Rockwell College

























































Rockwell College
Coláiste Charraig an Tobair

Location

Cashel, County Tipperary


Republic of Ireland

Information
Type
Independent
day and boarding school
Motto
Inter Mutanda Constantia
("Constancy in the midst of change")
Established 1864
President Fr. Jack Meade, C.S.Sp.
Principal Ms. Audrey O’Byrne[1]
Years offered 1st - 7th
Gender Male and Female
Age 12 to 19
Number of students 500
Colour(s) Blue and White
Religious compiliation
Roman Catholicism (Spiritans)
Website www.rockwellcollege.ie

Rockwell College, founded in 1864, is an independent day and boarding Catholic secondary school near Cashel, County Tipperary in Ireland.


The school has a rugby tradition and has won the Munster Schools Senior Cup 26 times and the Munster Schools Junior Cup 19 times. Rockwell is run by the Spiritans. Its list of former pupils and teachers includes two Presidents of Ireland.




Contents






  • 1 Sister schools


  • 2 Notable past pupils


    • 2.1 Politics


    • 2.2 Legal


    • 2.3 Business


    • 2.4 Sport


    • 2.5 Clergy


    • 2.6 Others




  • 3 References


  • 4 External links





Sister schools


  • Blackrock College

  • St Michael's College, Dublin

  • St Mary's College, Dublin


Notable past pupils



Politics




  • Éamon de Valera, Taoiseach and President of Ireland, was a mathematics teacher at the school.


  • Michael Ahern, former Junior Minister for Industry and Commerce and currently TD for Cork East

  • Dr Henry Barniville, Senator and Professor of Anatomy in University College Dublin


  • Andrew Boylan, former Fine Gael TD for Cavan–Monaghan


  • Ruairí Brugha, Fianna Fáil TD, Senator and MEP

  • Dr Patrick Hillery, President of Ireland 1976-1990

  • Dr Maurice Manning, Chancellor of National University of Ireland, former Fine Gael Senator and President of the Irish Human Rights Commission


  • Enda Marren, Fine Gael trustee and Member of Irish Council of State


  • Seán McCarthy, former Minister of State for Finance and Technology


  • William Quirke, former Fianna Fáil Senator and Tipperary IRA leader during the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War.


  • Thomas Walsh, former Fianna Fáil TD for Carlow–Kilkenny



Legal




  • Fionán Lynch, former Circuit Court Judge and Deputy Leader of Fine Gael

  • Mr Justice John L. Murray, former Chief Justice of Ireland, former judge of the Irish Supreme Court, former judge of the European Court of Justice, former Attorney General of Ireland, and current Chancellor of the University of Limerick.


  • Sean Whelan, BL and former Irish Ambassador to Turkey



Business




  • Richie Boucher, CEO of the Bank of Ireland


  • Brody Sweeney, CEO of O'Briens Irish Sandwich Bars and Fine Gael candidate in 2007 election



Sport




  • Patrick Butler, rugby player


  • Jack Clarke, footballer


  • Michael Dargan, cricketer and rugby player


  • Willie Duggan, rugby international


  • Denis Fogarty, rugby player


  • John Fogarty, rugby international


  • Gary Halpin, rugby international


  • Denis Leamy, rugby international


  • Pat McGrath, hurler


  • Paul McNaughton, currently manager of the Irish rugby team


  • Mark Melbourne, rugby player


  • Walter Swinburn, jockey, who won 8 British Classics, including the 1981 Derby with Shergar


  • Diarmuid Barron,rugby player



Clergy



  • Cardinal Michael Browne, O.P.

  • Monsignor Pádraig de Brún, former President of National University of Ireland, Galway

  • Fr Denis Fahey

  • Bishop Henry Aloysius Gogarty C.S.Sp.

  • Fr Aengus Finucane, former Chief Executive of Concern Worldwide, was a teacher



Others



  • Professor John J. Collins, Biblical scholar


  • John M. Feehan, author and publisher


  • Thomas MacDonagh - poet, teacher and co-leader of 1916 Rising, for which he was executed.

  • Lieut. General Colm Mangan - former Chief of Staff of the Irish Defence Forces,


  • Pádraic Ó Conaire, writer


  • Liam O'Flaherty, writer


  • Kevin Roche, architect


  • Gabriel Rosenstock, writer



References





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External links



  • Rockwell College

  • Rockwell College Union




Coordinates: 52°27′33″N 7°53′37″W / 52.4592°N 7.8936°W / 52.4592; -7.8936










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