Qualla: Coláiste Iognáid https://qualla.com/colaiste-iognaid en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/x/colaiste-iognaid-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Coláiste Iognáid https://qualla.com/colaiste-iognaid Coláiste Iognáid: Introduction https://qualla.com/colaiste-iognaid/ Photo credit MarkusMark, CC BY-SA 3.0. The school was founded in 1645, in the middle of the wars and confiscations that defined seventeenth-century Ireland. Edmund Kirwan paid for the first building. The Jesuits had been working in Galway since 1620 with what the order's own histories politely call 'some involuntary intermissions' - meaning the periods when penal laws made Catholic teaching illegal and the priests had to scatter. Coláiste Iognáid endured. Today the school stands on Sea Road in Galway, bilingual, co-educational, non-fee-paying, six hundred students, no uniforms, and a list of past pupils that runs from Olympic medallists to convicted Nazi propagandists.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/x/colaiste-iognaid-wp/gc3x-col-iste-iogn-id-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Coláiste Iognáid: The Jes https://qualla.com/colaiste-iognaid/ Photo credit MarkusMark, CC BY-SA 3.0. Locally everyone calls it 'the Jes' - the Jesuits' school. Students are organised in year-groups divided into four classes named for figures from Jesuit history: Gaeilge (the Irish-language stream), Xavier (after Francis Xavier the missionary), Loyola (after the founder Ignatius)...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/x/colaiste-iognaid-wp/gc3x-col-iste-iogn-id-the-jes.mp3 0:06 2 full Coláiste Iognáid: From Edmund Kirwan to Sea Road https://qualla.com/colaiste-iognaid/ Photo credit MarkusMark, CC BY-SA 3.0. The 1645 foundation was an act of defiance during the Confederate Wars, the brief period when Catholic Ireland controlled most of the country. Classroom Latin, with only Irish-speaking Jesuits sent on what was called the Irish Mission. The school relocated multiple times across t...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/x/colaiste-iognaid-wp/gc3x-col-iste-iogn-id-from-edmund-kirwan-to-sea-road.mp3 0:06 3 full Coláiste Iognáid: Boats on the Corrib https://qualla.com/colaiste-iognaid/ Photo credit MarkusMark, CC BY-SA 3.0. Coláiste Iognáid Rowing Club - CIRC, founded in 1922 - produces Olympic rowers with a regularity that punches well above the school's size. Cormac Folan of Bearna rowed in the bow seat of Ireland's heavyweight men's four at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. In 2009 Zoe Mannion and Aifri...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/x/colaiste-iognaid-wp/gc3x-col-iste-iogn-id-boats-on-the-corrib.mp3 0:06 4 full Coláiste Iognáid: The Names on the Honours Board https://qualla.com/colaiste-iognaid/ Photo credit MarkusMark, CC BY-SA 3.0. The alumni list is striking for its range. Eric Elwood and Claire Molloy played senior rugby for Ireland. Aifric Keogh rowed at Tokyo. The journalist Sean Duignan was political aide and writer; Sean O'Rourke became RTE's most listened-to morning presenter; Padraic O Raghallaigh w...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/x/colaiste-iognaid-wp/gc3x-col-iste-iogn-id-the-names-on-the-honours-board.mp3 0:06 5 full Coláiste Iognáid: Bilingual, Catholic, Co-Educational https://qualla.com/colaiste-iognaid/ Photo credit MarkusMark, CC BY-SA 3.0. The school's bilingualism is structural. One class per year-group works through Irish to Junior Certificate level. The other classes have Irish as one subject among many, but the cultural framing - Gaeilge first in the list of class names, Irish-language drama as part of school l...

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