Clongowes Wood College is a most celebrated Irish boys' preparatory school founded in 1814 by Rev. Peter Kenny, S.J. and still run by the Society of Jesus (The Jesuits) in County Kildare, west of Dublin (1 hour by car from the city centre).  In Joyce's time, it was considered the best Catholic school of Ireland.  Joyce entered Clongowes in September 1888 and studied there until June 1891; although Joyce had to leave here because of his father's financial problem, he was very proud of having studied here throughout his life.  Stephen Dedalus, the protagonist of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, also attended the school, so it is the major setting of the chapter one.  This seven-day boarding school now has about 450 students.

IMAGE	IMAGE NO.	DATA
Clongowes Wood College		Clongowes Wood College S.J. Sallins, County Kildare
	cwc2000-390	(Saturday 15 July) The old castle of Clongowes Wood College
	cwc2000-391	(Saturday 15 July) The Boys Chapel of Clongowes Wood College
	cwc2000-392	(Saturday 15 July) Statue of Ignatius Loyola, the entrance hall of the old castle.
	cwc2000-393	(Saturday 15 July) 1st floor of the old castle: a view towards the front gate.
	cwc2000-394	(Saturday 15 July) "Boys' Day for Jesus 1914"
	cwc2000-395	(Saturday 15 July) A library
	cwc2000-396	Saturday 15 July) [U] Portrait of Oliver St. John Gogarty, who stayed for just one year (c1895) in Clongowes: He is a model of Buck Mulligan of Ulysses.
	cwc2000-397	(Saturday 15 July) Stairs
	cwc2000-398	(Saturday 15 July) A lecture room Joyce learned
	cwc2000-399	(Saturday 15 July) A typical room in the dormitory
	cwc2000-400	(Saturday 15 July) Poems by J. M. Hopkins: He visited here in 1885.
	cwc2000-401	(Saturday 15 July) Another library
	cwc2000-402	(Saturday 15 July) A hall students used in Joyce's time
	cwc2000-403	(Saturday 15 July) A statue near the landing
	cwc2000-404	(Saturday 15 July) [P I. 55-59] The rector's room: " An old servant was sweeping at the end of the landing.  He asked him where was the rector's room and the old servant pointed to the door at the far end and looked after him as he went on to it and knocked...   He turned the handle and opened the door and fumbled for the handle of the green baize door iside.  He found it and pushed it open and went in...."
	cwc2000-405	(Saturday 15 July) [P 1.55-59] The rector's room.  No "skull on the desk" and no "strange solemn smell in the room like the old leather of chairs."
	cwc2000-406	(Saturday 15 July) The main castle: a scene from Third Line Cricket Ground
	cwc2000-407	(Saturday 15 July) The old castle: a scene from Third Line Cricket Ground