Gregory P Ashe Nicholas Smyth, the very first boy in the school in September 1932 (aged 8 – he was born in April 1924) died in Naples, Florida on November 29th, 2008. He spent one year in Glenstal, then went to Ampleforth, but returned to Glenstal for a year in the early forties. He studied first at U.C.D. … Read more
The Class of 1959 planting their Oak Tree It was an enjoyable task contacting the class of 59 to see what interest there might be for a 50th Anniversary dinner. The response was encouraging and many letters later the arrangements fell into place. All the living were tracked down and contacted except Barry Timmons who … Read more
Seventeen survivors of the class of 1976 ate shoe-sole beef or tired salmon at a west Dublin hotel, in a barnlike room that Father Andrew charitably described as “airyâ€. But none of that mattered; some of the large class formerly known as “the Bulge†were together again to mark a third of a century since … Read more