Kildare Place National School
| Kildare Place National School | |
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| Location | |
| 96 Upper Rathmines Road, Dublin Ireland |
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| Information | |
| Established | 1819 |
| Principal | Ian Packham |
| Number of students | 116 |
| Website | kildareplace.ie |
Kildare Place National School (KPNS) is a Church of Ireland primary school in Rathmines, a suburb of Dublin, Ireland [2]. The school is linked to the training college of the Church of Ireland College of Education.[1] Formerly located on Kildare Street in Dublin's City Centre, the school moved to Upper Rathmines Road in 1969.
Foundation
The Kildare Place Society was founded in 1811 by a group of philanthropists in Dublin, Ireland. Its proper name was The Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor people in Ireland, but it became popularly known as the Kildare Place Society from the location of its office and schools in the city. The Society was non-denominational and its aim was to provide support for schools, and to publish suitable textbooks, primarily to educate poorer Irish children.[2]
The main purpose was: "... to promote the establishment of Schools throughout the country, conducted on such a system of economy, and containing such facilities for learning, that ignorance shall no longer be the necessary companion to poverty ; but that every individual in the community, however poor, might be enabled to obtain instruction in reading, writing, and arithmetic, if willing to devote a small portion of his time and attention for that purpose : and lastly, that the leading principle which guides them in all their movements, is an anxious desire to diffuse the blessings of Education throughout the country, without suffering its progress to be impeded by those sectarian distinctions which have so frequently opposed an insurmountable barrier to the amelioration of the peasantry of Ireland."
Notably, the schools were an early attempt to educate pupils from all of Ireland's religious groups together. From the 1830s the government introduced a state-sponsored system of National Schools, to eliminate the informal hedge schools, and the Society's schools reduced in number. The National Schools became denominational and the KPS schools affiliated thereafter to the Church of Ireland.
Notable alumni
- Jonathan Sexton – Leinster and Ireland rugby player
- Kevin McLaughlin – Leinster and Ireland rugby player
- David McMillan – League of Ireland footballer with University College Dublin A.F.C. (UCD)
- Evan McMillan – League of Ireland footballer with Sligo Rovers FC
References
External links
- Official Website
- 2009 Report (Department of Education and Science)
