Wesley College is an independent co-educational secondary school for day and boarding students in
Ballinteer, Dublin
Ballinteer () is a small southside suburb of Dublin, located in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Ireland, extensively developed from the late 1960s onwards.
Geography
Ballinteer is located approximately from the city centre. To the west is R ...
, Ireland. Wesley College is under the control of a Board of Governors, appointed each year by the
Methodist Church in Ireland
The Methodist Church in Ireland ( Ulster-Scots: ''Methody Kirk in Airlann'', ) is a Wesleyan Methodist church that operates across both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland on an all-Ireland basis. It is the fourth-largest Christian denom ...
.
Wesley College was founded on 1 October 1845 and counts two Nobel laureates among its alumni. Strong emphasis is put on religious education for all denominations and both extra-curricular activities and sport play an important part in this school. The college offers pupils an opportunity to explore the humanities, sciences, technology, business studies, English literature, music and the arts. Wesley College offers a range of extracurricular and sporting activities in the belief that these assist a "sound general education and contribute to the whole person".
History
Origins
On 16 May 1844, a gathering of men met in
Belfast
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and agreed to form a Wesleyan Proprietary Grammar School in Ireland "for the purpose of affording a thorough literary, scientific and commercial education, with a sound, religious, and moral training, in strict accordance with the principles of Wesleyan Methodism".
The committee originally proposed a boarding and day school for boys, in the vicinity of Belfast but later decided that the Wesleyan
Connexional School should be established in Dublin which was the hub of Ireland's transport system and had a far greater population. A large dilapidated dwelling house, No. 79
St. Stephen's Green
St Stephen's Green () is a garden square and public park located in the city centre of Dublin, Ireland. The current landscape of the park was designed by William Sheppard. It was officially re-opened to the public on Tuesday, 27 July 1880 by Lo ...
, sited on what is now part of the
Department of Foreign Affairs, was leased from the trustees of
The King's Hospital
The Hospital and Free School of King Charles II, Oxmantown, also called The King's Hospital (KH; ) is a Church of Ireland co-educational independent day and boarding school situated in Palmerstown, Dublin, Ireland. It is on an 80-acre campus ...
.
The Wesleyan Connexional School was founded in 1845 in St. Stephen's Green, Dublin by a group of
Methodist Ministers
Methodism, also called the Methodist movement, is a group of historically related denominations of Protestant Christianity whose origins, doctrine and practice derive from the life and teachings of John Wesley. George Whitefield and John' ...
and other men for the Methodist Community in Ireland. In 1879 the Methodist Conference granted the request of the School's Trustees that it would be named Wesley College.
Development
In June 1911 the Wesley College Trustees put the following proposal to the Methodist Conference, "This committee, having had the fact brought under their notice that at the present time there is no school in the three southern provinces under the Methodist Management offering to girls the advantages of an Intermediate education, suggests to the Conference that the present is a suitable occasion for opening Wesley College to girls who desire to secure such training as will fit them for professional and business careers". The Conference responded favourably and the Trustees purchased No. 110 St. Stephen's Green as a girls' hostel. It had formerly been known as "The Epworth Club", a boarding house for young Epworth business men coming to Dublin, which had ceased to serve its purposes. The hostel was called Epworth House.
Six boarder girls and fifteen day-girls, together with the new boys, joined the 175 (approximately) boys already in the college in September 1911.
Right up to the 1940s co-education was narrowly interpreted and strictly supervised. The boys were always called by their surnames, while the girls had their surnames prefixed by "Miss". Casual conversation between the boys and girls was discouraged and they did not have meals together until the 1950s.
Move to Ballinteer
In 1969 Wesley College sold its buildings at Appian Way in Dublin to
Fitzwilliam Lawn Tennis Club
Fitzwilliam Lawn Tennis Club is a tennis and squash club in south Dublin, Ireland. Established in 1877, Fitzwilliam is one of the oldest tennis clubs in the world. It has held the Irish Open annually since the late 19th century.
History
In No ...
and its other buildings at Burlington Road and Leeson Street Upper to property developers to form the site on which was later to be constructed the
Burlington Hotel. The school then moved to its present site in
Ballinteer
Ballinteer () is a small Southside (Dublin), southside suburb of Dublin, located in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Republic of Ireland, Ireland, extensively Housing development, developed from the late 1960s onwards.
Geography
Ballinteer is lo ...
, a suburb of Dublin, at the foothills of the Dublin mountains. The final school activity on the old College site was the end-of-year service in the Large Schoolroom on 14 June 1969, followed by a celebration of Holy Communion in the chapel. The official opening and dedication of the new buildings at Ludford Park took place at 3.00 p.m. on Saturday, 7 June 1969, opened by
Éamon de Valera
Éamon de Valera (, ; first registered as George de Valero; changed some time before 1901 to Edward de Valera; 14 October 1882 – 29 August 1975) was a prominent Irish statesman and political leader. He served several terms as head of govern ...
, President of Ireland.
The 1969 campus was added to in 1980, 1987, and 1991, a state of the art library and Information Technology building was added in 1999 and a new modern music and arts centre as well as a Materials Technology suite were opened in 2005.
In 2019 a state of the art sports centre was opened.
School coat of arms
In 1969, the college obtained from the Chief Herald an official grant of arms, which replaced that previously used. The upper part of the shield has a red ground, and bears the Bible, surmounted by a Maltese cross, an old Wesley College symbol. To the right is an escallop shell from the arms of
John Wesley's family. The lower part of the shield has a blue ground and on it a flaming castle from the Dublin City arms. The scroll below the shield contains the college motto in Greek, "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." (I Thessalonians 5.21)
Extracurricular activities
Extracurricular activities include drama, debating (where speakers have recently achieved international honours),
Amnesty International
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, Christian Union, and many others.
In 2010 Carin Hunt, a fifth year, travelled to
Qatar
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as part of the Irish debating team for the
World's Debating. Former student Mark Haughton was the Irish Team's debating coach, and had achieved second as part of the Irish team, in the World's Debating while at Wesley. Carin went on to captain the team in the School's finals in Dundee the following year, taking them to the semi-finals.
Wesley has won the
All Ireland hockey trophy. Wesley not only places an emphasis on activities which solely help students themselves but also to move children is highly important for the teaching staff. Students in Transition year are able to reach out in various ways such as classroom assistance, helping children with special needs and music teaching. In recent years a team from Wesley's Transition year has embarked on a
Habitat for Humanity
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house building trip annually.
The students of the college also produce a monthly newspaper, ''Full Stop'' which has been providing a voice for students since 9 December 2003.
Rugby
From the beginning,
Rugby Union
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has been the main competitive team sport for boys in the school. The school won the Leinster Schools Rugby Senior Cup in 1898 and the Senior league final in 2000. The Senior Cup team have played in the Vincent Murray Cup final on five occasions; winning in 2002, 2013, 2015 and 2018 and losing the final in 2009. In 2018 the school won their first junior trophy beating Kilkenny College the Fr Godfrey final.
Wesley has produced a number of provincial and international rugby players including
Josh van der Flier
Josh van der Flier () (born 25 April 1993) is an Irish rugby union player for Leinster and Ireland. His preferred position is flanker, but plays at other positions if needed. Van der Flier is of Dutch descent through his paternal grandparents, ...
and
Eric Miller Eric, Erik, or Erick Miller may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* Eric Miller (record producer) (c. 1941–2017), American record producer and Norman Granz's protégé
*Eric Miller (photographer) (born 1951), South African photographer during and ...
.
Rugby Honours
*
Leinster Schools Rugby 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 ...
- 1898
*
Leinster Schools Rugby Senior League
Overview
The Leinster Schools Rugby Senior League is a rugby union competition for secondary schools affiliated to the Leinster Branch of the IRFU. It is played before Christmas, after which the Leinster Schools Rugby Senior Cup is played. I ...
- 2000
*
Leinster Schools Vinnie Murray Cup - 2002, 2013, 2015, 2018 (Runners Up: 2009)
* Leinster Schools Fr Godrey Cup - 2018
Interschools Music Festival
Each year Wesley hosts one of the largest interschools music festivals in the country. Hundreds of students from many schools, both primary and secondary level, compete in individual and choral singing as well as individual instrumental and orchestral. In recent years the school built a dedicated Music and Arts Centre. Included in this centre is the purpose built G. B. Shaw Auditorium, named after one of Wesley's most famous past pupils.
Lifelines
In 1992, the college published its fourth, and final, instalment of the Lifelines anthology. The earlier instalments were published in 1985, 1988 and 1990 by The Underground Press Ltd, Wesley College. Under format of the anthologies, a panel of students within Wesley write to notable people, such as celebrities, sports people and world leaders, asking them to highlight their favourite poem with a brief explanation for their choosing. Thus far the anthology has raised over €140,000 for Irish charity Concern. The latest edition itself has raised €29,000 and was honoured as the Best Irish Published Book of the Year, in the 2007 Irish Book Awards. In 2010,
The National Library of Ireland purchased the original letters that were included in the original 1985 edition of Lifelines. Subsequently, Wesley College donated all correspondence, photographs and other related archival material to the Library. The Discover Lifelines exhibition in the Library's main hall showed letters from this archive from writers, poets, actors, artists, media personalities and politician and ran throughout 2010. A collective edition of the anthology was published by Town House, Dublin, in 1992.
Senior Choir
The Senior Choir at Wesley College Dublin received a number of awards during the term 2011/2012, including the All Ireland School Choir Competition. This was broadcast on live RTÉ television. The choir also won both of their competitions in that year's Feis Ceol in Dublin. They have appeared on the Late Late Show on RTÉ as well as on RTÉ Radio One on Pat Kenny's morning show.
Wartime contribution
Wesley, like many other schools in Ireland, contributed to the effort of the two major world wars. Over 85 students of the college died in the
First World War
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll, one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, ...
. Their names are listed on a memorial in the college concourse which reads "This building was erected to the honour of all old boys of this College who ventured their lives for defence of home and country in the Great War and especially in loving and grateful memory of those who fell". (The building mentioned was the old College Chapel, where the memorial was located before the move to Ballinteer.) 25 students of Wesley, including one German, died between 1939 and 1945 in the
Second World War
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. These are also listed on a memorial in the main concourse.
Remembrance Day
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is marked each year with the laying of a wreath on the memorial.
Notable past pupils
Politics and government
*
Lionel Booth,
TD
*
Sir Edward Carson,
barrister
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and
MP, Leader of the
Ulster Unionist Party
The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) is a unionist political party in Northern Ireland. The party was founded in 1905, emerging from the Irish Unionist Alliance in Ulster. Under Edward Carson, it led unionist opposition to the Irish Home Rule m ...
1910-21
*
Henry Flavelle Forbes, C.I.E., President of the Court of Appeal, Iraq, 1920/21
*
Sir Robert Henry Woods MP, ENT Surgeon, President of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland 1910–11
*
Sir Robert Hart, 1st Baronet
Sir Robert Hart, 1st Baronet, (20 February 1835 – 20 September 1911) was a British diplomat and official in the Qing Chinese government, serving as the second Inspector-General of China's Imperial Maritime Custom Service (IMCS) from 1863 to ...
, Inspector General of China's Imperial Maritime Custom Service (1863)
*
Chaim Herzog
Aluf, Major-General Chaim Herzog ( he, חיים הרצוג; 17 September 1918 – 17 April 1997) was an Irish-born Israeli politician, general, lawyer and author who served as the List of Presidents of Israel, sixth President of Israel between ...
, sixth
President of Israel
The president of the State of Israel ( he, נְשִׂיא מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, Nesi Medinat Yisra'el, or he, נְשִׂיא הַמְדִינָה, Nesi HaMedina, President of the State) is the head of state of Israel. The po ...
*
William McMillan, and Australian politician and businessman.
*
H. B. Higgins,
Attorney General of the Australian Government in 1904
* Sir
Harold J. Maguire, Director-General of Intelligence at the British Ministry of Defence (1968–1972)
*
Mervyn Taylor, TD,
Minister for Equality and Law Reform
* Senator
Gordon Wilson
*
Neale Richmond
Neale Richmond (born 15 March 1983) is an Irish Fine Gael politician who has served as Minister of State since 2023. He has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin Rathdown constituency since the 2020 general election. He previously served as ...
TD, also served as Senator
Music and the arts
*
Harry Furniss
Harry Furniss (26 March 185414 January 1925) was a British illustrator. He established his career on the ''Illustrated London News'' before moving to ''Punch''. He also illustrated Lewis Carroll's novel ''Sylvie and Bruno''.
Biography
Although F ...
, caricaturist
*
David Kitt
David Kitt (born 1975 in Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish musician. He has released eight studio albums to date: ''Small Moments'', '' The Big Romance'', ''Square 1'', ''The Black and Red Notebook'', '' Not Fade Away'', ''The Nightsaver'', ''Yous'', ...
and Robbie Kitt, members of the band Spilly Walker
*
Annie Mac
Annie Mac (born 18 July 1978), is an Irish DJ, broadcaster and writer. She hosted a variety of shows on BBC Radio 1, including BBC Switch and ''Future Sounds''. She also DJed in various locations, including hosting her AMP (Annie Mac Presents) ...
, BBC Radio 1 DJ
*
Niall Morris, tenor, member of the
Celtic Tenors
*
Eva O'Connor
Eva O'Connor is an Irish stage actress and playwright.
Career
O'Connor's play ''My Name Is Saoirse''—a one-woman show in which she starred—was performed at the 2014 Edinburgh Fringe and 2014 Dublin Fringe Festival. The show won the First ...
, theatre actress who was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in the 2009
Irish Times Theatre Awards
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History
The awards were founded in 1997 by ''The Irish Times''. Awards were established in numerous categories, ranging from design, to acting, to overall ...
*
Stanley Townsend
Stanley Townsend (born August 1961) is an Irish actor.
Personal life
Townsend was born and brought up in Dublin. After attending Wesley College, Dublin, he studied mathematics and civil engineering at Trinity College. While there he joined the ...
, television, film and stage actor (in the BBC's ''Rough Diamond'' and other dramas)
*
Heather Jones
Heather D. E. Jones (born October 8, 1970) is a former field hockey player from Canada, who represented her native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. There she ended up in seventh place with the Canadian National Women' ...
, Professor of Modern and Contemporary European History, University College London
*
Mark McCabe
Mark McCabe (born 10 May 1978) is an Irish music producer, remixer, radio DJ and club DJ, from Dublin. In 2000, he released " Maniac 2000" and it went to number one, as the second biggest-selling record ever in Ireland. In 2017, McCabe teamed ...
, music producer, remixer and Radio DJ for RTE 2FM. Best known for releasing
Maniac 2000
"Maniac 2000" is a song produced by Simon Fitzpatrick and Tim Hannigan featuring vocals performed by Mark McCabe and Shelley Bukspan. It is a medley of Michael Sembello's 1983 song "Maniac" and a rap written mainly by Dublin's Al Gibbs and Mark M ...
that is the number two best selling record ever in Ireland
Science
*
John Widdess, biologist, journal editor and medical historian
*
Kenneth Wolfe, Professor of Genomic Evolution, UCD School of Medicine and UCD Conway Institute, University College Dublin
Business and philanthropy
*
Philip Berber, former CEO of Cybercorp and multimillionaire philanthropist, Chairman of A Glimmer of Hope Foundation
*
Richard Burrows, Chairman of
British American Tobacco
British American Tobacco plc (BAT) is a British multinational company that manufactures and sells cigarettes, tobacco and other nicotine products. The company, established in 1902, is headquartered in London, England. As of 2019, it is the lar ...
, former Governor of the
Bank of Ireland
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*
Dermot FitzGerald, Irish businessman and philanthropist
*
Frederick Keppel
Frederick Keppel (19 January 1728 – 27 December 1777) was a Church of England clergyman, Bishop of Exeter.
Background
Keppel was the fifth and fourth surviving son of Willem van Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle and his wife Lady Anne Lenno ...
, Irish-American art dealer
Clergy
*
Michael Burrows, Bishop of Cashel and Ossory
*
Donald Caird
Donald Arthur Richard Caird (11 December 1925 – 1 June 2017) was an Irish bishop who held three senior posts in the Church of Ireland during the last third of the 20th century.
He was born in Dublin and educated at Wesley College and ...
, Archbishop of Dublin
*
Richard Clarke, Archbishop of Armagh, Primate of Ireland
*
Frank Johnston, head of the Royal Army Chaplains' Department, British Army
Nobel laureates
*
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from ...
, playwright, Nobel Prize for Literature
*
Ernest Walton
Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton (6 October 1903 – 25 June 1995) was an Irish physicist and Nobel laureate. He is best known for his work with John Cockcroft to construct one of the earliest types of particle accelerator, the Cockcroft–Walton ...
, Nobel Prize for Physics.
Sporting alumni
Former Wesley College students have represented Ireland at international level in a number of sports.
Rugby union
;
British and Irish Lions
The British & Irish Lions is a rugby union team selected from players eligible for the national teams of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. The Lions are a test side and most often select players who have already played for their national ...
*
Eric Miller Eric, Erik, or Erick Miller may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* Eric Miller (record producer) (c. 1941–2017), American record producer and Norman Granz's protégé
*Eric Miller (photographer) (born 1951), South African photographer during and ...
;
*
Herbert Aston
*
Eric Miller Eric, Erik, or Erick Miller may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* Eric Miller (record producer) (c. 1941–2017), American record producer and Norman Granz's protégé
*Eric Miller (photographer) (born 1951), South African photographer during and ...
*
Josh van der Flier
Josh van der Flier () (born 25 April 1993) is an Irish rugby union player for Leinster and Ireland. His preferred position is flanker, but plays at other positions if needed. Van der Flier is of Dutch descent through his paternal grandparents, ...
Rugby league
;
*
Ross Barbour
Cricket
; men's internationals
; women's internationals
*
Lara Molins
Lara Molins Caplin (born Lara Deborah Molins; 28 March 1980) is an Irish cricketer who played at One Day International (ODI) level for the Irish national side between 1999 and 2001, including at the 2000 World Cup.
Biography
Born to a Jewish ...
*
Nikki Squire
Nikki Helen Squire (born 2 November 1967) is a former Irish international cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each co ...
*
Nikki Symmons
Nikki Symmons (born 2 August 1982) is a former Ireland women's field hockey international. Symmons is also a former Ireland women's cricket international. Between 2001 and 2013 Symmons made 208 appearances and scored 31 goals for Ireland. She ...
*
Julie van der Flier
Association football
; men's internationals
*
Fred Horlacher
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; women's internationals
*
Sylvia Gee
Field hockey
; men's internationals
*
Michael Darling
*
Kyle Good
Kyle Good (born 10 December 1991) is an Ireland men's field hockey international. He was a member of the Ireland team that won the bronze medal at the 2015 Men's EuroHockey Nations Championship. He also represented Ireland at the 2016 Summer ...
*
Kirk Shimmins
Kirk Raymond Shimmins (born 1 June 1994) is an Irish field hockey player who plays as a midfielder for Belgian club KHC Dragons and the Irish national team.
He competed for the Ireland men's national field hockey team
The Ireland men's na ...
; women's internationals
*
Nikki Symmons
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Olympians
;
Ireland
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*
Scott Evans; badminton –
2008
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Beijing,
2012 London,
2016
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Rio
*
Michael Darling; field hockey –
2016
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*
Kyle Good
Kyle Good (born 10 December 1991) is an Ireland men's field hockey international. He was a member of the Ireland team that won the bronze medal at the 2015 Men's EuroHockey Nations Championship. He also represented Ireland at the 2016 Summer ...
; field hockey –
2016
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*
Kirk Shimmins
Kirk Raymond Shimmins (born 1 June 1994) is an Irish field hockey player who plays as a midfielder for Belgian club KHC Dragons and the Irish national team.
He competed for the Ireland men's national field hockey team
The Ireland men's na ...
; field hockey –
2016
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*
Nick Sweeney; discus thrower –
1992,
1996,
2000
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,
2004
*
David Wilkins; sailing –
1972
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,
1976
Events January
* January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force.
* January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea.
* January 11 – The 1976 ...
,
1980,
1988
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,
1992
See also
*
Old Wesley
Old Wesley Rugby Football Club was founded in 1891 from the past pupils of Wesley College, Dublin. Since then it has become one of Leinster's most famous clubs. It plays in Division 1B of the All-Ireland League. The club won the Leinster Seni ...
References
External links
Wesley College- official website
Wesley College Past Pupils Union- official website
Old Wesley- Rugby Club Founded by past pupils
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