News & Events Archive:

Some highlights of 2009:

• 26th December 2009 - Saint Stephen's Day
  Ordination of Rev Yousef Yakoub
  We offer our congratulations to Fr Yousef Yakoub who was ordained to the priesthood on Saint Stephen's Day in Haifa, Israel. Yousef is of the Maronite Tradition and was a seminarian in Maynooth until 2008.
  We wish Yousef every blessing in his future ministry.
  
  
• December 2009: Mission to Macedonia
  Two 1st Year BA Theology students, Maura Garrihy and Michael Curtin, have been selected to travel with Professor Salvador Ryan on a charity mission to Macedonia and Kosovo during Reading Week (12-19 March) 2010.
  
  
• December 2009: Carol Service
  Over 2,000 students and seminarians, faculty and staff as well as visitors to the College enjoyed three nights of Carol Services
  
  Programme for Carol Service 2009
  
  
  
  
• December 2009: College Christmas Card
  Featuring the Presentation Window from the LadyChapel
  
  We wish all our friends and supporters around the world a happy Christmas, and many blessings in 2010.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• 5 December 2009
  Fun Run in aid of Saint Vincent de Paul. Meet at the John Paul II Library at 1.00 p.m.
  
  
• 80th Milestone for Tom Corcoran
  
  Priests, Seminarians, faculty and staff came together to honour Tom Corcoran's birthday.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• 27th & 28th November 2009
  Open Days
  *Friday 27 Nov 09: 9:30am-3.00pm:
  Theology Talk: John Hume Building
  Tutorial Room 9 at 1pm
  *Saturday 28 Nov 09 10.30am-4.00pm:
  Theology Talk: John Hume Building
  Tutorial Room 9 at 12.30pm
  Open Days are held in conjunction with NUIM
  
  
• 28th November 2009
  Conference for Artists and Architects
  The National Centre for Liturgy in association with the Advisory Committee on Sacred Art and Architecture is holding a conference for architects and artists, and people who are interested and involved in our places of worship.
  Saturday, 28 November 2009 at 11.00 a.m.
  Renehan Hall, Maynooth College.
  
  
• 16th November 2009: Mission to Macedonia
  Opportunity for two students from Saint Patrick’s College, Maynooth, to travel to Macedonia and Kosovo with Professor Salvador Ryan during Saint Patrick’s week (12-19 March) 2010.
  Closing date for applications: Monday 16 November 2009.
  
  
  
• 14th November 2009
  Mass for Deceased Benefactors of Maynooth College.
  Ceremony starts with prayers in College Cemetary at 9.30 a.m.
  
  
  
• 7th November 2009
  Graduation Day 2009
  
  The Pontifical University at Saint Patrick's College Maynooth awarded degrees and diplomas.
  
  
  
  

• 6 - 7 November 2009
  Report on Interface Conference
  Being a young Theologian in the World
  Organised by the students and alumni of the Pontifical University at Saint Patrick's College, Maynooth, the conference was aimed at young theologians, and had two objectives:
  1.to explore the role of the young theologian
  2.to explore the role of theology in contemporary society
  
  
• 4th November 2009
  'Stem Cells: Playing God or Responding to Human Suffering'
  Seminar for Staff and Postgraduate Students.
  
  
• Carol Service 2009
  
  Lottery for tickets
  
  Programme for Carol Service 2009
  
  
  
• November 2009
  Portrait of O'Sullivan Beare returned to Maynooth College
  having been on loan to the National Library of Ireland
  
  
• October 2009
  Recent Retirements:
  Mary Heneghan & Margaret Tyrrell
  Mona Byrne
  
  
• 28th September - 9th October 2009
  Photographic Exhibition commemorating the visit of Pope John Paul II to Maynooth on 1 October 1979.
  
  
• Summer of 2009:
  Digitisation of the Accounts Book of Alcalá
  One of the most significant of the Salamanca Archives has been digitised, and is available on line.
  
  
• Summer of 2009:
  Irish Manuscripts from the Russell Library on line
  
  
• 2009 Classpiece and Ordinations to Priesthood
  
  
• 6 - 10 July 2009
  Irish Church Music
  40th Annual Summer School
  
  
• 9th June 2009
  Maynooth Union 2009 Report
  
  
• 9 June 2009
  Maynooth Union with special recognition for:
  the Diamond Jubilee Class (1949)
  the Golden Jubilee Class (1959)
  and the Silver Jubilee Class (1984)
  
  
• 6th June 2009
  2009 Alumni Ball a spectacular success
  
  
• 6th June 2009
  Maynooth Alumni Ball 2009
  
  
• 31 May 2009 - Feast of Pentecost
  Ordination to Diaconate
  
  
• 30 May 2009
  Maurice Dunne's Month's Mind
  Mass at 9.30 a.m. in Saint Mary's Oratory
  
  
• 6 May 2009
  A one-day Symposium entitled
  ‘Hints of Glory’ - Transcendence and the Arts:
  Encountering the Beyond in Postmodernity
  hosted by the Irish Centre for Faith and Culture
  in St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth
  
  
• 3 May 2009 - Vocation Sunday
  The Seminary at Saint Patrick's College is delighted to announce for the first time,
  an Open Day Invitation
  to all men discerning a Vocation to the Catholic Priesthood.
  
  
• 29 April 2009
  Death of Maurice Dunne RIP
  
  
• 20 April 2009
  Launch of The Splendid Cause by Neil Collins
  A History of the Missionary Society of Saint Columban
  
  
• 29 March 2009
  Choral Concert, College Chapel
  
  
• 26 March 2009
  Annual Trocaire Lecture
  
  
• 25 March 2009
  Annual Cardinal Newman Lecture at Maynooth
  
  
• 17 March 2009
  Happy Saint Patrick's Day, our National and College patron
  Hear Professor Salvador Ryan speak on the real Saint Patrick
  
  
• 1st & 8th March 2009
  Radio Masses broadcast from the National Centre for Liturgy
  
  
• 4th March 2009
  Professor Brian V Johnstone, Catholic University of America
  Staff-postgraduate Seminar
  4.30 – 6.00 p.m.
  Dunboyne Hall
  Professor Johnstone will examine the theme of Gift in moral theology, which is the subject of his forthcoming book.
  
  
• 25th February 2009
  Sudden death of Rev Myles Rearden CM, RIP
  
  
• 24th February 2009
  The Michael Devlin Lecture 2009
  The Battle for Paul in the Second Century - Professor Judith Lieu
  
  
• 8th, 15th & 22nd February 2009
  Seminarians Masses on RTE1
  
  
• 9th - 13th February 2009
  Distinguished Theologian, Rev Gerald O'Collins visits Maynooth
  
  
• 10th February 2009
  Gaelic Irish treatments of Christ the Lover in their medieval devotional context - Professor Salvador Ryan
  
  
• 3-8 February 2009
  European Meeting of the English-Speaking Rectors in Maynooth.