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| O'Connell Secondary School | |
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| Location | |
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North Richmond Street,Dublin 1, D01 Y4A9, Ireland | |
| Coordinates | 53°21′30″N6°15′03″W / 53.3582°N 6.2507°W /53.3582; -6.2507 |
| Information | |
| Motto | Ciall agus neart (Sense and strength) |
| Established | 1828; 197 years ago (1828) |
| Principal | Liam Newell |
| Staff | Over 30 |
| Gender | Male |
| Number of students | Over 300 |
| Religious order | Congregation of Christian Brothers |
| Website | oconnellschool |
TheO’Connell School is a secondary and primary school for boys located on North Richmond Street inDublin, Ireland. The school, named in honour of the leader ofCatholic Emancipation,Daniel O’Connell, has the distinction of being the oldest survivingChristian Brothers school in Dublin, having been first established in 1829. It is now under the trusteeship of theEdmund Rice Schools Trust.
The school offers theJunior Certificate andLeaving Certificate programmes.
A number of significant figures in Irish public life attended O'Connell's School.
...the fortunes of the Joyce family fell into decline and thatJohn Stanislaus [James Joyce's father], in 1891, had to remove James from ...Clongowes Wood College and that he didn't enterBelvedere College ... until 1893. So what went on during this interval? ...research reveals that the bold James was ... at ... O'Connell Schools, North Richmond Street, run by the Christian Brothers.