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McKeown, Damien Woods, Paul McAvinchey, Seamus Savage and Frank Corvan.Br. Kelly retired in 1999 and took up a teaching post with an
American university. In 1999 the long boarding tradition in St Patrick's ended after the Vincentian Order left Armagh. In 2016, Fr. Kevin Donaghy announced his retirement as Headmaster of St. Patrick's after 17 years in the post. He is the last Catholic Priest Headmaster in Northern Ireland and the last priest on staff in St Patrick's. Fr. Donaghy oversaw many changes at St Patrick's including overseeing the last St Patrick's team to win the MacRory Cup in 1999/2000, the new music and technology block being added in 2003, the renovation work carried out in 2015-2017 and more recently the amalgamation with St Brigid's High School in 2015. Mr. Dominic Clarke of the Sacred Heart College in Omagh and past pupil was appointed the first lay Headmaster in the 180-year history of St Patrick's for the 2016/2017 academic year. Fr. Peter Clarke was appointed the first school chaplain in 17 years for the academic year of 2016/17.
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Catholic boys to attend St. Patrick's, which from September 2014 no longer used academic selection. St. Patrick's is now an all-ability school
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Extra-curricular groups in the music department include the school orchestra, steel band, traditional group, and choir, each of which has a day allocated for practice for one hour after school. The department takes part in the new 'Soundstart
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Patrick's Grammar School was established after St Patrick's College and Christian Brothers Greenpark amalgamated to form the new school. Br. L. Kelly, Headmaster of St. Mary's Grammar School Belfast, was appointed as the first Headmaster of the new school. He was ably assisted by James
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arrived in Armagh in 1851 at the invitation of
Archbishop Cullen, who was later to be Ireland's first Cardinal. Within a few years the Christian Brothers acquired the Greenpark site and primary and secondary schools were established. Christian Brothers' Grammar School, Greenpark, built up a strong
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In 1923 the headmaster of St Patricks and St Macartans Monaghan held a Gaelic match between the two schools and where later joined by St Patrick's Cavan, St Columb's Derry, St Malachy's Belfast, and St Colman's Newry. The Macrory Cup was originally open to boarding schools, but in 1954, Abbey CBS
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a language further. These students usually have eight classes per week, alongside two conversation classes with the school's language assistants. Students from St Catherine's College study French at St Patrick's. Every language at St. Patrick's has a fluent language assistant.
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of the new amalgamated school. The work in education started by Archbishop Crolly in 1838 was to continue on Sandy Hill. Cardinal O' Fiaich was succeeded as Chairman of the Board of Governors by Cardinal Daly in 1991, by Cardinal Brady in 1997 and by Mr. Frank Corvan.
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as well as permission for 4 mobile classrooms. The contract was awarded to GEDA construction and they began work on site in October 2015 with work finishing in June 2017. St Patrick's again received funding for additional renovation work in May 2018.
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For one class every week they learn an orchestral instrument from all sections of the orchestra, as well as African drums. They are taken by professional tutors, assuring that every pupil can leave year 9 able to play an instrument and read music.
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academic and sporting tradition. When the Vincentian Order signified their intention to withdraw from Armagh, the late Cardinal Tomas O' Fiaich requested the Irish Christian Brothers to become joint
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