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Crescent College Comprehensive SJ, formerly known as the College of the Sacred Heart, is a secondary school located on {{convert|40|acre|m2}} of parkland at Dooradoyle, Limerick, Ireland. The college is one of a number of Jesuit schools in Ireland.

The Sunday Times table of the top performing 400 schools in Ireland, published in June 2016, placed Crescent College 24th in terms of provision of graduates to university and tertiary colleges, and ranked Crescent as the 5th best school in Munster.^[1] According to the Irish Independent, Crescent has educated executives from two of the top three companies in Ireland: Google's John Herlihy and Microsoft's Paul Rellis.^[2]

History

16th to 18th centuries

The first Jesuit school in Ireland was established at Limerick in 1565 by the Apostolic Visitor of the Holy See David Wolfe. Wolfe had been sent to Ireland in 1563 by Pope Pius IV with the concurrence of the third Jesuit General, Diego Lainez. Wolfe, originally from a Limerick merchant family, joined the Jesuits at Rome in 1550, and was appointed Rector of the College at Modena at the recommendation of Loyola.^[3]

Wolfe arrived in Ireland with another Irish Jesuit called 'Dermot' in January 1561,^[3] and had been charged with correcting "all manner of lapses from the church, and chiefly heresies and schismatical faults", and also to set up grammar schools‘as a remedy against the profound ignorance of the people’.^[4] In 1565 he founded the first Irish Counter-Reformation school at Limerick, which opened at Castle Lane, and was entrusted to the Society of Jesus (Jesuits).

Wolfe delegated the foundation of the school to Edmund O'Donnell, better known as Daniel. Another Jesuit from England, William Good joined Daniel soon after, though they had a turbulent relationship.^[5] Originally it had been proposed, with Primate Richard Creagh's approval, that Good would be appointed rector of a Catholic university foundation in Ireland, which was intended to be established at Limerick. Good had been a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and late headmaster of Wells Grammar School, under Queen Mary I. He had abandoned a career in the Anglican Church, having been a Canon at Wells Cathedral, and left for the continent when the Church of England was re-established after the accession of Elizabeth I in 1562.^[6] Archbishop Creagh's plans for a Catholic university came to nothing and instead, Good was assigned to teaching at the Limerick foundation.

A number of Good's reports survive in the Jesuit archives at Rome^[7] and he records an early example of a school play in Ireland, which was performed on the Feast of St John in 1566. It was decided that the education offered should be free, based only on voluntary contributions, in the spirit of Ignatius's Roman College founded 14 years before, where no fee was requested from pupils.

Despite the goodwill of the City Council, in late 1568 the Castle Lane School, in the presence of Daniel and Good, was attacked and looted by government agents sent by Sir Thomas Cusack during the pacification of Munster.^[8] The political and religious climate had become more uncertain in the lead up to Pope Pius V's formal excommunication of the Queen, which resulted in a new wave of repression of Catholicism in England and Ireland. This had implications for the Castle Lane school which, for a time, had to move out of the city and was placed under the Earl of Desmond's protection at Kilmallock in County Limerick.^[4] Later, the school was able to move back to the city for a short time, However, in 1568 the Anglican Bishop of Meath, Hugh Brady, was sent to Limerick charged with a Royal Commission to seek out and expel the Jesuits. Daniel was immediately ordered to quit the city and went to Lisbon, where he resumed his studies with the Portuguese Jesuits.^[8] Good moved on to Clonmel, before establishing himself at Youghal until 1577.^[9]

In 1571, after Wolfe had been captured and imprisoned at Dublin Castle.^[3] Daniel persuaded the Portuguese Province to agree a surety for the ransom of Wolfe, who was quickly banished on release. Daniel returned to Ireland the following year, but was immediately captured and incriminating documents were found on his person, which were taken as proof of his involvement with the rebellious cousin of the Earl of Desmond, James Fitzmaurice and a Spanish plot.^[10] He was removed from Limerick, taken to Cork "just as if he were a thief or noted evildoer". After being court-marshalled by the Lord President of Munster, Sir John Perrot, he was sentenced to be hanged, drawn, and quartered for treason and refused pardon in return for swearing the Act of Supremacy. His execution was carried out on 25 October 1572 and a report of it was sent by Fitzmaurice to the Jesuit Superior General in 1576, where he said that Daniel was "cruelly killed because of me".^[5] His execution was memorialized in a number of contemporary woodcuts printed at Prague.

With Daniel dead and Wolfe dismissed, the Irish Jesuit foundation suffered a severe setback. Good is recorded as resident at Rome by 1577 and in 1586 the seizure of Earl of Desmond's estates resulted in a new permanent Protestant plantation in Munster, making the continuation of the Limerick school impossible for a time. It wasn't until the early 1600s that the school could again re-open in the city, though the Jesuits kept a low profile existence in lodgings here and there. These houses and schools were subject to periodic crackdown and the occasional destruction of schools, imprisonment of teachers and the levying of heavy money penalties on parents are recorded in publications of the time. For instance in 1615-17 the Royal Visitation Books, written up by Thomas Jones - the Anglican Archbishop of Dublin, records the suppression of Jesuit schools at Waterford, Limerick and Galway.^[11]

The Jesuit School opened and closed intermittently over the next two centuries in or around the area of Castle Lane, near Lahiffy's lane. During demolition work Stones marked I.H.S., 1642 and 1609 were, in the 19th Century, found inserted in a wall behind a tan yard near St Mary's Chapel which, according to Lenihan, were thought to mark the site of an early Jesuit School and Oratory. This building, at other times, had also functioned as a dance house and candle factory.^[12]

The Jesuit Annals record a 'flourishing' school at Limerick in the 1640s^[13] and during the Confederacy the Jesuits had been able to go about their business unhindered and were invited to preach publicly from the pulpit of St Mary's Cathedral on 4 occasions. Cardinal Rinuccini wrote to the Jesuit General in Rome praising the work of the Rector of the Limerick College, Fr William O’Hurley, who was aided by Fr Thomas Burke.^[14] Begley states that this school 'flourished' from 1649,^[15] however just a few years later, during the Protectorate era, only 18 of the Jesuits resident in Ireland managed to avoid capture by the authorities. Lenihan records that the Limerick College SJ, in 1656, moved to a hut in the middle of a bog which was difficult for the authorities to find. This foundation was headed up by Fr Nicholas Punch who was aided by Frs Maurice Patrick, Piers Creagh and James Forde and the school attracted a large number of students from around the locality.^[16]

At the Restoration of Charles II the school was again re-established, once more at Castle Lane, and remained open until the surrender of the city to Williamite forces in 1692. In 1671 Dr James Douley was appointed Vicar Apostolic of Limerick and during his visitation to the Diocese reported to the Holy See that the Jesuits had a house and 'taught schools with great fruit, instructing the youth in the articles of faith and good morals'.^[17] Dr Douley also noted that this and other Catholic schools operating in the Diocese were also attended by local Protestants.^[18]

The number of Jesuits in Ireland at this time ebbed and flowed. By 1700 they were only 6 or 7, recovering to 25 by 1750. Besides Limerick, Jesuit houses and schools existed at Athlone, Carrick-on-Suir, Cashel, Clonmel, Kilkenny, Waterford, New Ross, Wexford, and Drogheda, as well as Dublin and Galway. Begley states that Fr Thomas O'Gorman was the first Jesuit to return to Limerick after the siege, arriving in 1728 and he took up residence in Jail Lane, near the Castle in the Englishtown. There he opened a school to 'impart the rudiments of the classics to the better class youth of the city.^[19] Fr O'Gorman left in 1737 and was succeeded by Fr John McGrath.^[20] Next came Father James McMahon, who was a nephew of the Primate of Armagh, Hugh MacMahon. Fr McMahon lived at Limerick for thirteen years until his death in 1751. In 1746 Father Joseph Morony was sent from Bordeaux to join Father McMahon and the others.^[21] Fr Morony remained at the Jail Lane site teaching at what Begley states was a 'high class school' until 1773 when he was ordered to close the School and Oratory following the Papal suppression of the Society of Jesus,^[22] 208 years after its foundation by Wolfe. Fr Morony then went to live in Dublin and worked as a secular priest.^[29]

Despite the efforts of the Castle authorities and English government the Limerick school managed to survive the Protestant Reformation, the Cromwellian invasion and Williamite Wars, and subsequent Penal Laws. It was finally forced to close - not for religious or confessional reasons - but due to the political difficulties of the Jesuit Order elsewhere.

Some commemorative inscription stones from Castle Lane, dating from the 16th and 17th centuries, were built into the external walls of the old Georgian school buildings at the Crescent in Limerick city centre.^[23] Another stone from the Castle Lane site, inscribed with a cross and the motto IHS, dated 1642 was brought to Dooradoyle in 1973 and was placed above the 1973 Foundation stone of the present site.

19th and early 20th centuries

Following the restoration of the Society of Jesus in 1814, the Jesuits gradually re-established a number of their schools throughout the country, starting with foundations at Kildare and Dublin. They returned to Limerick at the invitation of the Bishop of Limerick, Dr. John Ryan, in 1859 and also re-established a school at Galway in the same year. Negotiations between the Order and the Diocese of Limerick were conducted at Rome rather than Ireland, and it was agreed that the new school would be a day school only.^[24] The Irish Vice Provincial, Fr Joseph Lentaigne, reluctantly agreed given the demands of existing Irish Jesuit Houses^[25] and at the beginning of the 1859 school year the Bishop's school was entrusted to Jesuit management.^[26] The pioneer Jesuit community in 1859 consisted in Frs. Edward Kelly (1824-1905) (Rector), Thomas Kelly (1829-1898), Peter Foley (1826-1893), Edmund Hogan (1831-1917), Matthew Saurin (1825-1901), and one scholastic, Mr. Matthew Russell (1834-1912).^[27]

This diocesan college operated initially at premises in Hartstone Street, which had been occupied by the Sisters of the Faithful Companions of Jesus, before they purchased Laurel Hill House and established a school for girls there. Paul Connolly, from a Limerick City family, was the first pupil enrolled, and also attending that day was the future Bishop of Limerick, Edward O'Dwyer.^[28]

The curriculum included ancient classics, mathematics, and modern languages (English and French). German was added later and the school prospectus advertised that boys were to be prepared "for the University and the Ecclesiastical Colleges; for the Learned Professions; for the Public Service – Civil and Military; and for the department of Mercantile and Commercial Life".^[29]

In 1862 the Jesuits acquired Crescent House and three neighbouring buildings towards the southern end of the Georgian Crescent. Crescent House was a large city residence which had been vacated by a local banking family, the Russells. By tradition Mr Richard Russell, while in residence, had ordered all the blinds of the house closed so he wouldn't have to look upon John Hogan's statute of Daniel O'Connell, recently erected in the middle of the Crescent.^[23] The Georgian house on the Crescent property had a large garden and a number of vacant neighbouring sites, offering possibilities for expansion. However the Jesuits had paid a large sum for Crescent House and they initially postponed plans for a neighbouring church until this debt was lessened. It wasn't until 1864 that the execution of plans for the church commenced and although the garden of Crescent House was large, it wasn't sufficient to house the new church so additional properties had to be purchased.^[23]

At this time the school suffered a setback when the Jesuits quarreled with Bishop Ryan's successor, Dr George Butler. The Limerick community had taken a neutral stance during the 1868 election, which caused a caustic response from the local clergy and press, and a number of boys were withdrawn from the school as a result.^[30] Accordingly, Bishop Butler removed the Diocesan College from their care, moving it back to Hartstone Street.^[31] The Jesuits, however, continued with their own school at the newly acquired buildings at the Crescent, which became independent of the Diocese and was renamed Sacred Heart College.^[32]

The school at the Crescent, and the attached chapel, were dedicated first to St Aloysius Gonzaga, but rededicated to the Sacred Heart in 1868 after the school chapel was enlarged and opened for public worship. This was the first church and school in Ireland dedicated to the cult of the Sacred Heart, popularised centuries before in France by Claude de la Colombiere, S.J. Sacred Heart College, like Belvedere College in Dublin, became recognised by the name of its premises, and was popularly known as Crescent College, or "the Crescent". Crescent was a fee-paying school catering in the main to the city's growing Catholic middle class, and received no government support. In its early years Sacred Heart (Crescent) College struggled to survive in competition with the Bishop's school and many students enrolled in the preparatory school left for boarding schools as they became older.^[33] The Province accordingly sent a new generation of able Jesuit administrators to get the college back on its feet, including Thomas A. Finlay and Peter Finlay in 1879, which brought a new vigour.^[34] When the results of the first nationwide Intermediate Examinations were published in 1879 a Crescent boy, Charles Doyle (later a Judge of the King's Bench), obtained first place in Ireland.^[35] This was seen as a victory for Catholic schools in receipt of no public endowment or subsidy and messages of congratulation were sent from many quarters, including the Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Walsh.^[36]

Further innovations came in 1874 when the rector, Fr William Ronan, S.J., invited a French Jesuit colleague Fr Jean Baptiste René to establish an Apostolic College at Crescent House as a seminary for men of little means. This proved a success, but overcrowding with the day pupils necessitated expansion. An appeal was launched to the Bishops of Ireland and by their aid the Jesuits were able to acquire an adjoining house beside the College in 1880.^[37] In September 1882 the Apostolic College relocated to new premises at Mungret, with funds provided by a local Catholic nobleman, the Earl of Emly.^[38] These schools were again to be joined together when Mungret College merged with Crescent in 1974.^[39]

During the national struggle for independence, 1916–1922, a Jesuit called Fr. William Hackett established the Crescent Volunteers.^[40]

Fr Hackett was disappointed with the results of his efforts and lamented the presence of many 'seonins' in Crescent College - and the Volunteers were shut down by the rector in 1917, though training camps were still being held as late as 1920.^[41] Masked Crown forces raided the school on two occasions in November 1920.^[42]

Late 20th and early 21st centuries

In 1939, the school population remained under 130 – but by the 1940s it grew to 300 boys, rising to over 500 by the 1960s.^[43] A biography of Fr William Hackett reveals his belief that parents who sent their children to Jesuit schools were "making their way into the upper middle class on the back of the Jesuit vow of poverty".^[44] Hackett was not unique in this view, and the Generalship of Pedro Arrupe urged the Jesuits to return to the original Ignatian vision and the spirit of the early Jesuit schools. As part of this reflection many Jesuit schools re-evaluated their role. In Britain, four Jesuit schools became Comprehensive in the 1960s, and it was proposed that the Crescent in Limerick and Gonzaga College in Dublin should adopt a comprehensive curriculum in a new relationship with the Minister for Education, and cease to be fee-paying schools. Negotiations opened in the late 1960s at the invitation of the then Minister and former pupil Donagh O'Malley, who had been a classmate of the Jesuit Provincial, Cecil McGarry, S.J.^[45] The comprehensive scheme proceeded in Limerick only,^[46] and this ushered in a period of reform and expansion under Fr Thomas Morrissey: the name Sacred Heart College was dropped and "Crescent College Comprehensive SJ" adopted in recognition of the more common name of the school.{{fact|date=March 2019}}

The redesignation of the school as a comprehensive was not without controversy and the Limerick Trades Council complained in the media of the unsuitability of Jesuits to run such a school, given their association with upper-class education. The board of management met with the Council and argued that the Society's schools in Limerick before the suppression had been free. The government's new scheme, they argued, gave the Society an opportunity to return to its earlier tradition, bringing the benefits of Jesuit education to all classes.^[47]

In 21st century review of a work on the history of the Crescent, edited by Anthony White and published for the sesquicentenary of the College, Dr Daire Keogh of DCU critiques an article written by Fr Morrissey. Keogh argued that the Jesuit initiative at Limerick didn't reflect the 'option for the poor' as promoted by Pedro Arrupe. Rather, he argued, the accommodation at Limerick reflected "the desire of the Minister for Education to secure a Jesuit endorsement for a new model of schooling, approval which would lift the [SIC middle classes view] of what were often dubbed 'contraceptive schools'".^[48]

In 1971, the Georgian school buildings at Crescent House were found to be structurally unsound, overcrowded, and not adaptable to expansion. Some thought was given to a relocation to Mungret College, but after consideration the Mungret site was deemed to be too far outside the city catchment area. Instead land was purchased at Dooradoyle in 1973, resulting in the demolition of the McMahon historical seat (a family closely related to the French Dukes of Magenta). Shortly afterwards the Crescent Shopping Centre opened beside the school from which it was named.{{fact|date=March 2019}}

In 1978 Crescent became the first Irish Jesuit school to become partially co-educational, with a ratio of 3 boys to 1 girl, and Coláiste Iognáid Galway followed later^[49] The preparatory school, which had remained at Crescent House, was phased out over 5 years after the transfer of the senior school to Dooradoyle and closed in 1978^[50] as the Department of Education declined to allow boys an automatic right of entry to the secondary school. At Dooradoyle a number of curriculum changes were undertaken and Crescent, along with Gonzaga in Dublin, became the first schools in Ireland to offer a transition year. Other changes, such as a Classical Studies programme in the 1970s and a special "Irish Studies" programme for first years, were later phased out and not adopted in other schools.^[51] In the 1980s, in collaboration with then National Institute for Higher Education in Limerick (subsequently UL), students from Crescent were able to study computer and technology courses at Leaving Certificate level, allowing entry to third level courses.^[52]

In June 2015 Crescent beat 25 other schools in the Irish Science Teachers' Association Junior Science Quiz.^[53] In 2011 they won a European Space Agency competition^[54] and represented Ireland in Norway,^[55]^[56] finishing third among teams from fourteen countries, with their satellite in a can.^[57]

Girls' hockey and boys' rugby are the main sports, though many other contact and noncontact activities are offered.^[26] The girls have competed in futsal.^[58] Rugby at Crescent developed from the late 1940s under coach Fr. Gerry Guinane, and in that time Crescent had some success in the Munster Schools Senior Cup, constituting one of the big five rugby schools in Munster and seeded in the top 8 schools at Provincial level.^[59] It has won a number of senior titles since the cup's inception in 1909,^[60] winning the Schools Senior Cups on rugby 11 occasions in 1947, 1949, 1951, 1963, 1983, 1986, 1989, 1990, 1994, 2013 and 2014.^[61] The school is represented nationally at club level by Old Crescent RFC, which is now an open club.{{fact|date=March 2019}}

In 2010 Crescent was named Munster rugby and hockey School of the Year, and in 2011 Richard Butler, Chairman of Limerick County Council, hosted a reception at the County Hall to mark the sporting achievements of the school in that year.^[62] The girls' hockey team won the Kate Russell All-Ireland Hockey Championship in 2015.^[63] Both boys and girls have represented the Munster and Irish teams in rugby ^[64]^[65]^[66]^[67] and hockey^[68]^[69]^[70] at various levels. In 2017, the boys won the all-Ireland basketball title.^[71] The college won the Munster Irish Schools Championship in golf in 2008 at senior level and 2011 at junior level.^[72]

According to some media outlets in Limerick, "the school has a long-standing successful reputation for drama and the performing arts".^[73] The school has an award-winning choir and orchestra, taking part annually in the Feis Ceoil classical music festival at the RDS in Dublin, Winning first place in 1996^[74] and second place in 1984,^[75] 2005^[76] and 2006.^[74] In 2013 a 30-member Orchestra and 65 strong choir recorded a song for the Waltons Music for Schools Competition and achieved 2nd place nationally at a performance in the National Concert Hall, Dublin.^[77] An annual musical school show raises money for charity.^[90] and the school orchestra gives a public concert at Christmas.{{fact|date=March 2019}}

The College also maintains an active chapter of the Society of St Vincent de Paul, which has an annual 'sleep out',.^[78] Other activities include the 'Fast Friends' programme and the Arrupé Project in Africa. Students also participate in mandatory social placement programme for fifth-year students.^[79] In line with its objective of educating men and women for others,^[80] in 2011 the school hosted the opening of the website Why Care? which is run by the Jesuit Center for Faith and Justice in Dublin. It seeks to keep teachers and students alike abreast of social problems afflicting Ireland.^[81]^[82]^[83]

Crescent now sits on 40 acres of grounds and gardens landscaped by Fr William Troddyn and the late school gardener, P.J. Brennan, who together 'purloined' clippings and bulbs from the Limerick region in order to use on the grounds of Crescent, including an avenue of copper beeches.^[84] The school also maintains a nature garden to attract wildlife to the campus.^[85]

Today the school operates under the joint trusteeship of the Society of Jesus and the Minister for Education,^[26] with the Jesuit Provincial appointing a majority on the Board of Management and the chair of the board is someone appointed by him.^[86] The ethos is Jesuit and Catholic though most of the current teaching staff are lay-persons,^[87] and a number of Jesuit priests live on campus at the residence, Della Strada, which hosts the Jesuit Refugee Service.^[88] In 2001 the school appointed its first lay headmaster.^[26]^[90]

Crescent offers a six-year curriculum, and classes are divided into five lines, each named after a Jesuit patron.{{fact|date=March 2019}}

In June 2006, Sacred Heart Church closed, ending the connection of 150 years with Crescent House – from which the school took its name. A House of Prayer and Spirituality has located at the Jesuit Residence in Dooradoyle. The Sacred Heart Church building, after a long vacancy, was purchased by a Traditionalist Order, the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest.{{fact|date=March 2019}}

Notable alumni

Crescent College in popular culture

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