Qualla: Glenstal Abbey School https://qualla.com/glenstal-abbey-school en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:12 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/5/glenstal-abbey-school-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Glenstal Abbey School https://qualla.com/glenstal-abbey-school Glenstal Abbey School: Introduction https://qualla.com/glenstal-abbey-school/ Photo credit Tarracoir at en.wikipedia, Public domain. In September 1925 a retired Irish monsignor bought a Norman-Revival castle in east County Limerick for two thousand pounds. Monsignor James J. Ryan had until recently been president of St Patrick's College in Thurles. The castle, called Glenstal, had been the seat of the Barrington family - Limerick baronets who had lived in the area for more than two centuries before relocating to England in the aftermath of the Irish Civil War. Ryan did something unusual with his purchase. He wrote to Belgium, to the abbot of Maredsous Abbey, and invited the Benedictines to come to Ireland to found a daughter house. In March 1927 the first two Belgian monks arrived. They opened an arts and crafts school in 1928. In September 1932 they opened the Abbey School for boys, with one headmaster, Father Columba Skerret OSB, and seven boys on the roll. The school is now ranked among the top in Ireland. The seven boys have become several hundred.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/5/glenstal-abbey-school-wp/gc65-glenstal-abbey-school-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Glenstal Abbey School: A grand statement that appeared ancient https://qualla.com/glenstal-abbey-school/ Photo credit Tarracoir at en.wikipedia, Public domain. The castle the monks moved into in 1927 was not actually old. It had been built in the 1830s by William Bardwell for the Barrington family, who had achieved their baronetcy in 1831 and wanted, in Bardwell's own brief, a "grand statement that appeared ancient, that would create a ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/5/glenstal-abbey-school-wp/gc65-glenstal-abbey-school-a-grand-statement-that-appeared-ancient.mp3 0:06 2 full Glenstal Abbey School: Belgian monks in Murroe https://qualla.com/glenstal-abbey-school/ Photo credit Tarracoir at en.wikipedia, Public domain. Maredsous Abbey, in the Belgian Ardennes, was one of the great revival foundations of nineteenth-century Benedictine monasticism. Founded in 1872, it was known for its scholarship, its liturgical music, and its connection to the German monastery of Beuron whose monks had founded ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/5/glenstal-abbey-school-wp/gc65-glenstal-abbey-school-belgian-monks-in-murroe.mp3 0:06 3 full Glenstal Abbey School: Boarding from seven to seven hundred https://qualla.com/glenstal-abbey-school/ Photo credit Tarracoir at en.wikipedia, Public domain. From those seven original boys in 1932, Glenstal grew into a substantial seven-day, five-day, and weekday boarding school. The school offers all three modes. It is regularly ranked among the top schools in Ireland for academic results. In 2014 the Abbot Primate of the Benedictine...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/5/glenstal-abbey-school-wp/gc65-glenstal-abbey-school-boarding-from-seven-to-seven-hundred.mp3 0:06 4 full Glenstal Abbey School: An accounting with the past https://qualla.com/glenstal-abbey-school/ Photo credit Tarracoir at en.wikipedia, Public domain. Like many Catholic religious institutions, Glenstal has had to face its history of abuse. The Irish Government's Scoping Inquiry Report in June 2024 identified six allegations of abuse against four alleged perpetrators in the school's history - three monks and one peer. None of t...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/5/glenstal-abbey-school-wp/gc65-glenstal-abbey-school-an-accounting-with-the-past.mp3 0:06 5 full Glenstal Abbey School: Judges, hurlers, and a Baron Hemphill https://qualla.com/glenstal-abbey-school/ Photo credit Tarracoir at en.wikipedia, Public domain. The list of former pupils is unusually varied for an Irish school. John Blayney sat on the Supreme Court. Kim Carroll became a composer and musician. Henry de Bromhead trains some of the best racehorses in National Hunt racing. Mark Patrick Hederman, the former abbot of Glenstal ...

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