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Belvedere College SJ
Coláiste Belvedere
Crest of Belvedere College SJ
Motto Per vias rectas
Latin for "By straight paths"
Established 1832
Location Great Denmark Street, Dublin 1,
Ireland
Students 936
Headmaster Mr Michael Gerard Foley
Religious order Society of Jesus
Homepage http://www.belvederecollege.ie

Belvedere College SJ is a private secondary school for boys located on Great Denmark Street, Dublin, Ireland. Latin ( lingua Latīna, laˈtiːna is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Year 1832 ( MDCCCXXXII) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Dublin's postal districts are Northside Ireland ( Irish: Éire, ˈeːrʲə is a country in north-western Europe. The Society of Jesus ( Latin: Societas Iesu, SJ and SI or SJ, SI) is a Catholic religious order Secondary school is a term used to describe an educational Institution where the final stage of compulsory schooling known as Secondary education, takes Dublin (ˈdʌblɨn/ /ˈdʊblɨn or /ˈdʊbəlɪn/, bˠalʲə aːha klʲiəh or cliə(ɸ is both the largest city and capital of Ireland. Ireland (pronounced /ˈaɾlənd/ Éire) is the third largest island in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world It is also known as St. Francis Xavier's College

One of Ireland's oldest schools, Belvedere was founded in 1832 and celebrated its sesquicentenary (150th anniversary) in 1982. Saint Francis Xavier ( Konkani / Konknni: Sam Fransisku Xavier/ Sanv Fransisk Xavier Basque: San Frantzisko Xabierkoa Spanish: San Francisco An anniversary (from the Latin anniversarius, from the words for year and to turn meaning (returning yearly known in English since c. The school currently has in excess of 930 pupils enrolled and has a number of famous alumni in the world of the arts, politics, sport, science and business.

George Augustus Rochfort (1738-1814), who became the Second Earl of Belvedere in 1774, built Belvedere House, one of the most dominant buildings on the school's campus and best surviving examples of Georgian architecture in Ireland. The title Earl of Belvedere (alternative spelling Earl of Belvidere was created in 1756 in the Peerage of Ireland. The title Earl of Belvedere (alternative spelling Earl of Belvidere was created in 1756 in the Peerage of Ireland. Year 1774 ( MDCCLXXIV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Georgian architecture is the name given in most English -speaking countries to the set of Architectural styles current between 1720 and 1840

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Jesuit ethos

Belvedere College is run by the Jesuit order. The Society of Jesus ( Latin: Societas Iesu, SJ and SI or SJ, SI) is a Catholic religious order Most of the school's current teaching staff are now lay-persons, although a number of Jesuit priests and brothers take part in the school's administration and chaplaincy.

The Jesuit ethos of social justice for all and educating "men for others" are keystones of the Belvedere College culture and education philosophy. The Society of Jesus ( Latin: Societas Iesu, SJ and SI or SJ, SI) is a Catholic religious order The school recently celebrated the 500th birthday of the patron saint of the college, St. Francis Xavier. Saint Francis Xavier ( Konkani / Konknni: Sam Fransisku Xavier/ Sanv Fransisk Xavier Basque: San Frantzisko Xabierkoa Spanish: San Francisco

Charitable activities

For example, some students travel with the Dublin Pilgrimage to Lourdes, France to assist the elderly and the disabled, others take part in an exchange programme with students of Saint Xavier's Collegiate School, Calcutta, India, where they assist in homes for orphans and street-children. Lourdes ( Occitan: Lorda) is a town and commune situated in the southwest of the Hautes-Pyrénées department, lying in the first Pyrenean This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. School Introduction St Xavier's Collegiate School was established in 1860 in Calcutta, India by missionaries of the Society of Jesus. India, officially the Republic of India (भारत गणराज्य inc-Latn Bhārat Gaṇarājya; see also other Indian languages) is a country Belvedere's St. Vincent de Paul Society is one of the largest of any secondary school in Ireland, organising activities such as old-folks events and flat decoration in inner city Dublin. St Vincent de Paul and Church of St Vincent de Paul redirect here Since 1981, certain students also undertake a charity walk from Dublin to Galway every summer in order to raise funds for Irish Guide Dogs For The Blind and The Temple Street Children's Hospital (which is located near the school). Galway (Gaillimh is the only city in the province of Connacht in Ireland. In the past, the "block-pull", as it is known, has raised over €70,000.

An annual charitable fundraising event held by the College is the "Belvedere Sleep-Out", which takes place from December 22 to 24th each year. The definition of charitable organization, and of charity varies according to the country and in some instances the region of the country in which the charitable organization operates Events 1790 - The Turkish fortress of Izmail is stormed and captured by Suvorov and his Russian armies Events 563 - The Byzantine church Hagia Sophia in Constantinople is dedicated for the second time after being destroyed by Earthquakes Students "go homeless" on Dublin's O'Connell Street for 3 days and 2 nights. Dublin (ˈdʌblɨn/ /ˈdʊblɨn or /ˈdʊbəlɪn/, bˠalʲə aːha klʲiəh or cliə(ɸ is both the largest city and capital of Ireland. O'Connell Street (Sráid Uí Chonaill is Dublin 's main thoroughfare The Sleep-Out is run by a primarily by students from the College, with the assistance of a number of teachers, to raise funds for Focus Ireland, The Home Again Society and Father Peter McVerry's Society for homeless boys. Focus Ireland is a nonprofit organization based in Dublin, Ireland that provides services for Homeless people The students fast for 24 hours of the Sleep-Out. The culmination of the event is Christmas Eve midnight mass, in the college chapel. In the past, the college has managed to raise over €137,000 in a single Christmas period for the charities. The euro sign (€ is the Currency sign used for the Euro, the official currency of the European Union (EU

Belvedere College has an active alumni association - the Belvedere College Past Pupils' Union, the aim of which is to encourage social interchange among Belvederians and to promote the aims of the Society to which the College belongs. The Union has a number of sub-committees including the Belvedere Youth Club, which provides social, recreational and educational facilities for youth in the Dublin city centre area, and Belvedere Social Services, which provides housing for young vulnerable homeless boys who would otherwise be at grave risk, and facilitates them with opportunities for training and employment.

Admissions

Under Irish law, school entrance exams are prohibited. Potential students and their parents now undergo an interview with a faculty member. Preference is given to brothers of current Belvedere students and the sons of Old Belvederians. Although private and therefore fee-paying, the school awards a number of full scholarships each year (around 10-15% of the overall student number) in furtherance of the school's aim to be socially just. It is not an academic scholarship or it is not a sports scholarship. The scholarship is designed to assist those families who are not in a position to pay fees.

Facilities

Extensive facilities at the school include a swimming pool, gymnasium, state-of-the-art science and technology block, modern restaurant, refectory, music suite, learning resource centre, museum, chapel, oratory, theatre (which has the biggest stage of any school in Ireland), rooftop astro-turf pitch, tennis courts and rugby, cricket and soccer pitches (located on the Distillery Road in Drumcondra, Dublin and on the Navan Road in Cabra, Dublin). The word γυμνάσιον (gymnasion was used in Ancient Greece, meaning a locality for both physical and intellectual Education of young men (see Gymnasium Theatre (or theater, see spelling differences) is the branch of the Performing arts defined by Bernard Beckerman as what "occurs when one Ireland (pronounced /ˈaɾlənd/ Éire) is the third largest island in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world Drumcondra ( is a residential area and inner suburb on the Northside of Dublin, Ireland. Cabra ( Cabrach in Irish) is a suburb on the northside of Dublin city in Ireland, approximately 5km north-west of the city

Belvdere College S. J. has installed one of the most sophisticated computer systems of any Irish school. Driven by an extremely computer-literate staff the college has many interactive white boards,3 computer labs, cabled and wireless networking to every classroom and many other IT features including dedicated networks for the library, Special Education, Careers, Music and Art. In 2006 Belvedere won the All Ireland RoboCup and represented Ireland in Bremen, Germany, where the team won 'The Best Poster Award'. In 2007 the College were runners-up in the same competition.

Sports

Belvedere College has a strong rugby union football tradition. Overview See also Playing rugby union A rugby union match lasts for 80 minutes (plus stoppage time with a short In 2005, for the first time in the school's history, they won both the Leinster Junior Cup and Leinster Senior Cup. This is a rugby competition for 14/15 year olds After the Leinster Schools Senior Cup, it is the most important rugby competition in Ireland Only Blackrock College (65) have won the Leinster Senior Cup more times than Belvedere (10). Blackrock College (Coláiste na Carraige Duibhe is a Catholic, private voluntary, fee-paying Secondary school for boys located in Williamstown They are the current holders of the Leinster Senior Cup, after beating St. Mary's College by one point in the thrilling 2008 final[1]

Cricket has also, traditionally, been a strong sport within the school. Cricket is a bat-and-ball team Sport that originated in England and is now played in more than 100 countries Belvedere has won both the Leinster Senior and Junior Cups more times than any other Leinster school.

Belvedere's Lifesaving club is also very successful, with a number of All-Ireland Titles to their credit and students have successfully represented Ireland at International Lifesaving Competitions.

Basketball has also become a prominent sport in the school, with the under-19 team reaching the All-Ireland Championships and finishing third in 2002.

Athletics is also one of the colleges most successful sports. They have won every trophy possible, and always do exceptionally well in the all-Irelands each year.

1996 saw Belvedere win the Dublin Metropolitan Schools Soccer Cup defeating schools with a much steeper history in the Cup. The final saw them face Tallaght CS which fielded Irish Internationals Robbie Keane and Jason Gavin. The team went on to win the Leinster title in the same year.

Other Co-Curricular Activities

Belvedere has numerous co-curricular and cultural activities.

The school has debating societies in the English, Irish and French languages. Belvedere has won the All-Ireland schools debating competition on a number of occasions (most recently in 2005) and also the Alliance Française debating championship. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

Belvedere was successful in the last ever series of Blackboard Jungle, a popular television programme on RTÉ.

Drama productions form an integral part of Belvedere's year. Each academic year, there are four performances: A Junior Musical, a Senior Musical, a Drama Society production, and a first year play. Belvedere's productions are famous for their profesionality. Ths school has produced, amongst others , the Irish premiers of both Les Miserables (the student-version), in 2004 and the stage adaptation of His Dark Materials, in 2007. Les Misérables (pronounced /le miːzeʁabl(ə translated variously from French as The Miserable Ones, The Wretched His Dark Materials is a Trilogy of Fantasy Novels by Philip Pullman comprising Northern Lights (1995 Other productions of note include Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street, Bugsy Malone, David Copperfield, Jesus Christ Superstar and The Wind In The Willows. Bugsy Malone is a 1976 Musical film, very loosely based on events in Chicago Illinois in the Prohibition era specifically the Jesus Christ Superstar is a Rock opera by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber. The Wind in the Willows is a classic of Children's literature by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908.

The school's Concert Choir has been in existence for many years. The Choir hosts the Annual Christmas Carol Service in December, and the Annual Musical Evening, which usually takes place in May. Events in December Union Day of Romania (1 December World AIDS Day ( December 1) National Day of MAY ( also known as: Mei メイ 메이 is a Korean singer well known in South Korea for singing the song "Miracle" The Choir have undertaken recordings in RTÉ, and have been successful at both the Feis Ceoil and the Wesley Feis. Feis Ceoil ( English: Festival of Music) is an annual Irish cultural festival of music and dance

The College orchestra which is only in it's second year, has already won events at both the Wesley Feis, and the Feis Ceoil. An orchestra is an instrumental ensemble, usually fairly large with string brass woodwind sections and possibly a percussion section as well Feis Ceoil ( English: Festival of Music) is an annual Irish cultural festival of music and dance

Science

The promotion of Science has become a priority for Belvedere's Board of Management. Over € 7 million has been invested in the Dargan-Maloney Science and technology block. Dr Garret FitzGerald of the University of Pennsylvania has instituted an annual five-week scholarship to two students who excel in Transition Year science. [2]

Culture of Belvedere

College main entrance on Denmark Street, Dublin
College main entrance on Denmark Street, Dublin

The school motto is Per Vias Rectas translating as "By Straight Paths" and the College aspires to produce "Men for Others". Students often write "AMDG" the motto of the Society of Jesus, ie: Ad maiorem Dei gloriam, on the top left of pages of their copybooks. The Society of Jesus ( Latin: Societas Iesu, SJ and SI or SJ, SI) is a Catholic religious order Ad maiorem Dei gloriam or ad majorem Dei gloriam (when an "i" functions as a consonant This translates as "For the greater glory of God". Until recently the students would write "LDSetBVM" or Laus Deus Semper et Beatum Virginum Maria (Love God forever and the Blessed Virgin Mary) on the bottom right of the same page, but this practice has largely died out. Yet the writing of AMDG in copybooks is still practised today.

The unofficial school anthem, often heard at rugby matches, is "Only In God", based on Psalm 62 in the Bible. Psalms ( Hebrew: Tehilim, תהילים, or "praises" is a book of the Hebrew Bible (the Christian Old Testament) included Etymology According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the word bible is from Latin biblia, traced from the same word through Medieval Latin and Late Latin The song was first sung at rugby matches during the 1995 and 1996 Senior Cup Campaigns. The official anthem is less popular, entitled "Belvedere, Oh Belvedere" it was composed by a past pupil and recorded by the school choir in 1997.

The school yearbook is known as "The Belvederian". A yearbook, also known as an annual is a book to record highlight and commemorate the past year of a School or a book published annually The term Belvederian is also sometimes used to refer to attending students and Old Belvederian (OB) for alumni. Old Belvederians normally refer to their graduation by using the name of the final year in the college followed by the year as, for example, "OB 1984".

Belvedere College is the backdrop for much of James Joyce's novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 &ndash 13 January 1941 was an Irish expatriate writer widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a semi-autobiographical Novel by James Joyce, first serialized in The Egoist It is a semi-autobiographical piece of work, and the teacher was based on Joyce's own English teacher, George Dempsey. George Dempsey is a former American Diplomat. He served in Venezuela, Spain, Geneva (in the United Nations) and Ireland In the book Joyce mentions his involvement in the College Opera which continues today. The College's Dramatic Society performs four times during the academic year.

A museum[3] and archive[4] was opened in 2002 dedicated to the history of Belvedere College and its alumni.

Wartime Contribution

Belvedere, like many other schools in Ireland made a significant contribution to the effort of the two major world wars. Over 48 students of the college lost their lives in the First World War. Their names are listed on a new memorial in the College yard. The college also published a book entitled "The Cruel Clouds of War", which is a Roll of Honour listing Belvedere's war dead. The new war memorial was unveiled by former Taoiseach Dr. Garret Fitzgerald in 2003. 14 Students of Belvedere died between 1939 and 1945 in the Second World War. These are also listed on a memorial in the yard. One Old Belvederian has been awarded the Victoria Cross, Tom Crean VC during the Boer War. See below the section "Separate Commonwealth awards" Note that since Major Thomas Joseph Crean VC DSO ( April 19, 1873 - March 25, 1923) was born in Dublin, Ireland and Two Boer Wars were fought between the British Empire and the two independent Boer republics the Orange Free State and the South African Republic

School academic structure

In Belvedere the years and classes are divided in a non standard way, reflecting the Jesuit ethos of the school and the steps towards full education.

Secondary School:

Furthermore, in each year there are six classes or houses:

and formerly, but now discontinued:

So, if a student is placed in Loyola form in first year, he is in Elements Loyola, or EL. James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 &ndash 13 January 1941 was an Irish expatriate writer widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the He will stay in Loyola until he graduates, from Rhetoric Loyola, or RL.

To make matters seemingly more confusing to the outsider, though patently obvious to the attendee, the preparatory house in the school, since closed, had its own class naming conventions. The house was composed of the four years of school following first holy communion:

Primary School (now closed):

Within the junior school the class names were as follows:

The system continued on to the Secondary School as follows:

Notable alumni

Art & literature

Irish history & politics

Religion

Sports

Business & professional

Broadcasting

Knighthoods

See also

External links

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