Dominicans in Ireland

Ruins of the Dominican Friary at Burrishoole, County Mayo

The Dominican Order (Order of Preachers) has been present in Ireland since 1224 when the first foundation was established in Dublin. This was quickly followed by Drogheda (also 1224), Kilkenny (1225), Waterford (1226), Limerick (1227) and Cork (1229)

List of notable Irish Dominicans

Jofroi of Waterford, fl 1300?, scribe, translator
Edmund Bourke, (d. 1738), author
Anthony Dominic Fahy, 11 January 1805 - 20 February 1871), missionary in Argentina
Wilfrid Harrington, (b. 1927), theologian
Fr. Joseph Mullooly, (1812 - 1880), archaeologist
John Thomas Troy, (10 May 1739 - 11 May 1823), Archbishop of Dublin
Roche MacGeoghegan, 1580 - 26 May 1644), Bishop of Kildare
Thomas Burke, (1709 - 25 September 1776), Bishop of Ossory
Thomas Nicholas Burke, 8 September 1830 - 2 July 1882), preacher
James Joseph Carbery, 1 May 1823 - 17 December 1887), Bishop of Hamilton, Canada
Terence Albert O'Brien, (1600 - 31 Oct 1651), Bishop of Emly, martyr
Daniel O'Daly, (1595 - 30 June 1662), diplomat and historian
Henry Flanagan, (1988), musician, artist and sculptor
Aonghus Buckley, artist

Dominican colleges

Secondary Schools in Ireland

Dominican College, Portstewart, a grammar school on north coast of Northern Ireland, run by Dominican sisters
Dominican College, Fortwilliam, a grammar school in Belfast, Northern Ireland, run by Dominican sisters
Dominican College, Galway City, Republic of Ireland, run by Dominican sisters
Newbridge College, a co-education day boarding school in Co Kildare, founded by the friars
St Dominic's Grammar School for Girls, Falls Road, Belfast, Northern Ireland, run by Dominican sisters

St Rose's Dominican College, established by the Dominicans in 1962 in Beechmount Avenue, Belfast

Further Education

Dominican Biblical Institute, a biblical research centre in Limerick, Ireland
The Priory Institute, Tallaght, Dublin, in what was the Dominican House of Studies until the year 2000
St. Saviour's Priory, Dorset St., Dublin now houses the Centre of Institutional Studies of the Irish Dominican friars

International

Dominican Convent High School, Harare, Zimbabwe, founded by an Irish Dominican nun
Saint Dominic's International School, near Lisbon, Portugal, founded by Irish Dominican sisters

Dominicans in Ireland

List of notable Irish Dominicans

Dominican colleges

Secondary Schools in Ireland

Further Education

International

See also

National Websites

Websites of Local Communities & Local Apostolates