Pictorial history of St. Brendan’s College unveiled

from KILLARNEY ADVERTISER 19 MAY 2023

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On Wednesday, last week St. Brendan’s College played host to a wonderful occasion when current teacher, Michael Leahy and past teachers, Billy Condon and Denis O’Donoghue presented an archive of visual and written material, photographs, articles and jerseys to

Ms. Lorna Larkin, Chairperson of our Board of Management.

Over a ten-year period Mike and Billy gathered, collated and catalogued a photographic collection of school images stretching back to the 19th century. These images – in their hundreds – are a compendium of life in the College since its foundation.

Denis O’Donoghue began to research the past presidents of the school in the late 1990s.

This initial research led to a detailed document on the social history of the school from the 1850’s through to the 1970s.

They are a rich and valuable storehouse of the school’s traditions and storied past and a treasure throve for the curious past pupil, the historian or indeed our future students and teachers. The school hopes to place the archive on permanent display in the near future.

Patron Saint of computer coders dedicated at the Friary

A new shrine dedicated to Blessed Carlo Acutis has been installed in the Friary church.

Carlo was born in London. His Italian parents moved back to Italy, to Milan when he was a child.

Carlo, an amateur website designer, is best known for documenting Eucharistic miracles around the word and cataloguing them onto a website which he created before his death from leukaemia in

October 2006.

“Blessed Carlo was beatified in Assisi in October 2020 on behalf of Pope Francis. He is the patron of youth and Computer Programmers. We pray that he will soon be canonised. Perhaps you might encourage young people to come pray and venerate his image,” Brother Lynch told the Killarney Advertiser.

“He had a great love for St Francis of Assisi and his tomb is in the church of Santa Maria Maggiore, Assisi.”

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