Qualla: St Kieran's College https://qualla.com/st-kieran-s-college en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:12 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: St Kieran's College https://qualla.com/st-kieran-s-college St Kieran's College: Introduction https://qualla.com/st-kieran-s-college/ Hiems Transiit. The winter has passed. The motto on St Kieran's College crest is from the Song of Solomon, chapter 3, verse 11 - flos apparuerunt in terra nostra, the flowers have appeared in our land - and the metaphor is exact and political. For most of the eighteenth century the Irish penal laws had made Catholic education in Ireland illegal. Catholics could not found schools, could not send their children abroad to be taught the Catholic faith, could not become teachers without converting. When the Catholic Relief Act of 1782 finally allowed Catholic schools to be founded with the consent of the local Protestant bishop, St Kieran's was first. The winter had passed.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/g/st-kieran-s-college-wp/gc6g-st-kierans-college-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full St Kieran's College: First in the country https://qualla.com/st-kieran-s-college/ St Kieran's was founded in Kilkenny in the diocese of Ossory in 1782 - the year of the Relief Act itself - as the first Catholic secondary school established in Ireland under the new law. It was named after St Ciarán of Saigir, called in the Latin records Primogenitus Sanctorum H...

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