Rockwell College


Rockwell College, founded in 1864, is a voluntary 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 20 times with 22 full Irish internationals. Rockwell is run by the Spiritans. Its list of former pupils and teachers includes two Presidents of Ireland.

History

Rockwell College was founded in 1864 by two Spiritan priests to provide education to the sons of Roman Catholics during a time when Penal Laws were still in place against the Catholic majority in Ireland.
Rockwell College played an important role in the development of the Irish State in the several prominent figures of the Irish Revolutionary period taught at or attended the school. Éamon de Valera taught mathematics there as a young teacher and fellow 1916 Proclamation signatory Thomas MacDonagh attended as a pupil. In 1964, as part of the centenary celebrations President Éamon de Valera returned to the school, 60 years after he taught there.
In 1997, Pat O'Sullivan became Rockwell's first lay principal, and in 2012 Audrey O'Byrne became the college's first female principal.

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