Timeline

Senator John F Kennedy delivers a talk to students. His wife Jacqueline is close friends with Fr Joe Leonard, a staff member.

Evie Hone’s stained glass Rose Window, dedicated to the Assumption, installed in college Chapel.

The Fall of Pompey – 200-year-old Chestnut tree – said to have been used by John Beresford as a gibbet for Croppies during the 1798 rebellion.

Cardinal John Glennon, pastman, dies in Áras an Uachtaráin on a visit to Ireland. He receives almost a state funeral in All Hallows.

Con Sexton (ordained in All Hallows 1930) was Chaplain to the 8th Division of the Australian Infantry forces during WWII. He was a POW for four years in the infamous Changi camp in Japan. He returned to his diocese in 1946. All Hallows Centenary (1942). Celebrations are muted as WWII rages in Europe.

Dublin plays host to 31st International Eucharistic Congress with the theme of The Propagation of the Sainted Eucharist by Irish Missionaries.

An All Hallows past man, Denis Kelly was part of the Liverpool flying squad of the IRA in 1920, caught in action and was imprisoned in Walton prison. He went on hunger strike twice to get political prisoner recognition (unsuccessfully) and was released in 1921. He went onto help set up An Garda Síochána, working from Dublin Castle during its handover to the State. He finally retired from Newbridge College as a professor of maths in the 1930s. Kelly set …

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Ireland in political unrest. The Easter Rising of 1916 leads to a War of Independence with the British state and its forces in Ireland (1919-21), brought to an end with the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty. Disagreement between nationalists regarding the acceptance of this treaty leads to the Irish Civil War of 1922-23.

First World War. Many alumni work as Military Chaplains.

Thomas O’Donnell appointed College president. Serving from 1909-49, he is the longest-serving President of All Hallows.