Houses
As the school expanded Kilbreda developed school houses and as more students joined the school the number of houses increased. The housing system was started on 2 May 1934 with the three houses:
- Kilbreda - green - to honour St. Brigid
- Lisieux - red - to honour St. Therese
- Padua - fawn - to honour St. Anthony
In 1945 the house Lourdes was added to the housing system making the houses:
- Kilbreda - green
- Lisieux - red
- Padua - fawn
- Lourdes - gold - to honour Our Lady of Lourdes
1963 saw the addition of two more teams, Alacoque and Delany. So the houses present in 1963 were:
- Kilbreda - green
- Lisieux - red
- Padua - fawn/white
- Lourdes - gold
- Alacoque - light blue - to honour Mother Alacoque Bourke, the founder of the convent school
- Delany - dark blue - to honour Daniel Delany, the founder of the Brigidine Sisters.
These school houses were kept till 2006 when they were changed to:
- Brigid - green - named after one of the patron saints of Ireland St Brigid who hence the name of the brigidine schools
- Kildare - blue - means "place of the oak". It is where Brigid established her first monastery.
- Delany - gold - Bishop Daniel Delany refounded the Brigidine Order in 1887 to help educate the community.
- Tullow - red - where Bishop Daniel Delany refounded the Brigidine order.
Read more about this topic: Kilbreda College
Famous quotes containing the word houses:
“The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the townlets wither a time and die.”
—John Steinbeck (1902–1968)
“Dear God! the very houses seem asleep;
And all that mighty heart is lying still!”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
“In America the taint of sectarianism lies broad upon the land. Not content with acknowledging the supremacy as the Diety, and with erecting temples in his honor, where all can bow down with reverence, the pride and vanity of human reason enter into and pollute our worship, and the houses that should be of God and for God, alone, where he is to be honored with submissive faith, are too often merely schools of metaphysical and useless distinctions. The nation is sectarian, rather than Christian.”
—James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)