There is a wonderful photo in the Castle of the physicists working at Cambridge University’s Cavendish Laboratory in August 1920.  Taking his position amongst historical greats such as Prof. Chadwick and Ernest Rutherford is Fr C. Power S.J.  

The script underneath describes the former as being famous for his discovery of the neutron while Rutherford discovered the alpha particle and was famous for his experiments on the same; while In true Jesuit understatement the same script says that Cyril Power “taught maths in C.W.C and managed the farm.”

In this podcast Eoin O’Reilly OC’74 (who devised the discussion) shares memories of ‘Sickle’ with MIchael Sheil SJ IC 56 and Harman Murtagh OC’62, along with CWC Archivist, John Bird.

*photograph courtesy The Clongownian

Eoin O’Reilly with Cyril Power outside the Castle

Adam Lewis a native and is currently principal of Boston College High School.

After time as principal of Loyola School in Manhattan, NY. And b4 a director of Senior Campus at Xavier College in Melbourne, Australia, a Jesuit school serving 1000 boys

He was also Deputy Principal of Saint Ignatius College Riverview in Sydney, Australia, was d a Jesuit school for 1500 boys.

His connection to. With CWC as a teacher and a rugy coach

He left CWC in 2008, after 8 years reaching history and Head Coach of rugby.

Peter O’Meara left Clongowes in 1988.

A native of Mallow where he lives with his wife Hilary and four children, Peter was President of The Clongowes Union for the year 2023/2024.

He is a Director of Savills Ireland, based in their Cork office, with whom he has worked for over 30 years.

Our guest is one of the early Alberto Hurtado Bursary graduates, who entered the Jesuit noviciate in Innsbruck this September. 

Shadowing the life of Fr Cyril Power S.J. (OC 1907) Seán studied Theoretical Physics in Cambridge after leaving Clongowes.  While at Cambridge he gained his full blue in Rugby, playing in two Varsity matches, one time on losing and the following year on the winning side

He left CWC in 2016

Adam MacNulty is President and Client Portfolio Manager, Brandes Investment Partners (Europe) based in Dublin

Previously he was with with Pioneer investments , Davys and Aviva Investors

A graduate of the Michael Smurfit Business School with an MBS in Financial Services following his BA Ecomomics from UCD

He left Clongowes in 1988

Blair is CFO of Vanguard Europe, which manages over $400bn in assets across the UK, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland and France; as well as having a growing presence in Ireland. Blair has held a variety of senior finance and business strategy roles.

He has worked across different geographies, business sectors and in businesses at varied stages of maturity. The common thread is that he has focused on businesses requiring turnaround or those in rapid growth.

A CFA charterholder, chartered accountant and qualified tax adviser. He started his career with PwC in Dublin and studied in Dublin City University (DCU). Blair is originally from Co. Meath.

Blair left CWC in 2000.

Born in Galway in 1961, David Soden grew up in “Tullamore, Ring and Clongowes” and went

on to obtain a BCL at University College, Dublin. Having trained as a solicitor in Waterford, he returned to Dublin in 1989 and has been self-employed since the mid-1990s.

He’s one of a numbers of brothers who attended Clongowes and one. Of sets of brothers to appear on Portraits.

Married with no children, David’s interests include photography, music, the Camino de Santiago, wine bargains and a spot of duty in the garden

He left CWC in 1979.

John Daly was born in Dublin on the day JFK was shot, as good an alibi as you'll get.

Attended Clongowes Wood College (OC 1982 [his brother Conor OC 1985]), Dublin City University, University of Oxford (Keble College) and the Institute of Art & Law.

John has worked as a lecturer in a number of third level institutions including the National College of Art & Design and at the Open University; he also spent many years as an academic editor.

The visual arts have always played a significant part in his life, and John has been collecting artworks since age 16. He turned his hobby into his full-time profession when he founded the contemporary art gallery Hillsboro Fine Art in 1995. John has just written a monograph on German artist Karl Weschke (1925-2005) which will appear in June 2025.

He is an enthusiastic tennis and table tennis player and consumes far too much wine.

John is married to Yandan Sun and their son Daniel (age 10) is already considering CWC for his second level education believing it to be a branch of Hogwarts.

Tanner O’Connell grew up in County Meath before attending Clongowes.

He studied Commerce in UCD and completed a Masters in Accounting in Smurfit Business School.

After his studies he qualified as a Chartered Accountant in KPMG's Deal Advisory Department

Tanner joined Elkstone (a leading Irish Investment House) in 2018 and, working with Alan Merriman, has held Investment Director, Chief of Staff and Business Development roles.

He left CWC in 2008

Ross Finegan started out his career in 1994 at Deloitte Corporate Finance where he advised management teams on MBO’s

In 1996 he moved to JP Morgan Partners, the private equity arm of JP Morgan. In the mid naughtiest he cofounder of Lonsdale Capital Partners and is based l in London

He trained as a chartered accountant in PWC after completing a BComm in UCD

Ross Finegan left CWC in 1987