Rockwell College (
Irish: Coláiste Charraig an Tobair), founded in 1864, is a
voluntary day and boarding Catholic secondary school near
Cashel,
County Tipperary in
Ireland.
Rockwell College was founded in 1864 by two Spiritan priests (also known as the Holy Ghost Fathers) to provide education to the sons of Roman Catholics during a time when
Penal Laws were still in place against the Catholic majority in Ireland.[2]
Rockwell College played an important role in the development of the Irish State in the several prominent figures of the
Irish Revolutionary period taught at or attended the school.
Éamon de Valera taught mathematics there as a young teacher and fellow
1916 Proclamation signatory
Thomas MacDonagh attended as a pupil. In 1964 as part of the centenary celebrations President Éamon de Valera returned to the school, 60 years after he taught there.[3]
In 1997, Pat O'Sullivan became Rockwell's first
lay principal, and in 2012 Audrey O'Byrne became the college's first female principal.[4]
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Fionán Lynch, Deputy Leader of
Fine Gael, TD from 1918 to 1944, Leas-Cheann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann from 1938 to 1939 and Government Minister from 1922 to 1932
Michael Ahern, former Junior Minister for Industry and Commerce and former TD for
Cork East