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St Eunan’s College was founded in 1906 by Bishop Patrick O’Donnell
(1888 – 1922) as minor seminary and Catholic boarding school for boys.
Diocesan colleges became a feature of most Irish diocese following the
passing of the Catholic Relief Act of 1792. Diocesan colleges were
established to give the best possible Catholic education to boys of every
class. Parents who were not blessed with great means could take
advantage of college burses and scholarships and ensure that their sons
were educated along the best possible lines. Students who expressed an
interest in priesthood had their embryonic vocation nurtured during their
second level schooling and then progressed from the minor seminary to
the National Seminary in Maynooth or other seminaries. St Eunan’s
College provided the second level education for the great majority of
priests of the diocese and missionary priests from its foundation through
to the present day.
The introduction of free education in the late 1960s and the expansion of
the V.E.C. schools in the last thirty years presaged the end of the boarding
era in 1992.
St Eunan’s College continues as a Catholic School under the trusteeship
of the Bishop of Raphoe. The college has continually evolved and
changed to meet the demographic, social and cultural challenges both
locally and nationally. The college welcomes and respects the increasing
multi-racial, multi-denominational nature of the community while
adhering to the specifically Catholic spirit of the founders in 1906.
The college, situated in Letterkenny, has been influenced by the rapid
pace of change in education, technology and society. As the college
acknowledges and manages these changes, it is aware of the demands
and pressures on young people. The college aims to equip its students
with an education that will allow them to take their place in the Ireland
of the twenty first century.
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