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96:, demanded vacant possession of the property, and on Wednesday, 1 June 1859, the sheriff, his bailiffs and a force of police attempted to take vacant possession of the school. Due to the endeavours of the local people, they did not succeed until 16 June. The brothers were then recalled to Dublin, and on the following night the premises was broken into, set alight, and burned to the ground. 166:
St Pat's was also well known for its basketball, with achievements like winning the All Ireland Colleges Basketball Championship in 1974 and reaching the final in 1989. The Tuam side also won the All-Ireland Under-19 Championship in the first year of the competition in 1980 and also won the title the
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The school continued to operate here until 1980, when a new school and gymnasium were built on a site behind the old monastery. This school continued to be run by the Christian Brothers until 1990, when, due to a lack of vocations, the Brothers left Tuam. The school then came under the patronage of
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The departure of the Brothers in 1859 created a grave problem for the town of Tuam. The people found themselves deprived of an education for their children, St Jarlath's being exclusively for boarders at that time. So, on 31 July 1859, Archbishop MacHale, who had first invited the Brothers to Tuam,
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On this site the new school was built, and opened in November 1861 with two brothers. The building housed both the primary and secondary schools for many years, as well as the Brothers' monastery. A separate primary school was built in the 1940s, allowing more space for the secondary school.
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St. Patrick's began life as Tuam Christian Brothers School (Tuam C.B.S.) in 1851, in a rented building at Prospect, off the old Ballygaddy Road. The building was owned by the
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among others. In the end the soccer players walked out champions beating the Galway side with a scoreline of 3-11 to 3-13 in the match refereed by Jimmy Moran, father of
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Their second Senior Provincial Championship came in 1989. Having overcome St Jarlath's in the semi-final, CBS defeated four in a row Connacht Championship chasers
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with an attendance of about 5000. This fundraiser was a game consisting of thirty minutes of soccer and thirty minutes of Gaelic football played between the
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Since St Patrick's and St Jarlath's have amalgamated, the New St Jarlath's College have won two Connacht Senior Championships in 2011 and 2012, and made a
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called a meeting in the sacristy, at which it was decided to build a new school, for which the Archbishop donated a site on the Dublin Road.
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holders St Jarlath's in the final. St Patrick's won the game with a score of 0-14 to 1-7 on 12 March 1995 in Tuam Stadium.
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football team of the time, which would later reach the All-Ireland final that year but lose to
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Their third and final victory came when St. Patrick's defeated Connacht Championship and
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On 29 May 1974, a unique fundraiser was held in aid of the Tuam CBS Building Fund in
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final on 16 March 1980. The victorious team won with a scoreline of 1-4 to 0-5 in
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in tough weather conditions on 19 March. The final scoreline read 0-6 to 0-4.
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The History of the Christian Brothers' Schools in Tuam
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St. Patrick's College, Tuam
Irish
Christian Brothers School
Roman Catholic
secondary school
Tuam
County Galway
Ireland
St Patrick
St Jarlath's College
Protestant Archbishop of Tuam
Thomas Plunket
St Jarlath's College
Connacht Colleges Senior Football Championship
Tuam Stadium
St Mary's College, Galway
Hogan Cup
Hogan Cup
St Colman's College, Newry
Tuam Stadium
Galway
Dublin
Eamonn Dunphy
Johnny Giles
Paddy Mulligan
Eoin Hand
Gerry Daly
The Saw Doctors
Leo Moran
Category:People educated at St Patrick's College, Tuam

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