News & Events Archive:

Some highlights of 2010:

• 9 March 2010
  The Annual Aquinas Lecture at Maynooth
  Aquinas the Teacher is the subject of this year’s lecture organised by the Philosophy Department, and presented by Professor Denys Turner, Pitkin Professor of Historical Theology, Yale University.
  Tuesday 9th March - At  8.00 p.m.
  Theatre 1, John Hume Building
  CHAIR: Professor P Masterson
  
  
• 9 March 2010
  Trócaire Lecture at Maynooth College
  
  
• 8th March 2010
  Saving Sport, by Kevin O'Gorman SMA, launched by Archbishop Dermot Clifford
  
  The general loss of a sense of the sacred leads to the question of whether sport is now becoming a substitute for spirituality. Saving Sport explores key questions about the experience of sport, and its expression by the media, in the conversa­tion between church and society on faith and culture.
  
  Renehan Hall
  Monday, 8th March, 8.00 p.m.
  
  
  
• 5th March 2010
  Three catering staff to say good-bye
  You are invited to coffee at 11.00 a.m. on Friday 5th March in Pugin Hall to say farewell to Phil Tracy (Parlour staff), Barney Boyd (Stores Manager) and  Kathleen Bennet ("one of the evening ladies") who are retiring in the coming days.
  
  
• 3rd March 2010
  Lenten Evening Prayer
  St. Patrick’s College has a tradition of inviting a member of another Christian tradition to join us for Evening Prayer during Lent and to share some thoughts with us on a topic and piece of scripture of their own choosing. This year, Mr Philip McKinley of the Irish Inter-Church Committee will be our guest speaker. His theme will be the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.
  All are welcome. 7.00 p.m. in Saint Mary's Oratory
  
  
• 3 March 2010
  The Annual Cardinal Newman Lecture at Maynooth
  
  Topic: Newman’s idea of a university: then and now
  
  Speaker: Professor Áine Hyland
       Emeritus Professor of Education, UCC
  Response: Professor Tom Collins
       Vice-President for External Affairs
       Dean of Teaching and Learning, NUI Maynooth
  
  Wednesday 3 March at 7.30pm. in Renehan Hall                                                                                                              Icon by Br R Lentz ofm
• 26th and 27th February 2010
  Sigerson Cup hosted by Maynooth
  Students, faculty and staff of Saint Patrick's College wish the Maynooth team every succes. Maynooth will play DCU in the semi-final on Friday 26th February and the final will be held in Leixlip GAA-Club on Saturday, 27th February. The last time the cup was claimed by Maynooth was when Saint Patrick's College took the honours in 1976.
  
  
• 19 February 2010
  The Advent Project Ten Years On: Early Medieval Chant and Ritual in Rome
  To mark the tenth anniversary of the publication of James McKinnon’s The Advent Project, a one-day symposium on Early Medieval Roman Chant and Liturgy will be held on 19th February 2010.
  Keynote Speakers:
  * Prof Susan Rankin
  * Dr John F Romano
  * Prof Joseph Dyer
  Hosted by:
  * UCD School of Music
  * Liturgy Department, St Patrick’s College, Maynooth
  
  
• On Sunday 7th, 14th & 21st February 2010
  Celebration of the Eucharist at Maynooth College to be broadcast on RTE Radio 1
  
  
  
  
• 17th February 2010
  The John Paul II Theological Society
  
  The Dictatorship of Relativism
  
  A presentation by David Quinn
  - religious and social affairs commentator and head of the Iona Institute
  
  Wednesday 17th of February, 7.30pm in Renehan Hall
  
  
• 16 February 2010
  The Annual Michael Devlin Lecture at the Pontifical University
  

  A Blessed Rage for the Common Good
  - Dr Patrick Riordan SJ

  
  
  
  
  

• 16 February 2010
  Caritas in Veritate
  A conference on the Encyclical Letter of Pope Benedict XVI from the perspective of Theology, Economics and Development - Department of Moral Theology
  
  Report on the Conference

• 9 February 2010
  The President welcomes the Belgian Ambassador to Maynooth College
  
  His Excellency Ambassador Robert Devriese paid a courtesy visit to Maynooth College on 9th February 2010.
  
  
  
• 1 February 2010
  Saint Patrick's College welcomes students back to Campus for Semester Two.
  Click on your course for your timetable:
          -  Baccalaureate in Divinity, BD
          -  Baccalaureate in Theology, BTh
          -  Baccalaureate in Theology and Arts, BATh
          -  Post Graduate Programme
  
  
  
• January 2010
  Parish Visits to Maynooth College
  Parish Groups can experience the living heritage of Ireland's National Seminary.
  
  The residential package is designed for groups that would like to visit the National Seminary at Saint Patrick's College, Maynooth, and includes a guided tour, meals, accommodation and Mass in the College Chapel.
  
  
• 24 January 2010
  Stephen Deighan ordained Deacon
  
  We offer our congratulations to Stephen Deighan who was ordained Deacon by Archbishop Diarmuid Martin on Sunday, 24th January for the Archdiocese of Dublin.
  
  Stephen entered St Patrick's College, Maynooth in 2002.
  
  


• January 2010 in Maynooth
  The big thaw has followed the White New Year.
  The snows that blanketed the College have given way to the big thaw...
  
  
• January 2010
  Examination Schedule
  
  Click here to see the Provisional Examination Timetable:
  7 - 23 January 2010
  
  
• 1 January 2010
  
  
  Two College appointments have taken effect with the New Year