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2 unusual facts about Kilkenny College


Kilkenny College

Butler served as editor of the Galway Vindcator during the Great Famine and was briefly imprisoned for his activities with the Young Ireland movement.

Wellesley Bailey, (1846-1937), Founder of the international charity The Leprosy Mission


Andrew Fitzgerald

He was born in 1763 to James FitzGerald and Mary Fitzgerald (née Knarsborough) in High Street, Kilkenny City, he went to school in the Church of Ireland run Kilkenny College and at the age of 16 went to study in the University of Louvain becoming a Dominican friar.


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