C.B.C. Monkstown
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Christian Brothers College, Monkstown Park (or C.B.C. Monkstown Park) is a voluntary fee-paying Catholic school and Independent Junior school, founded in 1856 in Monkstown, Dún Laoghaire
, County Dublin
, Ireland. The school fees are approximately €4,700 per annum. The college arrived at Monkstown Park in 1950 from Eblana Avenue in Dun Laoghaire
via a short stint on Tivoli Road. This is the 60th academic year of existence at Monkstown Park, the 154th overall.
The school motto is "Certa Bonum Certamen" or "fight the good fight" and the school colours are red, black and yellow. Monkstown has a sister school in Cork, Christians
(CBC Cork) also founded by the Christian Brothers, both schools share the same colours of red, yellow and black and other traditions such as the motto. Recently Monkstown was 'twinned' with St. Patrick's College
in Sri Lanka
.
The school is to be re-built in the summer of2009 2010 2011 2012. Dr. Gerry Berry assumed the role of principal in September 2009.
Avenue in Dún Laoghaire
(Kingstown as it was known then). The site was provided by Mr Charles Kennedy. Brother Alphonsus Hoope was appointed as superior of the school.
This was just ten years after the Great Famine, and emigration
was rife. The school was called St Michaels Christian Brothers School, and initially educated mainly poor boys from the area. Kingstown during the 19th century was rapidly expanding with the harbour town seeing the addition of the piers and the Dublin and Kingstown Railway
opening 20 years before the school.
Hoope arranged for two rooms for teaching, which had to be expanded after three weeks to three due to demand. Within two years, a building housing 400 students was built on the site. The school was financed from "voluntary subscriptions, solicited and collected by the Brothers". The Brothers residence of the time was located behind the main school building. There were 6 Brothers living on the school grounds, a building separate from the main school block. The school premises was valued in 1859 at £60.
The Brothers continued to have a major role in the education system when Ireland gained independence. As Catholics became wealthier and put a higher premium on education many would choose such lifestyles and this posed a danger to traditional schools such as the Christian Brothers in Dun Laoghaire. A collegiate section was opened in the early 1930s to cope with the greater demand for Leaving Certificate education. Already the Holy Ghost order, the Jesuits and the Carmelites
had opened fee paying schools in Dublin with sports like rugby to the forefront of the ethos. Rugby was made the school sport rather that the more normal Christian Brothers sporting pursuits in Gaelic Games (Gaelic Games was played at the new Eblana secondary school after the splitting of the school, however).
The school at Eblana prospered to an extent that it became impossible to accommodate both primary and secondary departments in the 19th century buildings. A new site was sought for part of the school.
At that point the school, hitherto known as St. Michael's College, split into public and private schools, with the private part (the new CBC Monkstown, previous Christian Brothers Schools, Dun Laoghaire) moving and the public (the former CBS Eblana
in Dun Laoghaire) remaining on the site. The secondary department, with the exception of the commercial stream, moved to the house at Monkstown in 1950, and extended the neo-classical house built by the historian Charles Haliday
in 1843.
A past pupils union was established in the early 1950s. The Union helped established a Sociological Centre at the College during this time. In 1956 a special mass was celebrated for the first 100 years of the Dun Laoghaire Christian Brothers, attended by several leading figures in Ireland.
In 1964 a new concert hall and a further extension was opened on the site.
CBC abstained from joining the Free Education Scheme introduced by Donagh O'Malley in 1969, becoming one of the 56 secondary schools (8% of the total) in the country not funded by the Government.
Oratory, which opened in 1994.
In 2000 the college celebrated its Golden Jubilee at Monkstown Park. The school year began with a ceremonial walk from the old Eblana school site to Monkstown Park. Events included a Jubilee Concert and the opening of a wall with the names of all the pupils from the time in Monkstown from 1950 onwards, attended by the President of Ireland.
There are currently plans to rebuild the school on its current site. This caused considerable controversy in 2005 in the national media when it was announced, as CBC would receive a portion of the costs of funding the building despite being a fee-paying school from the Irish state.
In 2007 the Christian Brothers decided to transfer the trusteeship of the school to the Edmund Rice Schools Trust along with 96 other Christian Brothers schools.
In 2009 construction of the new school began, scheduled to be completed in August 2011.
is located to the north of the school on the border of the grounds and Monkstown Castle is adjacent to the school. The college is made up of three buildings interconnected. Charles Haliday's house built in 1843 is incorporated into the main school block. The facade of the building long portico of Corinthians columns
remains intact and is a protected structure. The tower opposite the main building is also a protected structure. The administrative block was built in 1987 and also contains several classrooms. The Concert hall was built in the early 1960s.
The current re-building will terrace the new building into "the hill" and the current buildings are to be demolished with the protected structures and part of the old house retained as part of the development.
The grounds contain an athletics paddock and three rugby pitches. This includes the infamous gut which partly is a second entrance to the school, since shut.
and later the Leaving Certificate
. School hours are between 8:45 AM to 4 PM with a half day for sporting activities on Wednesdays at 1 PM. In addition sports activities sometimes take place after 4 PM and optional afternoon and night study is available.
The fourth year (Transition Year) includes courses in academic subjects, as well as such optional subjects and activities as: Japanese
, Sailing
, Social work
, Tourism
and First aid
. The Comenius project is also offered which is a project linking CBC with other schools around Europe. Transition Year classes won the Comortas Scannan TG4
in 2005 and were finalists in 2006, the 2005 group having their film represent Ireland in Italy in 2005.
Aside from the core languages of English and Irish
; Latin, Japanese, French, German and Spanish are taught. In addition to Business Studies for the Junior Cert; Economics
, Business
and Accounting are offered for the Leaving Cert. Mathematics
and Applied Mathematics
are taught. Physics
, Chemistry
and Biology
are offered as science subjects. Civics
, Geography
, History
, Technical drawing
, Art
, Music
, Computer
s and Home Economics
are also offered.
The Department of Education
has released three subject inspection reports on the school; history, physics and technical drawing. The report on Technical Graphics praised the facilities and quality of the lessons observed. It did encourage however that the subject become a part of the school's Transistion Year programme. The report on history praised the strong take up of the subject for the Leaving Certificate and the quality of teaching.
In the 2004 Sunday Times Schools League Table, CBC was listed among the country's top twenty school, while in the Irish Times tables in 2006, the school was the top all boys school in Ireland (3rd overall).
As an Independent school
, it operates outside the auspices of the Department of Education, which does not control school hours, curriculum and activities.
The Edmund Rice Oratory is one of the school's latest additions. A school chaplain is available to the college.
and help in charity work. Others complete An Gaisce (Presidents Award) and the Edmund Rice
awards which contain significant social work.
The Junior School's 6th class raise money annually for the Chernobyl Children's Project (with their charity Children Helping Children), and culminate their fund raising in a business exhibition at the end of every year. In 2007 they raised €42,000 for the project. In 2008 the school started a new charity: the Edmund Rice's Children's Fund. This encourages a whole school approach.
in 1958. Class V performed Patrick Pearse
's Íosagán under the directorship of Thomas MacAnna
, a future Tony Award winner, who was the drama and elocution teacher in the school at the time. MacAnna also produced the early Gilbert and Sullivan
opera performances at the school.
The annual school musical, a collaboration with the nearby girls school Loreto College, Foxrock
has been a huge success. It has been running for 21 years and each respective transition year pupils participate, providing the student wishes to participate.
A fifth-year drama is also produced.
at Oxford University.
has been the main competitive team sport of the school. Rugby was played at the old Monkstown Park School (Corrig School) who won the Leinster Schools Rugby Senior Cup twice in the early 1900s.
The school's rugby team initially was CBC Dún Laoighaire before the move to the new school in Monkstown. CBC Monkstown won the Leinster Schools Rugby Senior Cup in 1976 and reached the final in 1984. The school won the League Cup at Junior Level in 1998 and 2004, reaching the final in 1997/98, 2000/01, 2007/08, 2008/09 and 2010/2011. The Senior Cup team played in the Senior league final in 2001, 2003, and 2008, winning the latter. On the five occasions the Senior team have played in the Vincent Murray Cup they won in 2003, 2005 and 2007 whilst losing the final in 2006 and 2010. CBC won the Powerade Leinster 'School of the Year' award in 2008.
CBC has produced a number of provincial and international rugby players including Paddy O'Donoghue (rugby)
and Pat Casey
. Other rugby figures include the former President of the IRFU, John Lyons and the former international referee Donal Courtney
.
In 2008 the school undertook a tour of Argentina
and Uruguay
playing games against a number of teams including Newman Club (rugby)
, a Christian Brothers school in Buenos Aires. Previous tours include Australia in 2001 and South Africa in 2005.
.
, Swimming
, Tennis
, Sailing
, Orienteering
, scrabble
, horse-riding, squash
and Badminton
.
Golf is played in Leopardstown Golf Course and the school enters teams every year at provincial level.
The school has two tennis courts (neither of which have nets or chalk outlines) but in recent years the school has used Monkstown Tennis Club opposite the school. The school tennis team reached the Semi Finals of the Leinster Championships in 2009.
Swimming is undertaken at Monkstown Blue Pool.
The school uses the facilities at Dun Laoghaire for sailing which is a part of the Transition year programme. The school came third in the Leinster Schools Sailing Championships in 2009.
Notable past pupils from the Dun Laoghaire and Monkstown schools include:
Arts and Entertainment
Humanitarian
Sport
Politics, legal and diplomats
Business
Academia and Journalistic
Dún Laoghaire
Dún Laoghaire or Dún Laoire , sometimes anglicised as "Dunleary" , is a suburban seaside town in County Dublin, Ireland, about twelve kilometres south of Dublin city centre. It is the county town of Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County and a major port of entry from Great Britain...
, County Dublin
County Dublin
County Dublin is a county in Ireland. It is part of the Dublin Region and is also located in the province of Leinster. It is named after the city of Dublin which is the capital of Ireland. County Dublin was one of the first of the parts of Ireland to be shired by King John of England following the...
, Ireland. The school fees are approximately €4,700 per annum. The college arrived at Monkstown Park in 1950 from Eblana Avenue in Dun Laoghaire
Dún Laoghaire
Dún Laoghaire or Dún Laoire , sometimes anglicised as "Dunleary" , is a suburban seaside town in County Dublin, Ireland, about twelve kilometres south of Dublin city centre. It is the county town of Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County and a major port of entry from Great Britain...
via a short stint on Tivoli Road. This is the 60th academic year of existence at Monkstown Park, the 154th overall.
The school motto is "Certa Bonum Certamen" or "fight the good fight" and the school colours are red, black and yellow. Monkstown has a sister school in Cork, Christians
Christian Brothers College, Cork
Christian Brothers College, Cork is a fee-paying Catholic school under the trusteeship of the Edmund Rice Schools Trust in Cork, Ireland....
(CBC Cork) also founded by the Christian Brothers, both schools share the same colours of red, yellow and black and other traditions such as the motto. Recently Monkstown was 'twinned' with St. Patrick's College
St. Patrick`s College, Jaffna
St. Patrick’s College ) is a boys private school in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. It was founded in 1850 by Roman Catholic missionaries.-History:...
in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...
.
The school is to be re-built in the summer of
Beginnings- Eblana School
On 1 January 1856, the Christian Brothers opened a school at EblanaEblana
Eblana is the name of an ancient Irish settlement believed by some to have occupied the same site as the modern city of Dublin, to the extent that 19th-century scholarly writers such as Louis Agassiz used Eblana as a Latin equivalent for Dublin...
Avenue in Dún Laoghaire
Dún Laoghaire
Dún Laoghaire or Dún Laoire , sometimes anglicised as "Dunleary" , is a suburban seaside town in County Dublin, Ireland, about twelve kilometres south of Dublin city centre. It is the county town of Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County and a major port of entry from Great Britain...
(Kingstown as it was known then). The site was provided by Mr Charles Kennedy. Brother Alphonsus Hoope was appointed as superior of the school.
This was just ten years after the Great Famine, and emigration
Irish diaspora
thumb|Night Train with Reaper by London Irish artist [[Brian Whelan]] from the book Myth of Return, 2007The Irish diaspora consists of Irish emigrants and their descendants in countries such as the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, Argentina, New Zealand, Mexico, South Africa,...
was rife. The school was called St Michaels Christian Brothers School, and initially educated mainly poor boys from the area. Kingstown during the 19th century was rapidly expanding with the harbour town seeing the addition of the piers and the Dublin and Kingstown Railway
Dublin and Kingstown Railway
The Dublin and Kingstown Railway , which opened in 1834, was Ireland’s first railway. It linked Westland Row in Dublin with Kingstown Harbour’s West Pier in County Dublin.-History:...
opening 20 years before the school.
Hoope arranged for two rooms for teaching, which had to be expanded after three weeks to three due to demand. Within two years, a building housing 400 students was built on the site. The school was financed from "voluntary subscriptions, solicited and collected by the Brothers". The Brothers residence of the time was located behind the main school building. There were 6 Brothers living on the school grounds, a building separate from the main school block. The school premises was valued in 1859 at £60.
The Brothers continued to have a major role in the education system when Ireland gained independence. As Catholics became wealthier and put a higher premium on education many would choose such lifestyles and this posed a danger to traditional schools such as the Christian Brothers in Dun Laoghaire. A collegiate section was opened in the early 1930s to cope with the greater demand for Leaving Certificate education. Already the Holy Ghost order, the Jesuits and the Carmelites
Carmelites
The Order of the Brothers of Our Lady of Mount Carmel or Carmelites is a Catholic religious order perhaps founded in the 12th century on Mount Carmel, hence its name. However, historical records about its origin remain uncertain...
had opened fee paying schools in Dublin with sports like rugby to the forefront of the ethos. Rugby was made the school sport rather that the more normal Christian Brothers sporting pursuits in Gaelic Games (Gaelic Games was played at the new Eblana secondary school after the splitting of the school, however).
The school at Eblana prospered to an extent that it became impossible to accommodate both primary and secondary departments in the 19th century buildings. A new site was sought for part of the school.
Move to Monkstown Park
The Brothers sought a site for the new part of the school. Traditions were soon adopted from CBC Cork which had been existence since the early 20th century. In 1949 the Brothers purchased the nearby 22 acres (89,030.9 m²) estate of Monkstown Park, which had been most recently occupied by the Protestant Corrig School. In order to procure the grounds, the Brothers released lands at Rochestown Avenue to Dun Laoghaire Corporation which had previously been used as the schools playing pitches. Many local people wanted a public park to be maintained at the site.At that point the school, hitherto known as St. Michael's College, split into public and private schools, with the private part (the new CBC Monkstown, previous Christian Brothers Schools, Dun Laoghaire) moving and the public (the former CBS Eblana
CBS Eblana
CBS Eblana is the name by which a former Christian Brothers School at Eblana Avenue is commonly known. The school was located in Dun Laoghaire, Dublin in Ireland. It was a second level and primary school located from 1856 until 1992...
in Dun Laoghaire) remaining on the site. The secondary department, with the exception of the commercial stream, moved to the house at Monkstown in 1950, and extended the neo-classical house built by the historian Charles Haliday
Charles Haliday
Charles Haliday was an Irish historian and antiquary who made significant contributions to the study of the history of Dublin, being particularly interested in the Scandinavian antiquities of the city. He was born in Carrick-on-Suir in County Tipperary in 1789...
in 1843.
A past pupils union was established in the early 1950s. The Union helped established a Sociological Centre at the College during this time. In 1956 a special mass was celebrated for the first 100 years of the Dun Laoghaire Christian Brothers, attended by several leading figures in Ireland.
In 1964 a new concert hall and a further extension was opened on the site.
CBC abstained from joining the Free Education Scheme introduced by Donagh O'Malley in 1969, becoming one of the 56 secondary schools (8% of the total) in the country not funded by the Government.
Modern developments
In 1987 the school was further extended with a new administration building including new offices, a cafeteria, staff room and technology department. The latest addition was the Edmund RiceEdmund Ignatius Rice
Blessed Edmund Ignatius Rice , was a Roman Catholic missionary and educationalist. Edmund was the founder of two orders of religious brothers: the Congregation of Christian Brothers and the Presentation Brothers....
Oratory, which opened in 1994.
In 2000 the college celebrated its Golden Jubilee at Monkstown Park. The school year began with a ceremonial walk from the old Eblana school site to Monkstown Park. Events included a Jubilee Concert and the opening of a wall with the names of all the pupils from the time in Monkstown from 1950 onwards, attended by the President of Ireland.
There are currently plans to rebuild the school on its current site. This caused considerable controversy in 2005 in the national media when it was announced, as CBC would receive a portion of the costs of funding the building despite being a fee-paying school from the Irish state.
In 2007 the Christian Brothers decided to transfer the trusteeship of the school to the Edmund Rice Schools Trust along with 96 other Christian Brothers schools.
In 2009 construction of the new school began, scheduled to be completed in August 2011.
Buildings
The college is bordered by several historical sites. Carrickbrennan ChurchyardCarrickbrennan Churchyard
Carrickbrennan Churchyard located on Carrickbrennan Road, Monkstown, County Dublin, Ireland is a graveyard that can still be seen today, but is no longer in use. It is notable as the burial place of many people who perished in local maritime disasters...
is located to the north of the school on the border of the grounds and Monkstown Castle is adjacent to the school. The college is made up of three buildings interconnected. Charles Haliday's house built in 1843 is incorporated into the main school block. The facade of the building long portico of Corinthians columns
Corinthian order
The Corinthian order is one of the three principal classical orders of ancient Greek and Roman architecture. The other two are the Doric and Ionic. When classical architecture was revived during the Renaissance, two more orders were added to the canon, the Tuscan order and the Composite order...
remains intact and is a protected structure. The tower opposite the main building is also a protected structure. The administrative block was built in 1987 and also contains several classrooms. The Concert hall was built in the early 1960s.
The current re-building will terrace the new building into "the hill" and the current buildings are to be demolished with the protected structures and part of the old house retained as part of the development.
The grounds contain an athletics paddock and three rugby pitches. This includes the infamous gut which partly is a second entrance to the school, since shut.
Senior school curriculum
Part of the schools mission statement is striving for "academic excellence". Boys study for both the Junior CertificateJunior Certificate
The Junior Certificate is an educational qualification awarded in Ireland by the Department of Education to students who have successfully completed the junior cycle of secondary education, and achieved a minimum standard in their Junior Cert. examinations...
and later the Leaving Certificate
Leaving Certificate
The Leaving Certificate Examinations , commonly referred to as the Leaving Cert is the final examination in the Irish secondary school system. It takes a minimum of two years preparation, but an optional Transition Year means that for those students it takes place three years after the Junior...
. School hours are between 8:45 AM to 4 PM with a half day for sporting activities on Wednesdays at 1 PM. In addition sports activities sometimes take place after 4 PM and optional afternoon and night study is available.
The fourth year (Transition Year) includes courses in academic subjects, as well as such optional subjects and activities as: Japanese
Japanese language
is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...
, Sailing
Sailing
Sailing is the propulsion of a vehicle and the control of its movement with large foils called sails. By changing the rigging, rudder, and sometimes the keel or centre board, a sailor manages the force of the wind on the sails in order to move the boat relative to its surrounding medium and...
, Social work
Social work
Social Work is a professional and academic discipline that seeks to improve the quality of life and wellbeing of an individual, group, or community by intervening through research, policy, community organizing, direct practice, and teaching on behalf of those afflicted with poverty or any real or...
, Tourism
Tourism
Tourism is travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people "traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes".Tourism has become a...
and First aid
First aid
First aid is the provision of initial care for an illness or injury. It is usually performed by non-expert, but trained personnel to a sick or injured person until definitive medical treatment can be accessed. Certain self-limiting illnesses or minor injuries may not require further medical care...
. The Comenius project is also offered which is a project linking CBC with other schools around Europe. Transition Year classes won the Comortas Scannan TG4
TG4
TG4 is a public service broadcaster for Irish language speakers. The channel has been on-air since 31 October 1996 in the Republic of Ireland and since April 2005 in Northern Ireland....
in 2005 and were finalists in 2006, the 2005 group having their film represent Ireland in Italy in 2005.
Aside from the core languages of English and Irish
Irish language
Irish , also known as Irish Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family, originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people. Irish is now spoken as a first language by a minority of Irish people, as well as being a second language of a larger proportion of...
; Latin, Japanese, French, German and Spanish are taught. In addition to Business Studies for the Junior Cert; Economics
Economics
Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...
, Business
Business
A business is an organization engaged in the trade of goods, services, or both to consumers. Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, where most of them are privately owned and administered to earn profit to increase the wealth of their owners. Businesses may also be not-for-profit...
and Accounting are offered for the Leaving Cert. Mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
and Applied Mathematics
Applied mathematics
Applied mathematics is a branch of mathematics that concerns itself with mathematical methods that are typically used in science, engineering, business, and industry. Thus, "applied mathematics" is a mathematical science with specialized knowledge...
are taught. Physics
Physics
Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...
, Chemistry
Chemistry
Chemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds....
and Biology
Biology
Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. Biology is a vast subject containing many subdivisions, topics, and disciplines...
are offered as science subjects. Civics
Civics
Civics is the study of rights and duties of citizenship. In other words, it is the study of government with attention to the role of citizens ― as opposed to external factors ― in the operation and oversight of government....
, Geography
Geography
Geography is the science that studies the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth. A literal translation would be "to describe or write about the Earth". The first person to use the word "geography" was Eratosthenes...
, History
History
History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...
, Technical drawing
Technical drawing
Technical drawing, also known as drafting or draughting, is the act and discipline of composing plans that visually communicate how something functions or has to be constructed.Drafting is the language of industry....
, Art
Art
Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....
, Music
Music
Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...
, Computer
Computer
A computer is a programmable machine designed to sequentially and automatically carry out a sequence of arithmetic or logical operations. The particular sequence of operations can be changed readily, allowing the computer to solve more than one kind of problem...
s and Home Economics
Home Economics
Home economics is the profession and field of study that deals with the economics and management of the home and community...
are also offered.
The Department of Education
Department of Education and Science (Ireland)
The Department of Education and Skills is a department of the Government of Ireland. It is led by the Minister for Education and Skills who is assisted by two Ministers of State.-Departmental team:...
has released three subject inspection reports on the school; history, physics and technical drawing. The report on Technical Graphics praised the facilities and quality of the lessons observed. It did encourage however that the subject become a part of the school's Transistion Year programme. The report on history praised the strong take up of the subject for the Leaving Certificate and the quality of teaching.
In the 2004 Sunday Times Schools League Table, CBC was listed among the country's top twenty school, while in the Irish Times tables in 2006, the school was the top all boys school in Ireland (3rd overall).
Junior School
The Junior School consists of around 200 boys. There are 8 full-time teachers and one principal. Extra-curricular subjects are also taught such as Computers, French, Physical Education, Speech and Drama, Singing and Musical Appreciation and Arts and Crafts. There is also a part time remedial teacher. Tutors are available to take students studying German and Music and the school runs an activity club on Fridays.As an Independent school
Independent school
An independent school is a school that is independent in its finances and governance; it is not dependent upon national or local government for financing its operations, nor reliant on taxpayer contributions, and is instead funded by a combination of tuition charges, gifts, and in some cases the...
, it operates outside the auspices of the Department of Education, which does not control school hours, curriculum and activities.
Spiritual
Although the Christian Brothers have departed the faculty, Religious Education is still taught. It is offered for the Junior and Leaving Certificates (as an optional subject). Religion is also taken for those who do not choose to learn it as an exam subject in the Senior Cycle.The Edmund Rice Oratory is one of the school's latest additions. A school chaplain is available to the college.
Aid work
The Zambian Immersion Project is a senior cycle project where pupils fund raise and travel to ZambiaZambia
Zambia , officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. The neighbouring countries are the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia to the south, and Angola to the west....
and help in charity work. Others complete An Gaisce (Presidents Award) and the Edmund Rice
Edmund Ignatius Rice
Blessed Edmund Ignatius Rice , was a Roman Catholic missionary and educationalist. Edmund was the founder of two orders of religious brothers: the Congregation of Christian Brothers and the Presentation Brothers....
awards which contain significant social work.
The Junior School's 6th class raise money annually for the Chernobyl Children's Project (with their charity Children Helping Children), and culminate their fund raising in a business exhibition at the end of every year. In 2007 they raised €42,000 for the project. In 2008 the school started a new charity: the Edmund Rice's Children's Fund. This encourages a whole school approach.
Drama, college musical and music
CBC has the distinction of being the first school to ever perform in the national Theatre of Ireland, the Abbey TheatreAbbey Theatre
The Abbey Theatre , also known as the National Theatre of Ireland , is a theatre located in Dublin, Ireland. The Abbey first opened its doors to the public on 27 December 1904. Despite losing its original building to a fire in 1951, it has remained active to the present day...
in 1958. Class V performed Patrick Pearse
Patrick Pearse
Patrick Henry Pearse was an Irish teacher, barrister, poet, writer, nationalist and political activist who was one of the leaders of the Easter Rising in 1916...
's Íosagán under the directorship of Thomas MacAnna
Thomas MacAnna
Thomas MacAnna was a Tony Award winning theatre director and playwright.Born in Dundalk, he was educated at the College of Art in Dublin, worked as a customs officer 1945-47, and then at the Abbey Theatre as a producer of Gaelic plays, subsequently becoming Artistic Adviser to the Board in 1966,...
, a future Tony Award winner, who was the drama and elocution teacher in the school at the time. MacAnna also produced the early Gilbert and Sullivan
Gilbert and Sullivan
Gilbert and Sullivan refers to the Victorian-era theatrical partnership of the librettist W. S. Gilbert and the composer Arthur Sullivan . The two men collaborated on fourteen comic operas between 1871 and 1896, of which H.M.S...
opera performances at the school.
The annual school musical, a collaboration with the nearby girls school Loreto College, Foxrock
Loreto College, Foxrock
Loreto College, Foxrock is a voluntary fee paying Catholic Secondary School under the direction of the Sisters of Loreto in Dublin, Ireland.-History:...
has been a huge success. It has been running for 21 years and each respective transition year pupils participate, providing the student wishes to participate.
A fifth-year drama is also produced.
Debating
In 2011, CBC became the first school in the history of Leinster Schools' Debating Championships to win both the Individual and Team prizes, thus the school were Leinster's sole representatives at the All Ireland Schools' Debating Championship (Individual: Austin Conlon, Team: Kevin Dooney and Michael Barton). Conlon went on to win the Individual prize at the All Ireland Schools' Debating Championship at University College Cork whilst the Team of Dooney and Barton finished as runners up. Another team from CBC, Stephen Stack and Hugh Guidera, also represented Ireland at the Schools debating competition organised by the Oxford UnionOxford Union
The Oxford Union Society, commonly referred to simply as the Oxford Union, is a debating society in the city of Oxford, Britain, whose membership is drawn primarily but not exclusively from the University of Oxford...
at Oxford University.
Rugby
From the beginning, Rugby UnionRugby union
Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...
has been the main competitive team sport of the school. Rugby was played at the old Monkstown Park School (Corrig School) who won the Leinster Schools Rugby Senior Cup twice in the early 1900s.
The school's rugby team initially was CBC Dún Laoighaire before the move to the new school in Monkstown. CBC Monkstown won the Leinster Schools Rugby Senior Cup in 1976 and reached the final in 1984. The school won the League Cup at Junior Level in 1998 and 2004, reaching the final in 1997/98, 2000/01, 2007/08, 2008/09 and 2010/2011. The Senior Cup team played in the Senior league final in 2001, 2003, and 2008, winning the latter. On the five occasions the Senior team have played in the Vincent Murray Cup they won in 2003, 2005 and 2007 whilst losing the final in 2006 and 2010. CBC won the Powerade Leinster 'School of the Year' award in 2008.
CBC has produced a number of provincial and international rugby players including Paddy O'Donoghue (rugby)
Paddy O'Donoghue (rugby)
Paddy O'Donoghue is a former Irish Rugby International prop who also represented the Barbarians and was an administrator in Irish rugby. He played his club rugby for Bective Rangers, winning the Leinster Club Senior Cup in 1955 and 1956...
and Pat Casey
Pat Casey
Pat Casey is the head coach for the Oregon State Beavers baseball team. He is best known for winning the 2006 College World Series for the Beavers' first-ever baseball National Championship...
. Other rugby figures include the former President of the IRFU, John Lyons and the former international referee Donal Courtney
Donal Courtney
Donal Gerard Courtney is a former international rugby union referee. He officially retired from refereeing in 2007 but is still involved with the IRFU Refereeing Department and with the European Rugby Cup....
.
In 2008 the school undertook a tour of Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
and Uruguay
Uruguay
Uruguay ,officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay,sometimes the Eastern Republic of Uruguay; ) is a country in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to some 3.5 million people, of whom 1.8 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area...
playing games against a number of teams including Newman Club (rugby)
Newman Club (rugby)
Club Newman is a sports club, located in the city of Benavídez, Tigre Partido, Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina. The club is mostly known for its rugby union team, which currently plays in the first division of the URBA championship...
, a Christian Brothers school in Buenos Aires. Previous tours include Australia in 2001 and South Africa in 2005.
Athletics
The school is also involved in Athletics and Cross Country competitions. The school consistently produces medalists at All Ireland, Leinster, East Leinster and Edmund Rice Games level, both individual and at team level. The school has an athletics pavilion with a triple and high jump tack, a pole vault track, a discus facility and a hammer net.Gym and rowing
The Endall Gym has been extensively renovated in recent years and is a central location of sport and fitness in the school. Indoor rowing is also popular in itself and as a training method for rugby in the school's gym which has six rowing machines. CBC is the All Ireland Indoor rowing champion and sends participants to the British Indoor Rowing ChampionshipsBritish Indoor Rowing Championships
The British Indoor Rowing Championships is an indoor rowing event organised by Concept2. It first began in 1991 with the first event held in Henley-on-Thames attracting 200 competitors. Over the years it outgrew all of its venues and has been held since 2000 at the National Indoor Arena in...
.
Other sports
Other sports taken include: GolfGolf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
, Swimming
Swimming (sport)
Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...
, Tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
, Sailing
Sailing
Sailing is the propulsion of a vehicle and the control of its movement with large foils called sails. By changing the rigging, rudder, and sometimes the keel or centre board, a sailor manages the force of the wind on the sails in order to move the boat relative to its surrounding medium and...
, Orienteering
Orienteering
Orienteering is a family of sports that requires navigational skills using a map and compass to navigate from point to point in diverse and usually unfamiliar terrain, and normally moving at speed. Participants are given a topographical map, usually a specially prepared orienteering map, which they...
, scrabble
Scrabble
Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by forming words from individual lettered tiles on a game board marked with a 15-by-15 grid. The words are formed across and down in crossword fashion and must appear in a standard dictionary. Official reference works provide a list...
, horse-riding, squash
Squash (sport)
Squash is a high-speed racquet sport played by two players in a four-walled court with a small, hollow rubber ball...
and Badminton
Badminton
Badminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players or two opposing pairs , who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net. Players score points by striking a shuttlecock with their racquet so that it passes over the net and lands in their...
.
Golf is played in Leopardstown Golf Course and the school enters teams every year at provincial level.
The school has two tennis courts (neither of which have nets or chalk outlines) but in recent years the school has used Monkstown Tennis Club opposite the school. The school tennis team reached the Semi Finals of the Leinster Championships in 2009.
Swimming is undertaken at Monkstown Blue Pool.
The school uses the facilities at Dun Laoghaire for sailing which is a part of the Transition year programme. The school came third in the Leinster Schools Sailing Championships in 2009.
Cricket in CBC
An effort in start a cricket team in Monkstown in the early 1950s proved to be difficult. Although playing rugby was deemed as "maverick" for a Christian Brothers school, the playing of cricket was unpalatable to a number of Christian Brothers. The efforts to start a cricket team was chronicled on the March 27 edition of RTÉ's Sunday Miscellany as "Cricket in the Borough" by past pupil Louis Brennan.Past pupils
The Past Pupils Union of the Christian Brothers College, Monkstown and Dun Laoighaire has been active since the mid 1950s. The CBC Monkstown PPU hosts several annual events.Notable past pupils from the Dun Laoghaire and Monkstown schools include:
Arts and Entertainment
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, musician, founded the The DublinersThe DublinersThe Dubliners are an Irish folk band founded in 1962.-Formation and history:The Dubliners, initially known as "The Ronnie Drew Ballad Group", formed in 1962 and made a name for themselves playing regularly in O'Donoghue's Pub in Dublin... - Dan O'HerlihyDan O'HerlihyDaniel O'Herlihy was an Oscar nominated Irish film actor.-Early life:O'Herlihy was born in Wexford, Ireland in 1919. His family moved to Dublin at a young age...
, Academy Award Nominated Actor - Vincent DowlingVincent DowlingVincent Gerard Dowling is an Emmy Award winning Irish actor and director.He was formerly married to the late Irish actress, Brenda Doyle...
, stage and television director - Danny RyanThe ThrillsThe Thrills are an Irish rock band, formed in 2001 in Dublin, Ireland. The band was founded by lead vocalist Conor Deasy and guitarist Daniel Ryan, guitarist and bass player Padraic McMahon, pianist Kevin Horan and drummer Ben Carrigan. Their big break came with their debut album, So Much for the...
, Lead Guitarist with The ThrillsThe ThrillsThe Thrills are an Irish rock band, formed in 2001 in Dublin, Ireland. The band was founded by lead vocalist Conor Deasy and guitarist Daniel Ryan, guitarist and bass player Padraic McMahon, pianist Kevin Horan and drummer Ben Carrigan. Their big break came with their debut album, So Much for the... - Bernard FarrellBernard FarrellBernard Farrell is an Irish dramatist, best known for his play I Do Not Like Thee, Doctor Fell, which parodies American psychobabble and the Irish reaction thereto....
, playwright and television dramatist - Jim NugentThe Colm & Jim-Jim Breakfast ShowThe Colm & Jim-Jim Breakfast Show was an Irish breakfast radio show, broadcast weekdays on RTÉ 2fm. The show, hosted by Colm Hayes and Jim-Jim Nugent, began broadcasting in March 2007 when the duo moved from rival station FM104....
, Irish national radio RTÉ 2fmRTÉ 2fmRTÉ 2fm, or 2FM as it is more commonly referred to, is Raidió Teilifís Éireann's second national radio station. It broadcasts popular music programming aimed at a young Irish audience.- History :...
and RTÉRTERTÉ is the abbreviation for Raidió Teilifís Éireann, the public broadcasting service of the Republic of Ireland.RTE may also refer to:* Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, 25th Prime Minister of Turkey...
television presenter (The Colm & Jim-Jim Breakfast ShowThe Colm & Jim-Jim Breakfast ShowThe Colm & Jim-Jim Breakfast Show was an Irish breakfast radio show, broadcast weekdays on RTÉ 2fm. The show, hosted by Colm Hayes and Jim-Jim Nugent, began broadcasting in March 2007 when the duo moved from rival station FM104....
) - Dermot O'NeillDermot O'Neill (gardener)Dermot O'Neill is a well known Irish gardener and editor of Garden Heaven magazine, who has appeared on many radio and television programmes for both RTÉ and the BBC Northern Ireland and has contributed regular columns for the RTÉ Guide and numerous Irish newspapers and magazines including The...
, gardener and broadcaster - Dave HingertyDave HingertyDave Hingerty is an Irish drummer. He is the former drummer of The Frames and has played with and recorded with a number of other acts including Josh Ritter, who he performed with on several albums.-Discophraphy:* Hello Starling - Josh Ritter...
, former drummer with The FramesThe FramesThe Frames are an Irish band based in Dublin. Founded in 1990 by Glen Hansard, the band has been influential in the Dublin rock music scene. The group has released six albums... - Jonathan RyanJonathan Ryan (Actor)-Biography:As a pupil at CBC Monkstown in 1963, Jonathan performed rhythm guitar and vocals in a covers band known as Rootzgroop, whose lineup later included Paul Brady....
, actor - Sheamus Smith, former Irish film censor
- Tómas MacAnnaThomas MacAnnaThomas MacAnna was a Tony Award winning theatre director and playwright.Born in Dundalk, he was educated at the College of Art in Dublin, worked as a customs officer 1945-47, and then at the Abbey Theatre as a producer of Gaelic plays, subsequently becoming Artistic Adviser to the Board in 1966,...
(teacher), Tony AwardTony AwardThe Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway...
winning Abbey Theatre director
Humanitarian
- John O'Shea (humanitarian)John O'Shea (humanitarian)John O'Shea is founder and CEO of GOAL, an Irish non-governmental organization devoted to assisting the poorest of the poor. His first career was as a sports journalist and GOAL retains significant links to the sporting community, especially in Ireland.O'Shea was shortlisted in the top 40 of 2010...
, founder and CEO of International humanitarian organization GOAL - Fr. Shay CullenShay CullenFather Shay Cullen is an Irish missionary priest and the founder of the PREDA Foundation. He is a member of the Missionary Society of St. Columban...
, founder of the Preda FoundationPREDA FoundationPeople’s Recovery Empowerment Development Assistance or Preda is a charitable organization that was founded in Olongapo City, Philippines in 1974...
Sport
- Joe Brady, former Irish rugby international
- Patrick Casey (rugby player)Patrick Casey (rugby player)Patrick Joseph Casey , commonly called Pat Casey, was an Ireland rugby union player.He played for Lansdowne Football Club and provincially for Leinster. He made his international debut on January 16 1963 against France...
, former Irish rugby international - Paddy O'Donoghue (rugby)Paddy O'Donoghue (rugby)Paddy O'Donoghue is a former Irish Rugby International prop who also represented the Barbarians and was an administrator in Irish rugby. He played his club rugby for Bective Rangers, winning the Leinster Club Senior Cup in 1955 and 1956...
, former Irish International, former Treasurer of the IRFU - Noel Feddis, former Irish rugby International
- Peter McKenna (rugby)Peter McKenna (rugby)Peter McKenna is a former Irish Rugby International, author, broadcaster and solicitor.-Early life:McKenna was educated at C.B.C. Monkstown where he played rugby for the school, representing Leinster Schools in 1991 and 1992. He went on to study law in University College Dublin and began playing...
, former Irish Rugby InternationalIreland national rugby union teamThe Ireland national rugby union team represents the island of Ireland in rugby union. The team competes annually in the Six Nations Championship and every four years in the Rugby World Cup, where they reached the quarter-final stage in all but two competitions The Ireland national rugby union... - Donal CourtneyDonal CourtneyDonal Gerard Courtney is a former international rugby union referee. He officially retired from refereeing in 2007 but is still involved with the IRFU Refereeing Department and with the European Rugby Cup....
, former International Rugby BoardInternational Rugby BoardThe International Rugby Board is the governing body for the sport of rugby union. It was founded in 1886 as the International Rugby Football Board by the unions of Scotland, Wales and Ireland. England refused to join until 1890. The International Rugby Football Board changed its name to the...
referee - Jerome J Counihan, former President Association of Referees Leinster Branch
- John Lyons, President of the IRFU 2008/2009
- John Feehan, former Leinster player and current CEO of the Six Nations ChampionshipSix Nations ChampionshipThe Six Nations Championship is an annual international rugby union competition involving six European sides: England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales....
, the British and Irish LionsBritish and Irish LionsThe British and Irish Lions is a rugby union team made up of players from England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales...
and the Magners League - Brian KavanaghHorse Racing IrelandHorse Racing Ireland is the governing body of horse racing on the island of Ireland. Like most other sports, horse racing is run on an All Ireland basis, so Horse Racing Ireland is responsible for racing in both the Republic of Ireland, which has 25 racecourses, and in Northern Ireland, which has...
, CEO of Horse Racing IrelandHorse Racing IrelandHorse Racing Ireland is the governing body of horse racing on the island of Ireland. Like most other sports, horse racing is run on an All Ireland basis, so Horse Racing Ireland is responsible for racing in both the Republic of Ireland, which has 25 racecourses, and in Northern Ireland, which has... - Michael FitzsimonsMichael FitzsimonsMichael Fitzsimons is an Irish Gaelic footballer from Dublin who plays for Cuala CLG in Dalkey. Cuala is a traditional hurling stronghold in Dublin and he is only the second player from Cuala to play intercounty football along with the late Mick Holden....
, current corner back for the Dublin Gaelic football team and Cuala CLGCuala CLGCuala is a Dublin GAA club based in a sports and social centre in Dalkey which is situated in the south of Dublin, Ireland. Cuala has playing facilities in Dalkey, Glenageary, Meadow Vale/Clonkeen Park, Shankill and Sallynoggin...
in DalkeyDalkeyDalkey is suburb of Dublin and seaside resort in Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County, Ireland. It was founded as a Viking settlement and became an important port during the Middle Ages. According to John Clyn, it was one of the ports through which the plague entered Ireland in the mid-14th century...
Winner of an All-Ireland SFC Championship medal in 2011. - Andy KeoghAndy KeoghAndrew Declan "Andy" Keogh is a Republic of Ireland International footballer who plays as a striker. He can also play as a winger. He is currently on loan at Championship side Leeds United from Premier League club Wolverhampton Wanderers...
, Republic of Ireland soccer internationalRepublic of Ireland national football teamThe Republic of Ireland national football team represents Ireland in association football. It is run by the Football Association of Ireland and currently plays home fixtures at Aviva Stadium in Dublin, which opened in May 2010.... - Peter FarrellPeter FarrellPeter Desmond Farrell was an Irish footballer who played as an a right-half for, among others, Shamrock Rovers, Everton and Tranmere Rovers. As an international, Farrell also played for both Ireland teams - the FAI XI and the IFA XI...
, won a total of 35 caps for Ireland for the FAI XI and IFA XI in soccer
Politics, legal and diplomats
- Seán BarrettSeán Barrett (Fine Gael)Seán Barrett is an Irish Fine Gael politician who has been Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann since March 2011. He served as Minister for Defence from 1995 to 1997, and later he was party spokesperson on Foreign Affairs. He is a Teachta Dála for the Dún Laoghaire constituency.- Early life :He was...
, Fine GaelFine GaelFine Gael is a centre-right to centrist political party in the Republic of Ireland. It is the single largest party in Ireland in the Oireachtas, in local government, and in terms of Members of the European Parliament. The party has a membership of over 35,000...
Teachta DálaTeachta DálaA Teachta Dála , usually abbreviated as TD in English, is a member of Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Oireachtas . It is the equivalent of terms such as "Member of Parliament" or "deputy" used in other states. The official translation of the term is "Deputy to the Dáil", though a more literal...
(TD), Ceann ComhairleCeann ComhairleThe Ceann Comhairle is the chairman of Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Oireachtas of Ireland. The person who holds the position is elected by members of the Dáil from among their number in the first session after each general election...
(Chairman) of Dáil ÉireannDáil ÉireannDáil Éireann is the lower house, but principal chamber, of the Oireachtas , which also includes the President of Ireland and Seanad Éireann . It is directly elected at least once in every five years under the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote...
(the lower house of the Irish parliamentOireachtasThe Oireachtas , sometimes referred to as Oireachtas Éireann, is the "national parliament" or legislature of Ireland. The Oireachtas consists of:*The President of Ireland*The two Houses of the Oireachtas :**Dáil Éireann...
) and former cabinet minister - Professor James DoogeJames DoogeJames Clement Dooge was an Irish politician, engineer, climatologist, hydrologist and academic. Dooge had a profound effect on the debate on climate change, in the world of hydrology and in politics in the formation of the European Union.Dooge lived a multifaceted existence with his roles...
, MRIARoyal Irish AcademyThe Royal Irish Academy , based in Dublin, is an all-Ireland, independent, academic body that promotes study and excellence in the sciences, humanities and social sciences. It is one of Ireland's premier learned societies and cultural institutions and currently has around 420 Members, elected in...
, FREng, Fine Gael Senator, former Minister for Foreign Affairs, Chairman of the Seanad, noted engineering academic, hydrologist and a had a key role in the debate on climate change and the development of the European UnionEuropean UnionThe European Union is an economic and political union of 27 independent member states which are located primarily in Europe. The EU traces its origins from the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Economic Community , formed by six countries in 1958... - HE Dr. Richard O'Brien, Irish Ambassador to SingaporeSingaporeSingapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
- HE Brendan Lyons Former Irish Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Singapore and President of the Penang Medical CollegePenang Medical CollegePenang Medical College is a partnership in medical education between the Penang State Government and the Irish Medical Colleges of the National University of Ireland : the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and the University College Dublin...
. - James B. LynchJames B. LynchJames B. Lynch was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician, who served for 16 years as a Teachta Dála before being elected as a Senator for three years....
, Fianna Fáil member of the Dáil and Senator. - Seamus CostelloSeamus CostelloSeamus Costello was a leader of Official Sinn Féin and the Official Irish Republican Army and latterly of the Irish Republican Socialist Party and the Irish National Liberation Army ....
, assassinated Republican Socialist who founded the Irish National Liberation ArmyIrish National Liberation ArmyThe Irish National Liberation Army or INLA is an Irish republican socialist paramilitary group that was formed on 8 December 1974. Its goal is to remove Northern Ireland from the United Kingdom and create a socialist united Ireland.... - Niall McCarthyNiall McCarthy (judge)Niall McCarthy was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ireland and a barrister.-Early life:His father was a district court judge. Educated at Clongowes Wood College, the Christian Brothers in Dun Laoghaire and University College Dublin, he was called to the Bar in 1945 and the inner Bar in 1959...
, former Judge of the Irish Supreme Court - Cahir DavittCahir DavittCahir Davitt was an Irish Judge.-Youth:He was born in County Dublin one 15 August 1894 as the second son of the Fenian and Land Leaguer Michael Davitt...
, former President of the High CourtHigh Court of JusticeThe High Court of Justice is, together with the Court of Appeal and the Crown Court, one of the Senior Courts of England and Wales...
Business
- Brian MacCabaBrian MacCabaBrian MacCaba is a multi-millionaire businessman born and raised in Ireland but now primarily based in London and Jerusalem. Although he made his fortune in the e-commerce sector through his company Cognotec, he is perhaps best known for his part in the infamous 'Indecent Proposal' libel case...
, founder and CEO of Cognotec - Frank McCabeFrank McCabe (business)Frank McCabe is an Irish business executive who spent over 40 years in the semiconductor business in prominent roles. He also spent several years as a member of various international Board of Directors and semi state boards in Ireland....
, former Vice President of Intel CorporationIntel CorporationIntel Corporation is an American multinational semiconductor chip maker corporation headquartered in Santa Clara, California, United States and the world's largest semiconductor chip maker, based on revenue. It is the inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors, the processors found in most...
and Managing Director of Intel IrelandIntel IrelandIntel Irelands parent company - the giant U.S. based Intel microprocessor business - is a quoted company trading on the NASDAQ exchange. Intel decided in 1989 to build its European manufacturing operations in Leixlip, County Kildare, and formed Intel Ireland to be the holding company. The...
's operations - Adrian Hegarty, group CEO of Friends First, formerly CEO of ACCBankACCBankACCBank plc is a commercial bank in Ireland that focuses on agriculture and SME lending. The bank has its origins in the Agricultural Credit Corporation set up in 1927 in the Irish Free State to finance agriculture, the bank was successful and lead to the creation of the Industrial Credit Company...
and chairman of Interamerican (Greece) - Michael Duffy, CEO of the Royal Dublin SocietyRoyal Dublin SocietyThe Royal Dublin Society was founded on 25 June 1731 to "to promote and develop agriculture, arts, industry, and science in Ireland". The RDS is synonymous with its main premises in Ballsbridge in Dublin, Ireland...
Academia and Journalistic
- Tim Pat CooganTim Pat CooganTimothy Patrick Coogan is an Irish historical writer, broadcaster and newspaper columnist. He served as editor of the Irish Press newspaper from 1968 to 1987...
, former editor of the Irish Press and historian - Shane KennyShane KennyShane Kenny is an Irish journalist and former government press officer who has broadcast for RTÉ, the BBC and the US ABC network. He has worked as a journalist for 30 years. From 1994 to 1997, he served as Ireland's Government Press Secretary...
, journalist and broadcaster - John Ryan (publisher)John Ryan (publisher)John Ryan is an Irish former publishing tycoon-turned comic actor/writer. He is best known for his publishing empire which included the magazine New York Dog and the website blogorrah.com, he did achieve success with magazines such as VIP with former business partner, Michael O'Doherty...
, publisher, editor of MagillMagillMagill was an Irish politics and current affairs magazine founded by Vincent Browne and others in 1977. Magill was widely perceived as groundbreaking, specialising in in-depth investigative articles and colourful reportage by journalists such as Eamonn McCann and Gene Kerrigan...
, war correspondent - Mark BrennockMark BrennockMark Brennock is an Irish journalist and Public Relations director. He used to work for The Irish Times.He was educated in University College Dublin and Dublin City University . Until 2006, he served as Chief Political Correspondent for The Irish Times, a daily broadsheet in Ireland...
, former Chief Political Correspondent of The Irish TimesThe Irish TimesThe Irish Times is an Irish daily broadsheet newspaper launched on 29 March 1859. The editor is Kevin O'Sullivan who succeeded Geraldine Kennedy in 2011; the deputy editor is Paul O'Neill. The Irish Times is considered to be Ireland's newspaper of record, and is published every day except Sundays... - Professor Ronan FanningRonan FanningProfessor Ronan Fanning, MRIA, is an Irish historian. He is Professor emeritus of Modern History at University College Dublin and Director of Archives at the School of History and Archives . A member of the Royal Irish Academy, he is a member of the board of the Directory of Irish Biography.and the...
, Professor Emeritus of Modern History at University College DublinUniversity College DublinUniversity College Dublin ) - formally known as University College Dublin - National University of Ireland, Dublin is the Republic of Ireland's largest, and Ireland's second largest, university, with over 1,300 faculty and 17,000 students... - Professor Tom Keane, Professor of OncologyOncologyOncology is a branch of medicine that deals with cancer...
at the University of British ColumbiaUniversity of British ColumbiaThe University of British Columbia is a public research university. UBC’s two main campuses are situated in Vancouver and in Kelowna in the Okanagan Valley...
, former head of the BC Cancer AgencyBC Cancer AgencyThe BC Cancer Agency is part of the Provincial Health Services Authority in British Columbia, Canada.-Mission:The Agency has a three-part mission:* To reduce the incidence of cancer.* To reduce the mortality rate of people with cancer....
and Director of the Irish Cancer Control Programme - Professor Ciaran Benson, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at University College DublinUniversity College DublinUniversity College Dublin ) - formally known as University College Dublin - National University of Ireland, Dublin is the Republic of Ireland's largest, and Ireland's second largest, university, with over 1,300 faculty and 17,000 students...
and former Chair of the Arts Council of IrelandArts Council of IrelandThe Arts Council of Ireland was founded in 1951 by the Government of Ireland to encourage interest in Irish art and channel to funding from the state to Irish artists and arts organisations...
In popular culture
- CBC has been referenced in the popular satire of South Dublin "culture", the series of books; Ross O'Carroll Kelly. In Ross O'Carroll-Kelly's Guide to (South) Dublin: How To Get By On, Like, €10,000 A DayRoss O'Carroll-Kelly's Guide to (South) Dublin: How To Get By On, Like, €10,000 A DayRoss O'Carroll-Kelly's Guide to Dublin: How To Get By On, Like, €10,000 A Day is a 2008 faux-travel guide by Irish journalist and author Paul Howard, as part of the Ross O'Carroll-Kelly series...
, the school is given a section in the book which slates the school's rugby performances but notes the success of debating in the school and the popularity of Irish names. Past pupil Rory O'Connor plays the character in the stage production.
See also
- Christian BrothersCongregation of Christian BrothersThe Congregation of Christian Brothers is a worldwide religious community within the Catholic Church, founded by Blessed Edmund Rice. The Christian Brothers, as they are commonly known, chiefly work for the evangelisation and education of youth, but are involved in many ministries, especially with...
- Christian Brothers College, CorkChristian Brothers College, CorkChristian Brothers College, Cork is a fee-paying Catholic school under the trusteeship of the Edmund Rice Schools Trust in Cork, Ireland....
- CBS EblanaCBS EblanaCBS Eblana is the name by which a former Christian Brothers School at Eblana Avenue is commonly known. The school was located in Dun Laoghaire, Dublin in Ireland. It was a second level and primary school located from 1856 until 1992...