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O'Connell Schools

O'Connell C.B.S.
Location
North Richmond Street, Dublin 1, D01 Y4A9,
Ireland
Coordinates 53°21′33″N 6°15′05″W / 53.3593°N 6.2515°W / 53.3593; -6.2515Coordinates: 53°21′33″N 6°15′05″W / 53.3593°N 6.2515°W / 53.3593; -6.2515
Information
Motto "Ciall agus neart"
(Power and strength)
Established 1828
Principal Gerry Duffy and Deputy Principal Lynn Kidney (secondary) and Patsy O'Keefe (primary)
Staff Over 45
Gender Male (and female for Repeat Leaving Certificate Program
Number of students over 500 including (Leaving Certificate repeats) secondary 200(primary)
Religious order Congregation of Christian Brothers
Website

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. James Joyce attended the school for a time, and it is mentioned in Dubliners in the story Araby. The school was for many years dubbed the "working man's Belvedere College" (in reference to the nearby fee-paying school of that name, and because of its good reputation). James Joyce transferred from O'Connell School to Belvedere after being offered a place there.

A number of significant figures in Irish public life attended O'Connell's School.


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