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{{Short description|Secondary school in Dublin, Ireland}}
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| type = [[Voluntary secondary school|Voluntary]]
| name = Gonzaga College SJ
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| image = Gonzaga College Crest.jpg
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| caption = Arms of the college, based on those of the [[House of Gonzaga]] of [[Duchy of Mantua|Mantua]]
| motto = Semper et Ubique Fidelis <ref name="MissionStatement">{{citation |url=https://www.gonzaga.ie/mission |title=Mission Statement |work=Gonzaga College SJ |access-date=15 February 2022}}</ref>
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| location = Sandford Road
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| city = Ranelagh
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| province = Leinster
| county = Dublin
| postcode = D06 KF95
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| coordinates = {{coord|53|19|0.52|N|6|14|57.58|W|type:edu|display=inline,title}}
| schooltype = secondary school
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| religion = [[Catholic church|Roman Catholic]], [[Jesuit]]
| founded = {{Start date and age| 1950 }}
| schoolnumber = +353-1-497-2931
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| principal = Damon McCaul
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| years = 1st to 6th
| gender = Male
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| fees = €6,605 (2019–2022)
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'''Gonzaga College SJ''' is a [[voluntary secondary school|voluntary]] [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] boys' secondary school in [[Ranelagh]], [[Dublin]], Ireland.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gonzaga College, Dublin City 6 on SchoolDays.ie |url=https://www.schooldays.ie/school/gonzaga-college-rollnumber-60530S |access-date=2022-07-27 |website=www.schooldays.ie}}</ref> Founded in 1950, Gonzaga College is under the trusteeship of the [[Society of Jesus]] (the Jesuit Order), one of five [[List of Jesuit schools in Ireland|Jesuit secondary schools in Ireland]]. The curriculum is traditional, with a broad general programme of subjects including [[Latin]] and [[Ancient Greek|Greek]] at Junior Cycle and
The school is named after the early Jesuit [[Aloysius Gonzaga|Saint Aloysius Gonzaga]] and takes its emblem from the coat of arms of the [[House of Gonzaga|Gonzaga]] family. The school has a liberal, intellectual, and [[Belvedere College#Jesuit ethos|Jesuit ethos]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gonzaga.ie/home/ap06|title=Gonzaga College SJ}}</ref><ref>[http://www.seattleu.edu/uploadedFiles/Core/Jesuit_Education/CharacteristicsJesuitEducation.pdf ''The Characteristics of Jesuit Education''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100602002316/http://www.seattleu.edu/uploadedfiles/core/jesuit_education/characteristicsjesuiteducation.pdf |date=2010-06-02 }}. Seattle University. Retrieved: 2010-09-03.</ref><ref>[https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20120915122423/http://www.jesuitalumni.org/est/doc/chara-en.pdf ''The Characteristics of Jesuit Education'']. World Union of Jesuit Alumni(ae). Retrieved: 2010-09-03.</ref>
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== Campus ==
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[[File:Gonzagarama.jpg|center|thumb|775px|Grounds of Gonzaga College in Ranelagh, Dublin]]
The school is located {{convert|4.4|km|mi|abbr=on}} from Dublin city centre<ref>[http://www.wikimapia.org/#lat=53.333282&lon=-6.2547398&z=14&l=0&m=b&gz=0;-62602812;533171338;110561;0;0;322647 Wikimapia] Distance measured precisely to G.P.O. as crow flies.</ref> on a large area of land including a front lawn with [[Crease (cricket)|cricket crease]], rugby pitches and tennis courts. The school buildings include a library, chapel, clock tower, theatre, priests' residence, science block, and 84 individual classrooms. The architecture of the school mixes modern copper-roofed buildings with older period houses. Some sections of the school grounds were sold to developers for housing estates in 1984.
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=== Sports ===
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[[File:Gonzaga College classrooms and clock tower.jpg|left|thumb|300px|St Joseph's House (classrooms and administration block) and clock tower]]▼
The primary sport
The Junior Cup Rugby teams of 1989, 2003, and 2006 reached the final of the [[Leinster Schools Junior Cup]]. The [[Leinster Schools Rugby Senior Cup|Senior Cup Team]] (SCT) have reached three semi finals and three finals. The SCT of 2019 reached the final of the Senior Cup for the first time in the college's history, losing to [[St Michael's College, Dublin|Saint Michael's College]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/sport/rugby/st-michaels-college-win-third-leinster-schools-senior-cup-911562.html|title=St Michael's College win third Leinster Schools' Senior Cup|date=17 March 2019}}</ref>
| url = https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/rugby/2023/03/17/gonzaga-win-a-first-senior-cup-after-dethroning-champions-blackrock-in-final-for-the-ages/ | | last = O' | first | | date = 2023-03-17}}</ref> beating holders Blackrock with a score of 35-31 on 17 March, 2023. They have also won the Senior League (for middle-ranking schools) on several occasions. The school has produced a small number of professional rugby players and seven Irish internationals: [[Tony Ensor (rugby union, born 1949)|Tony Ensor]], [[John Cooney (rugby union)|John Cooney]], [[Barry Bresnihan]] (who went on to represent the [[British and Irish Lions]]), [[Paddy Kenny (rugby union)|Padraig Kenny]], [[Kevin McLaughlin]], [[Dominic Ryan]], and [[Matt Healy (rugby union)|Matt Healy]]. The school golf team won Leinster titles in 1999 and 2006. Previously, the team reached the semi-finals of the junior cup. In 2010, the Senior Team won the Leinster Schools Senior Matchplay competition, beating [[Blackrock College]] 3½ to 1½.<ref>[http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/sport/2010/0216/1224264551706.html Short game] by Shay Keenan, ''The Irish Times'', 2010-02-16. Retrieved: 2010-09-01.</ref> They went on to win the All-Ireland Golf Championship in April 2010.
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The school is occasionally represented by a [[soccer]] team in friendly matches, but association football is not an official sport of the school.
The main sports in the college during the summer term are [[lawn tennis]] and [[cricket]]. Gonzaga College has a strong tennis tradition, producing many of Ireland's finest tennis players including Barry King, Seán Molloy and Jerry Sheehan. The college has also produced three cricket internationals, most recently bowler [[George Dockrell]], as well as Ireland internationals in bridge, lawn bowls and fencing. The school also has a rich history of competition in Ultimate Frisbee, winning several Schools Cups and providing the starting point for many players who have gone on to compete internationally at various age levels.
=== Chess ===
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Gonazga Chess Club, which includes pupils and adults competes in the Leinster Chess Union leagues, with the club being very successful in recent years, winning the first division [[Armstrong Cup]] 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019.
== Buildings ==
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▲[[File:Gonzaga College classrooms and clock tower.jpg|left|thumb|300px|St Joseph's House (classrooms and administration block) and clock tower]]
Initially the school consisted of the three [[Bewley's|Bewley]] buildings on the site, one being used for the school, one as a Jesuit house of residence, and one as a lunch room, changing rooms, science laboratories, etc. In the 1950s, [[Andrew Devane]] of Robinson Keefe Devane Architects prepared a masterplan with a school hall between the two main houses and classroom wings extending to the two main houses. The masterplan included a chapel in front of the hall and main entrance. Over the 1950s the classroom wing linked to the school house was built along with the hall and main entrance. In the 1960s the chapel was built. In the 1980s an additional wing of classrooms was constructed. The school's renovation project finished in time for the 2009–10 school year: the first stage was a complete renovation of the science facilities, while the second stage almost doubled the floor area of the school with new buildings. The extension included the new Purdy Dining Hall, the new Coulson Theatre, a gym changing area, and classrooms. The old school hall was completely renovated into a modern library named the Sutherland Library with meeting rooms and study facilities. In 2019-2020 there are tentative plans for a major development of the older section of the school.
[[File:Gonzagarama2.jpg|center|thumb|775px|School campus panorama]]
== Former principal ==
In 2020, former headmaster Patrick Potts committed suicide several days prior to a court appearance on charges of the sexual abuse of students while he was vice-principal of [[Greendale Community School]], a post he held before becoming headmaster at Gonzaga College.<ref name=allegations>{{Cite news| url = https://www.irishtimes.com/news/education/abuse-allegations-against-ex-principal-of-gonzaga-deeply-disturbing-1.4402719 |title = Abuse allegations against ex-principal of Gonzaga 'Deeply disturbing' |last = O'Brien |first = Carl |newspaper = The Irish Times |date = 2020-11-06}}</ref><ref>https://www.bishop-accountability.org/2023/10/some-schools-use-restorative-justice-to-deal-with-past-abuse-why-not-others/ {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.thetimes.com/world/ireland-world/article/i-feel-cheated-says-francis-nesbitt-as-ex-gonzaga-head-patrick-potts-dies-before-sex-abuse-trial-gz68fzp6z | title=I feel cheated, says Francis Nesbitt as ex-Gonzaga head Patrick Potts dies before sex abuse trial | date=24 October 2020 }}</ref> The school commented that it had "never received a complaint directly relating to his tenure at Gonzaga." but that it was aware of one complaint which had been made directly to the [[Garda Síochana]].<ref name=allegations/>
== Notable past pupils ==
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===Academia===
*[[Anthony Clare]] — psychiatrist and broadcaster<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.theguardian.com/education/2001/may/13/medicalscience.comment|title=The chair man: the Anthony Clare profile|date=13 May 2001|website=the Guardian}}</ref>
*[[Peter Clinch]] — Jean Monnet Professor of European Policy at [[University College Dublin]] and economic adviser to former [[Taoiseach]] [[Brian Cowen]]<ref>[https://archive.today/20120802043901/http://www.independent.ie/national-news/hes-the-last-big-hope-for-nation-on-its-knees-1422915.html He's the last big hope for nation on its knees], ''Sunday Independent'', 2008-06-29. Retrieved: 2010-08-25.</ref>
*[[George K. Miley]] — Professor of Astronomy, Leiden University<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.fwn.leidenuniv.nl/gs/astronomy/staff/miley.htm|title=George K. Miley|access-date=22 March 2008|archive-date=30 June 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070630170328/http://www.fwn.leidenuniv.nl/gs/astronomy/staff/miley.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*[[Diarmuid Rossa Phelan]] — Associate Professor, Law, Trinity College Dublin<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tcd.ie/law/people/drphelan|title=Diarmuid Rossa Phelan}}</ref>
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*[[Finghin Collins]] — concert pianist<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.pasadenaisd.org/pearlhall/music/Finghin%20Collins.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071111040845/http://www.pasadenaisd.org/pearlhall/music/Finghin%20Collins.htm|title=Finghin Collins ~ Concert Pianist|archive-date=11 November 2007}}</ref>
*[[Conor Deasy]] — lead singer with [[The Thrills]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.hotpress.com/music/the-secret-history-of-the-thrills-2675515 | title=The Secret History of the Thrills }}</ref>
*[[Paul Durcan]] — poet<ref>{{
*[[Jack Gleeson]] — actor <ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.irishtimes.com/first-encounters-jack-gleeson-and-matt-smyth-1.1488351 | title=First encounters: Jack Gleeson and Matt Smyth | newspaper=[[The Irish Times]] }}</ref>
*[[Patrick Gibson (actor)|Patrick Gibson]] - actor{{cn|date=June 2023}}
*[[Aidan Mathews]] — poet, dramatist, novelist.<ref>[http://www.ricorso.net/rx/az-data/authors/m/Mathews_A1/life.htm Aidan Mathews], Ricorso. Retrieved: 2012-01-06.</ref>
*[[Redmond Morris, 4th Baron Killanin]] — film producer<ref>{{
*[[Fionn O'Shea]] — actor<ref>{{
*[[Andrew Scott (actor)|Andrew Scott]] — actor<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0778831/bio|title = Andrew Scott|website = [[IMDb]]}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=April 2024}}<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.gonzaga.ie/naming-the-library | title=The CALL }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://m.independent.ie/entertainment/movies/great-scott-how-it-all-began-with-a-bowl-of-porridge/30217613.html | title=Great Scott: How it all began with a bowl of porridge | date=27 April 2014 }}</ref>
*[[Ronan Sheehan]] — novelist, short story writer, essayist, and former copyright lawyer<ref>[http://www.ricorso.net/rx/az-data/authors/s/Sheehan_R/life.htm Ronan Sheehan], Ricorso</ref>
*[[Hugh Tinney]] — concert pianist<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.finghincollins.com/main.php?type=news&article=gonzaga |title=News Articles - Gonzaga Golden Jubilee Concert |date=27 October 2007 |website= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071027062227/http://www.finghincollins.com/main.php?type=news&article=gonzaga |archive-date=27 October 2007 }}</ref>
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*[[Paul Carney]] — [[Irish High Court]] judge<ref>[http://archives.tcm.ie/businesspost/2003/04/13/story135990641.asp Judge with one eye on the Media] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070310152104/http://archives.tcm.ie/businesspost/2003/04/13/story135990641.asp |date=2007-03-10 }}</ref>
*[[Kevin Feeney]] — [[Irish High Court]] judge<ref>[http://archives.tcm.ie/businesspost/2004/12/12/story974.asp Clash of Wigless Titans] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929120538/http://archives.tcm.ie/businesspost/2004/12/12/story974.asp |date=2007-09-29 }}</ref>
*[[Charles Lysaght]] — lawyer and obituary writer<ref>[http://gonzagaunion.ie/gallery/details.asp?ImageID=794 Photo Gallery] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110817093543/http://gonzagaunion.ie/gallery/details.asp?ImageID=794 |date=2011-08-17 }} Gonzaga Union. Retrieved: 2011-11-18.</ref>{{Failed verification|date=April 2024}}
===Politics and diplomacy===
*[[Patrick Costello (Irish politician)|Patrick Costello]] — [[Green Party (Ireland)|Green Party]] TD<ref>{{cite web| url = http://patrickcostello.ie/| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150216193334/http://patrickcostello.ie/| archive-date = 2015-02-16| title = Patrick Costello {{!}} Green Party – Rathgar Rathmines Local Election Candidate}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=April 2024}}
*[[Ciarán Cuffe]] — [[Green Party (Ireland)|Green Party]] MEP and former [[Teachta Dála|TD]] and Minister of State for Horticulture, Sustainable Travel, and Planning and Heritage<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.greenparty.ie/people/ciaran_cuffe|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070217075432/http://www.greenparty.ie/people/ciaran_cuffe|title=Green Party TD|archive-date=17 February 2007}}</ref>
*[[Jim O'Callaghan]] — [[Fianna Fail]] TD<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.ie/sport/rugby/schools-rugby/gonzaga-past-pupils-were-extremely-drunk-at-match-35497983.html|title=Gonzaga past pupils were 'extremely drunk' at match|website=independent|date=3 March 2017 }}</ref>
*[[Eamon Ryan]] — [[Green Party (Ireland)|Green Party]] [[Teachta Dála|TD]] and [[Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources]]<ref>[http://archives.tcm.ie/businesspost/2006/11/19/story18977.asp FF's strength in numbers] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929103216/http://archives.tcm.ie/businesspost/2006/11/19/story18977.asp |date=2007-09-29 }}</ref>
*[[Ossian Smyth]] — [[Green Party (Ireland)|Green Party]] TD and Minister of State for Public Procurement and eGovernment<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/ossiansmyth/|title=Ossian Smyth|website=Linkedin}}</ref>
*[[Peter Sutherland]] — [[EU Commissioner]], former director general of the [[World Trade Organization]], former [[Attorney General of Ireland|attorney general of Ireland]], former chairman of [[BP]] and chairman of [[Goldman Sachs]]<ref>[https://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2006/sga976.doc.htm Secretary-General Appoints Peter Sutherland as Special Representative for Migration], ''United Nations Press Release'', 2006-01-23. Retrieved: 2010-08-25.</ref>
===Sports===
*[[Barry Bresnihan]] — former [[Irish Rugby]] international, [[British and Irish Lions]] player and renowned doctor<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/medicine-obituaries/7911154/Barry-Bresnihan.html Barry Bresnihan Obituary] ''The Telegraph'', 2010-07-26.</ref>
*[[Sam Collins (chess player)|Sam Collins]] — International Master of chess<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=31504|title=The chess games of Sam E Collins|website=www.chessgames.com}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=April 2024}}
*[[Tony Ensor (rugby union, born 1949)|Tony Ensor]] — Irish rugby international<ref>
*[[Matt Healy (rugby union)|Matt Healy]] - former [[Connacht Rugby]] player and [[Ireland national rugby union team|Ireland]] international<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.the42.ie/matt-healy-connacht-ireland-debut-south-africa-2847591-Jun2016/|title=Mixed feelings for Connacht's Healy after Ireland debut in defeat to Boks|first=The42|last=Team|website=The42|date=27 June 2016 }}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=April 2024}}
*[[George Dockrell]] - [[Ireland cricket team|Ireland Cricket Team]]{{cn|date=April 2024}}
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==See also==
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==Further reading==
*[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/article592067.ece Parent Power: Zealous ethos drives Gonzaga to the top]{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}, ''The Sunday Times''.{{subscription required}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20030214094235/http://gonzaga.ie/college/history.html Archived history page from old version of the college website]
*''A Short History of Gonzaga College, 1950–2000'', Christopher J. Finlay, Dublin, September 2000, Eneclann Ltd. {{ISBN|978-0-9537557-1-4}}.
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== External links ==
*[http://www.gonzaga.ie/ School website]
*[http://www.gonzagaunion.ie/ Gonzaga College past pupils union]
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