Schools and colleges

The tradition of Jesuit education in Galway is a long and varied one, not only in the variety of place and time, but also in its attempts to meet the challenges of the evangelisation in different decades.

Crescent College Comprehensive in Dooradoyle, Limerick incorporates the characteristics of Jesuit Education. It seeks to develop fully each students’ religious, moral, social, intellectual, physical and cultural sensibilities. As an important means of doing this the school strives to create a strong sense of community between parents, students and teachers. The…

The College is a Catholic school under the trusteeship of the Society of Jesus.  Set in the centre of Dublin city, it continues today a tradition of over 170 years in the Jesuit approach to education. The school is fee-paying but provides a scholarship scheme, independently funded, out of a…

Gonzaga College was founded in 1950 as a day school for boys under the direction of the Society of Jesus. At present there are five hundred and twenty boys on the Gonzaga College rolls. The objectives of Gonzaga include the formation of young adults who will be capable of living…

On 18 May 1814 Clongowes Wood College, received its first pupil, James MacLorinan, of Dublin.  His parents were drapers. The college’s Mission Statement speaks of educating our pupils ‘according to the best traditions and highest standards of Jesuit schooling and the values of the Gospel’.  Our aim is ‘to create…

Founded in 1958 by the Irish Jesuits, St. Declan’s School, with the endorsement and co-operation of the Department of Education and Science, offers a specialised educational service to children who for personal or emotional reasons are achieving below their potential in mainstream primary schooling. The school strives to create a supportive…