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                           Prominent past pupils

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Listed in alphabetical order with present or previous occupation

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Lenny Abrahamson, director of the award winning film "Adam and Paul"

Kingsley Aikins, former President and CEO American Ireland Fund and The Ireland Fund

Deirdre Armstrong ("Dee") - member of the internationally renowned band Kila - electric traditional Irish/rock.

William Burgess, former Managing Director, IBM Ireland

Ian Burns, played for the Irish rugby team, member of the Board of Governors

Lana Citron, author and script writer

Kate Coleman Moriarty, consultant eye and oculoplastic surgeon

Nigel Cox, Director, Asia-Pacific division, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London

Dr Alex Donaldson OBE, formerly Head, Pirbright Laboratory, Institute for Animal Health, Surrey, UK, was recently appointed a Visiting Professor at the Department of Pathology & Infectious Diseases, Royal Veterinary College, University of London. 

Dr. David Edwards, NUI Cork.  Lecturer in Later Medieval history at UCC and a prominent heritage campaigner.  Publications include: Ormond Lordship in county Kilkenny 1515-1642; British Sources for Irish History (with Brian C. Donovan); Gaelic Ireland: Land, lordship and settlement c. 1250-c. 1650 (ed. with Duffy and Fitzpatrick); Age of Atrocity: violence and political conflict in early modern Ireland (edited with Lenihan & Tait).  

Alan Ford, Professor of Theology, University of Nottingham

David Ford, Regius Professor of Divinity, University of Cambridge

Ian Fox, broadcaster, music critic, lecturer

Alan Gillis, MEP

Arthur Godsil, Headmaster, St Andrew's College, Dublin

S. Thiru Govender, Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Calgary, Canada

James Hamilton, barrister, Director of Public Prosecutions

Cuan Hanly, fashion designer

Stephen Hinds, Professor of Latin in the University of Washington, Seattle

Arthur Hughes, Professor of Physics in the University of Natal, Durban, South Africa

David Maxwell Johnston, represented Wales against France at schoolboys level in 1955

Howard Kilroy, formerly of Jefferson Smurfit and Governor of the Bank of Ireland (former President of the Past Pupils’ Union)

Norman Kilroy, former Chief Executive Grafton Group (former Chairman and serving member of the Board of Governors)

Christopher King, Professor of Mathematics, Northeastern University, Boston

Desmond King, Professor of Politics and Fellow, St John's College, Oxford

Eddie Laycock, motorcycling champion. In 1987, Eddie won the Junior TT - the first Southern rider to do so since the legendary Reg Armstrong – 30 years earlier! Also during 1987, he finished second in the Formula 2 race. The following year he won the production 250 TT and moved on to the top of world motorcycling when he raced in the 500 GP Class.  Other results included Isle of Man 1989 TT 1st Supersport 400, while the Ulster Grand Prix brought trophies for 1986 – 1st Formula Two and also 350 races, 1989 – Prince of the Road and 1st Supersport 400. Similar firsts were achieved at the Northwest 200. Information - www.theeddielaycocktrust.com

Mark Lyttle, many times Irish Champion Yachting & Olympic Helmsman

Gwendolyn Masin, violin virtuoso, author of "Michaela's House, The Magic of the Violin", founder of the international GAIA Chamber Music Festival.

Catherine Mayers (Ross), Professor of Nursing, Toronto, Canada

Brian McCracken, former Supreme Court judge, Chairman of the “Payments to Politicians” tribunal, 1997

Roly Meates studied dentistry at Dublin University, where he played as a forward with the Dublin University Football Club before moving to Wanderers. Meates coached Dublin University Football Club for 28 years, before moving to Leinster Rugby to coach for five years. He was Leinster's president in the 1968-1969 season. He became Ireland national rugby union team coach from 1975 to 1977 and later chairman of the selection board. He returned to Leinster where he worked with Matt Williams, and currently works as scrummaging coach. He serves as a governor of The High School and Chairman of the Sports Committee.

Liam Miller, Managing Director, Organisation and Development, RTE

Justin Moore Lewy, talent and literary agent

Rory Montgomery, Ireland's Permanent Representative to the European Union

The Venerable William Noblett, Chaplain to the Queen, Chaplain General and Archdeacon to Her Majesty's Prisons in England and Wales, Canon & Prebend of York Minster

David Norris, Senator

David Nowlan, managing editor, Irish Times

Denis O’Brien, one of Ireland's leading entrepreneurs, Chairman and Chief Executive of Esat Digicel group

Dr Grace O'Donovan, lecturer in environmental resource management, UCD, co-author of The Magic of Coole and The Bogs of Ireland

Cuan Barra O Seireadáin, musician

Macdara O Seireadáin, musician

Chantal O’Sullivan, owner/manager of a chain of antique shops in Dublin, Kenmare, and New York

Sir David Orr, former chairman of Unilever and of British Council.  Awarded MC in World War 2.

Phil Orr, capped 58 times as a prop forward for the Irish rugby team and once in 1977 for the Lions tour of New Zealand

John Robbie, played as scrum half for the Irish rugby team, the Lions and captained the province of Transvaal.  He is now a prominent TV and radio personality in Johannesburg South Africa .

Trevor Sargent, former TD, Minister of State for Food and Horticulture, and leader of the Green Party

Robert Schouten, Managing Director, ING Bank, Amsterdam

Alan Shatter, Minister for Justice

Canon Ian Sherwood OBE, has represented the Archbishop of Canterbury to the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople for 22 years and has established notable educational and refugee charities in Istanbul. He is the Chaplain to Her Majesty's Consulate-General in Istanbul. He was awarded the OBE by the Queen in 2005 for his services to ecumenism and outstanding pastoral care of refugees over many years.

Carl Smythe, Professor of Cell Biology, University of Sheffield

Simon Thompson, Headmaster, Midleton College, Cork

Alan Vaux, Chair, Psychology Deptartment, Southern Illinois University

Bernard Walton, film and TV producer

David Went, Chairman of Irish Times and the Trinity Foundation

Robert Willis, former CEO Irish Life (former Chairman and retired member of the Board of Governors)

Ian Young, Managing Director, Irish International Group

 

Alton, Ernest Henry (1873–1952), classical scholar, public representative, and Provost of Trinity College, Dublin (1942-52)

Armstrong, Reg (1926-1979), runner-up five times in the World Road Racing Championships, won seven World Championship Grand Prix races between 1952 and 1956, and the Isle of Man Senior 500 cc TT in 1952

Beattie, John Hugh Marshall (1915–1990), social anthropologist

Dagg, Thomas Sidney Charles (1875–1964), civil servant, hockey player, and hockey administrator

D'Arcy, Charles Frederick (1859–1938), Church of Ireland clergyman, bishop, and religious writer

Delahunty, Michael (‘Mick’; ‘Mick Del’) (1915–92), musician and bandleader

Digges, Joseph Robert Garven (1857–1933), Anglican clergyman and beekeeper

Duggan, George Chester (1885–1969), civil servant

Henry Albert Hinkson (1865–1919), novelist, barrister, and classical scholar

Jeffares, Alexander Norman (1920–2005), literary scholar

Jeffcott, Henry Homan (1877–1937), engineer

Lumsden, Sir John (1869–1944), physician and founder of the St John's Ambulance Brigade in Ireland

Lyons, Francis Stewart Leland (1923–83), historian and Provost of Trinity College, Dublin (1974-81)

MacIlwaine, John Bedell Stanford (1857–1945), landscape painter and inventor

Magee, William Kirkpatrick (‘John Eglinton’) (1868–1961), essayist

Maunsell, Robert Charles Butler (1872–1930), doctor

Mitchell, David Michael (1909–95), physician

Mitchell, George Francis (‘Frank’) (1912–97), environmental historian, archaeologist, geologist, and educator; sometime Professor of Quaternary Studies, Trinity College, Dublin and President of the Royal Irish Academy

Noyek (Noyk), Michael (1884–1966), lawyer and republican activist

O'Connell, Frederick William (1876–1929), clergyman and Irish-language scholar

Rodway, Norman (1929-2001), accountant, teacher, university lecturer, and actor

Stevenson, Walter Clegg (1871-1931), pioneered the use of radium in Ireland and worked closely with John Joly (after whom his eldest son was named). In honour of his work the oncology ward in St James’s Hospital was named Walter Stevenson Ward.

Thompson, Edward Arthur (1914–1994), classicist and historian

Thrift, William Edward (1870–1942), academic, politician, and Provost of Trinity College, Dublin (1937-42)

Warnock, William (1911–86), diplomat

Woods, Stanley (1903-93), world champion motorcyclist in the 1930s

Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939), poet and playwright