O'Connell School
The O’Connell School is a secondary and a primary school for boys located on North Richmond Street in Dublin, Ireland. The school, named in honour of the leader of Catholic Emancipation, Daniel O’Connell, has the distinction of being the oldest surviving Christian Brothers school in Dublin, having been first established in 1829. It is now under the trusteeship of the Edmund Rice Schools Trust.
The school was for many years dubbed the "working man's Belvedere College". James Joyce transferred from O'Connell School to Belvedere after being offered a place there.
The school offers the Junior Certificate and Leaving Certificate programmes.Notable staff and past pupils
A number of significant figures in Irish public life attended O'Connell's School.
Arts, journalism and entertainment
- Michael Holohan – composer, member and former chair of Aosdána.
- James Joyce – writer who briefly attended the school; the school is mentioned in Dubliners in the story "Araby"
- Pat Kenny – radio and television presenter
- Barry Keoghan – film and television actor
- Thomas Kinsella – poet and playwright
- Declan Masterson – multi-instrumentalist, composer, former Musical Director at Riverdance
- Colm Meaney – film and television actor
- Michael O'Hehir – radio broadcaster and sports commentator
- Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh – sports commentator who briefly taught at the O'Connell School
- Luke Kelly – former lead singer of folk group The Dubliners
Business and philanthropy
- Bill Cullen – Irish businessman, philanthropist and star of The Apprentice
Science, medicine, technology, engineering and mathematics
- Peter V. Delaney – Irish colorectal surgeon
- John Hooper – BA – first Director of the Statistics Branch of the Department of Industry and Commerce in Ireland
- William Mulholland – Irish-American dam civil engineer
- Joseph Ó Ruanaidh – scientist
Politics
Sports
