of magazines and journals.

Journals

* Doctrine and Life (ten times a year) * Scripture in Church (quarterly) * Spirituality (every two months)

Former Journals

Irish Rosary ''Irish Rosary'' ("A monthly magazine conducted by the Dominican Fathers"), was an Irish Catholic monthly magazine produced by the Irish Dominicans. The ''Irish Rosary'' was the first publication from the Dominican Publications since its foundatio ...

, monthly journal (1897-1961) * Imeldist, children's publication founded in 1921 published until 1941.

External links

National

Provincial site

Vocations Website

Vocations Blog

Dominican Students' Preaching Website - Dominicans Interactive

Dominican Publications Website

Website of the St Martin Apostolate

Website of the Rosary Apostolate

Dominican Polish Chaplaincy in Ireland

Preaching Website

Priory Institute

Local communities and apostolates

Dublin Dominicans' Website

Tallaght Dominicans' Website

Kilkenny Dominicans' Website - "The Black Abbey"

Galway Dominicans' Website

Tralee Dominicans' Website

Newbridge Dominicans' Website

Dominican Polish Chaplaincy in Tralee

Dominican Polish Chaplaincy in Galway

Dominican Polish Chaplaincy in Tallaght

Dominican Retreat Centre in Cork

Cork City Centre Dominicans' Website

Waterford City Centre Dominicans' Website

San Clemente, the Irish Dominican community in Rome, Italy

Tehran House of the Irish Dominicans

References

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