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unusual facts about St Patrick's Grammar School, Downpatrick


Eddie McGrady

Born in Downpatrick, County Down, Northern Ireland, one of eleven children, McGrady was educated at St Patrick's Grammar School, Downpatrick and at Belfast Technical College, where he trained as a chartered accountant, subsequently entering his family's accountancy firm.


All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship 1973

The championship was organised on the traditional provincial system used in Gaelic Games since the 1880s, with St Patrick’s Creggan, based in Randalstown, County Antrim and Thurles winning the championships of the other two provinces.

Arthur Hinsley

He took up pastoral ministry in Westminster in 1898, and served as headmaster of St. Bede's Grammar School (which he also founded) from 1900 to 1904.

Bernard Heinze

Educated at St Patrick's Catholic College, Ballarat, Heinze received violin lessons at an early age, under the guidance of Walter Gude (1904–12) first in Ballarat, and later at the University of Melbourne under Franklin Peterson, before being awarded the (Sir William) Clarke Scholarship at the Royal College of Music in London (1913).

Carre's Grammar School

Paul Holland (1984–1991) Professional footballer who made over 300 appearances in the Football League for Mansfield Town, Sheffield United, Chesterfield and Bristol City and was capped four times for the England U21s

Chapel Street, Melbourne

St Michael's Grammar School now incorporates many of the area's old buildings.

Church of St Mary on the Rock

John Comyn, the first Anglo-Norman Archbishop of Dublin, created a new collegiate church at St Patricks parish church, a collegiate church his successor Henry de Loundres turned into a second cathedral.

Count Guy de Lasteyrie

In 1912 he married Constance Whitney Warren, the daughter of George Henry Warren II, at St Patrick's Cathedral.

David Jenkinson

Jenkinson was born in Leeds and educated at Prince Henry's Grammar School, Otley, which in 1951 took him to a field trip to the Settle-Carlisle Railway line (S&C), which would start a lengthy relationship with that line.

Downpatrick

In 1183, John de Courcy brought in some Benedictines from the abbey of St. Werburgh in Chester (today Chester Cathedral) in England and built a cathedral friary for them at Downpatrick.

Downpatrick Loop Platform railway station

The Downpatrick Loop Platform railway station is owned and operated by the Downpatrick and County Down Railway which is a heritage railway in Northern Ireland.

Dublin Cathedral

St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, the Church of Ireland national cathedral in Dublin, Ireland

E. L. B. Hurulle

He completed his primary and secondary education at St Patrick’s College and Jaffna & Trinity College, Kandy where he passed the London Inter - Arts Examination.

Edward Fitton, the elder

He was buried on 21 September in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin beside his wife Anne Warburton.

Fergus Crawford

The local Phoenix Park provided a safer place to kickabout and he was soon spotted there by scouts from Bulfin United, a feeder club for St Patrick's Athletic.

Jacques Le Goff

In his 1984 book The Birth of Purgatory, he argued that the conception of purgatory as a physical place, rather than merely as a state, dates to the 12th century, the heyday of medieval otherworld-journey narratives such as the Irish Visio Tnugdali, and of pilgrims' tales about St Patrick's Purgatory, a cavelike entrance to purgatory on a remote island in Ireland.

Leslie Haden-Guest, 1st Baron Haden-Guest

He was educated first at William Hulme's Grammar School, then studied medicine at Owens College, Manchester, and the London Hospital.

Lewis Leigh Fermor

He was educated at Wilson's Grammar School in Camberwell and studied metallurgy at the Royal School of Mines, with scholarships at each, and winning the Murchison medal for geology at the latter.

Link Ethiopia

Link Ethiopia was started as GondarLink in 1996, and was originally a single link between Dr Challoner's Grammar School in Amersham, UK and Fasiledes Comprehensive Secondary School in Gondar, Ethiopia.

Lizzie Armitstead

Armitstead was born in the market town of Otley in West Yorkshire, where she attended Prince Henry's Grammar School, a state comprehensive school.

Olcán

Olcán (fl. 5th century) is the name of an early Irish saint of the Dál Riata, disciple of St Patrick and founder of Armoy (Irish:Oirthear Maí) in northeast Antrim, Northern Ireland.

Oswin Mascarenhas

St Patrick's High School and St. Patrick's College have the distinction of having had Prof. Mascarenhas as the only lay-person as principal of both institutions.

Pettigo railway station

The station's main purpose was to offer easy access for the considerable pilgrim traffic to St Patrick's Purgatory on Lough Derg.

Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Faversham

Much of the building material was removed by military engineers and transported by sea to France, where it was used to strengthen the fortifications of the towns in the Pale of Calais, which at the time was England's continental bridgehead.

Queen Mary's Grammar School

Prof Martin Ennals, Ariel F. Sallows Professor of Human Rights in 1991 at the University of Saskatchewan, Secretary-General from 1968-80 of Amnesty International, and younger brother of David

Queen's Quay, Belfast

The first train from the station ran on 2 August 1848 to Holywood, with services eventually extending as far as Castlewellan, Downpatrick, Newcastle and the fishing village of Ardglass.

Rebellion Beer Company

It was founded in 1993 by two former students of Sir William Borlase's Grammar School, and is now brewing around 125 barrels per week, serving over 200 pubs in a 30 mile radius of Marlow.

Robert Mark

He was educated at William Hulme's Grammar School, where he was undistinguished academically, but became captain of rugby and head prefect.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne

St Patrick's Cathedral is the seat of the archbishop of Melbourne, currently Denis Hart.

Samuel Lodge

The Rev. Samuel Lodge (11 February 1829 – 5 September 1897) was the author of Scrivelsby, the Home of the Champions He was a headmaster of Horncastle Grammar School, Lincolnshire, rector for 30 years of Scrivelsby in Lincolnshire, and a Canon of Lincoln Cathedral.

Second Movement Opera

In February 2011, The Medium by Gian Carlo Menotti, a Second Movement production first staged in 2006, was performed in a tour of Northern Ireland by NI Opera in association with Second Movement, with performances in the Strule Arts Centre, Omagh; The Great Hall, Downpatrick; Theatre at the Mill, Newtownabbey and The Market Place Theatre, Armagh.

St Cyprian's Grammar School, Kimberley

In 2012 the St Cyprian's Grammar School Choir, accompanied by strings and continuo, gave performances, in the cathedral, of Antonio Vivaldi's Gloria.

St John's Grammar School

It operates from three campuses; the Junior School is adjacent to Belair National Park and the Belair railway station, the Early Learning Centre is opposite the Junior School, and the Secondary School, set up in 1998, occupies the site of the former Retreat House and St Barnabas Theological College.

St Mary's Grammar School

Student who excel in the various activities get to win prizes which are always linked to the Irish Language, such as Gael Linn or Foras na Gaeilge merchandise.

St Patrick's Cathedral, Parramatta

The commissioned artists included Sydney sculptor Anne Ferguson (who worked in stone), Tasmanian designer Kevin Perkins (who worked in timber), and Sydney sculptor and jewellery designer Robin Blau (who worked in metal).

St Patrick's Channel

St. Patricks Channel an arm of Bras d'Or Lake, Cape Breton Island, Canada

St Patrick's Church, Liverpool

On the east wall above the altar is a large painting of the Crucifixion executed in about 1834 by Nicaise de Keyser of Antwerp.

St Patrick's College, Belfast

The local sporting scene has many connections to St Patrick’s College, with students including Olympic medallist Paddy Barnes and champion boxer Ryan Burnett, both likely to be selected to fight for Ireland at the forthcoming London 2012 Olympic Games.

St Patrick's College, Dublin

Lord Lifford (Lord Chancellor of Ireland former MP for Coventry).

St Patrick's College, Mackay

Wendell Sailor – dual-code international Rugby League and Rugby Union player and TV personality

St Patrick's College, Townsville

Valma Weetman joined the R.A.A.F and became a Corporal during her first two years issuing kits in a Sydney airmen Depot.She was one of several ladies selected to appear in news articles promoting women recruitments into the defence forces.

St Patrick's GFC, Cullyhanna

Ciaran McKeever, Armagh U21 and Senior player, member of 2008, 2010 and 2011 Ireland international rules football teams

St Patrick's Grammar School, Downpatrick

In the area of Performing Arts, the school has brought a number of productions to fruition over the years, the most recent being Philadelphia, Here I Come! and The Phantom of the Opera.

St Patrick's Isle

It is connected to the town of Peel on the Isle of Man by a causeway over Fenella Beach, named after the character in Sir Walter Scott's Peveril of the Peak.

St Patrick's Purgatory

Pete McCarthy's visit in 1998 is described in McCarthy's Bar.

Marie de France translated it into French and expanded it into the Legend of the Purgatory of St. Patrick.

St Saviour's Grammar School

On May 16, 1562 the parishioners paid £42 for a thousand-year lease from Matthew Smith on a building associated with the Green Dragon Inn, which had previously been owned by Lady Cobham.

St. Bede's Grammar School

Mike Hellawell, footballer, played two international games for England in 1962

The Dave Fanning Show

The previous incarnation of the weekday Dave Fanning Show started on RTÉ 2fm radio on March 18, 2002 the day after St Patrick's Day and the last programme was broadcast on July 28, 2006.

Tim Marshall

Marshall was educated at Prince Henry's Grammar School, a former state grammar school in the market town of Otley, in Leeds,West Yorkshire.


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