Qualla: Crescent College https://qualla.com/crescent-college 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/g/crescent-college-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Crescent College https://qualla.com/crescent-college Crescent College: Introduction https://qualla.com/crescent-college/ Photo credit MarkusMark, CC BY-SA 3.0. In April 1566, an English Jesuit priest named William Good wrote secretly to his superiors in Rome to report what he was doing in Limerick. He and a Limerick-born Jesuit scholastic, Edmund Daniel, had been in the city two years, teaching local boys to read and write and translating the catechism into English. They could only meet their patron, the Papal Legate David Wolfe, at night, because the English authorities were trying to arrest him. They had moved at one point to Kilmallock under the protection of the Earl of Desmond, then come back. The next year the Pope excommunicated Queen Elizabeth I; the year after that, Daniel was banished from Ireland. From this tiny, dangerous, persecuted seed grew, with long interruptions, what is now Crescent College Comprehensive SJ - a Jesuit comprehensive school on forty acres of parkland in Dooradoyle, just outside Limerick city, where today around a thousand boys and girls go to school.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/g/crescent-college-wp/gc3g-crescent-college-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Crescent College: The First Limerick School https://qualla.com/crescent-college/ Photo credit MarkusMark, CC BY-SA 3.0. The early Limerick Jesuit school had every disadvantage that Counter-Reformation politics could throw at it. It ran in private houses, occasionally under the literal noses of the authorities - at one strange moment they actually set up in a property owned by the Lord Deputy of Ir...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/g/crescent-college-wp/gc3g-crescent-college-the-first-limerick-school.mp3 0:06 2 full Crescent College: The Crescent https://qualla.com/crescent-college/ Photo credit MarkusMark, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Society of Jesus was restored in 1814. In 1859, at the invitation of Bishop John Ryan of Limerick, the Jesuits returned to the city. Their first premises were on Hartstone Street; in 1862 they bought Crescent House and three adjacent buildings on the Georgian Crescent at the ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/g/crescent-college-wp/gc3g-crescent-college-the-crescent.mp3 0:06 3 full Crescent College: The Move to Dooradoyle https://qualla.com/crescent-college/ Photo credit MarkusMark, CC BY-SA 3.0. By the late 1960s the world had changed and the Crescent was at a crossroads. Pope Pedro Arrupe, General of the Society of Jesus, was urging the Jesuits worldwide to return to St Ignatius's original vision - schools for the poor and underserved, not fee-paying institutions for th...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/g/crescent-college-wp/gc3g-crescent-college-the-move-to-dooradoyle.mp3 0:06 4 full Crescent College: Coeducation, Computers, Champions https://qualla.com/crescent-college/ Photo credit MarkusMark, CC BY-SA 3.0. In 1978 Crescent became the first Irish Jesuit school to go co-educational, with a ratio of three boys to one girl. Along with Gonzaga in Dublin, it was the first Irish school to offer transition year. In the 1980s, in collaboration with the new National Institute for Higher Educ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/g/crescent-college-wp/gc3g-crescent-college-coeducation-computers-champions.mp3 0:06 5 full Crescent College: Ignatian Continuity https://qualla.com/crescent-college/ Photo credit MarkusMark, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Sacred Heart Church on the Crescent in central Limerick - the spiritual home of the school for 150 years - closed in 2006, ending a century-and-a-half association. The Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest, a Traditionalist Catholic order, eventually bought the buildi...

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