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unusual facts about Irish College


Joseph-Ignace Guillotin

This essay impressed the Jesuits so much that they persuaded him to enter their order and he was appointed a professor of literature at the Irish College at Bordeaux.


Aloysius Gentili

He remained in Rome, attending theological lectures whilst residing at the Irish College in order to improve his English, and after his ordination to the priesthood, in 1830, proceeded to Domodossola to make his novitiate.


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1603 in Ireland

November - Geoffrey Keating is one of forty students who sail for Bordeaux under the charge of the Rev. Diarmaid MacCarthy to begin their studies at the Irish College which has just been founded in that city by Cardinal François de Sourdis, Archbishop of Bordeaux.

Kilkieran

It is linked to the nearby town of Carna by the Irish college of Coláiste Sheoisaimh, which runs courses during the summer and mid-term breaks.

Mac an Bhaird

In collaboration with Micheál Ó Cléirigh and his team of scholars in Ireland, the entire effort was supervised by Father Hugh Ward (Aedh Mac an Bháird), rector and guardian of the great Irish College of St. Anthony in Louvain, the Spanish Netherlands (modern Belgium), and the most important Irish publishing center in Europe for nearly fifty years.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Cloyne

The Very Reverend Dr. Thady O'Brien, Regius Professor of Theology of the University of Toulouse and Rector of the Irish College Toulouse, born 12 March 1671 at Robertstown, Gortroe, in the diocese of Cloyne; oradined at Toulouse on 2 June 1703; Rector of the Irish College Tolouse 1706-1715; Parish Priest of Castlelyons 1715-1747; died 10 October 1747 at Castlelyons where he was interred.

Thomas Joseph Power

Carlow, and then Carlow College(1843-1853) at the time Carlow students could sit exams for degrees from the University of London and he was awarded a BA in 1850 he went on to study for a MA, he completed his studies in the Irish College in Rome(1853-1855) and was ordained a priest there by Archbishop Paul Cullen, and returned to Dublin to serve.