Saint Mary's College C.S.Sp. (Congregatio Sancti Spiritus) is a voluntary boys' primary and secondary school run by the Congregation of the Holy Spirit and located in Rathmines, Dublin, Ireland. The school was founded in 1890, closed in 1916, and then reopened in 1926 (from 1917 until 1926 the St. Mary's operated as a House of Philosophy for the Spiritans, before it moved to Blackrock.). The school colours are blue and white.
Notable past pupils
Arts and media
Vincent Dowling – Irish-American director
Frank Fitzgibbon - editor of The Sunday Times Irish edition
Larry Gogan – broadcaster
Ulick O'Connor — writer, historian and critic
Conor McKenna – Irish comedian, member of Foil Arms and Hog
Diyu Daniel Wu - lead actor in Yu Ming is Ainm Dom
Law
Peter Charleton — Judge of the Supreme Court of Ireland
Nicholas Kearns – Former President of the High Court of Ireland
Tom O'Higgins – Former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
Brian O'Moore — Judge of the High Court
Politics
Kevin Barry (briefly) – Irish republican (executed in 1920) Eoin Ryan – former MEP for Dublin
Sports
Paul Dean – Former Irish and Lions rugby player
Gareth Delany — Irish cricketer
Denis Hickie – Former Leinster, Irish and Lions rugby player
Shane Jennings – Former Leinster, Leicester tigers, barbarians and Irish rugby player Kieran Lewis – Former leinster, Munster and irish Rugby player Darragh MacAnthony – Chairman of Peterborough United FC Ronan McCormack – Former Leinster and UCD Rugby player Jack McGrath – Leinster, Ulster, Irish and lions Rugby player Rodney O'Donnell – Former Leinster, Irish and Lions rugby player Johnny Sexton – Leinster, racing 92, Irish and Lions rugby player Tony Ward – Former Irish and Lions rugby player and League of Ireland footballer. Only person to win in Rugby & FAI Championships Darragh Fanning — Former Leinster and Connaught Rugby player Declan Fanning — Former Leinster Rugby Player Sean Lynch – Former Leinster, Irish & BILs rugby player
Other
Peter Boylan — Former Master of the National Maternity Hospital
Frs. Tom and Ernest Farrell – Founders of the Catholic Boy Scouts of Ireland in 1927 Fergal Keane - news correspondent and author Thomas Lynch (psychiatrist) – first professor of psychiatry at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland David O'Sullivan — Former Ambassador of the European Union to the United States of America John Mark Redmond – cardiothoracic surgeon and businessperson
Notable staff
Éamon de Valera – Taoiseach and former president, taught at St. Mary's for a short time in 1915 as a mathematics professor
Sister schools
The following schools were also founded by the Holy Ghost Fathers in Ireland:
Blackrock College
Rockwell College
St. Michael's College
Templeogue College
St. Mary's College Rugby Club
Saint Mary's College C.S.Sp. is directly associated with the St. Mary's College Rugby Club located in Templeogue. The club has been home to some of Leinster and Ireland's greatest rugby players.
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Educational institutions established in 1890
Spiritan schools
Private schools in the Republic of Ireland
Catholic secondary schools in the Republic of Ireland
Boys' schools in the Republic of Ireland
Secondary schools in Dublin (city) Catholic primary schools in the Republic of Ireland Primary schools in Dublin (city) 1890 establishments in Ireland