Mungret College - Notable Past Pupils

Notable Past Pupils

  • The 1st Viscount Bracken, a journalist and businessman who served as a British Conservative Cabinet minister under Prime Minister Winston Churchill during World War II. Lord Bracken mainly served as Minister of Information, based at the Senate House in Bloomsbury. He also briefly served, in 1945, as First Lord of the Admiralty.
  • Gordon Wood, former rugby union footballer who represented Ireland and the British Lions during the 1950s and early 1960s.
  • Frank Fahy, T.D., Irish politician who served as Ceann Comhairle (Speaker) of Dáil Éireann (the Lower House of the Oireachtas).
  • Commandant-General Tom Barry, prominent leader of the Irish Republican Army during the Irish War of Independence.
  • The Most Rev. Dr. Michael Joseph Curley, 10th Archbishop of Baltimore and first Archbishop of Washington.
  • Dr. Timothy Cardinal Manning, Archbishop of Los Angeles from 1970 to 1985, and elevated to Cardinal in 1973.
  • The Rt Rev. Hugh Monsignor O'Flaherty, the 'Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican' during World War II. The film The Scarlet and the Black was made about the exploits of the Monsignor.
  • Joseph Walshe, leading Irish diplomat from the 1920s to the 1950s and Secretary of the Department of External Affairs during the Second World War
  • Dr. Oliver St John Gogarty, author (attended before transferring to Stonyhurst College)
  • Fr. James Coyle, priest murdered in Alabama in 1921.

The Most Reverend Hugh Boyle, first Bishop of Johannesburg, 1954-76

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