Intermediate School, Killorglin - Centenary Year 2009

Centenary Year Celebration 2009

Tickets are on sale now for the Centenary Banquet, Sat April 10th 2010. Only 400 available so get a table together quick and contact 066 9761246 to book your tickets. It will be an amazing night, not to be repeated for 100 years so don't miss out, book now! Click here to download application form

The countdown to Centenary Year commenced on Monday May 21st. The O'Reilly Centenary Library was opened officially by the Minister for Arts, Sports and Tourism, Mr. John O'Donoghue and blessed by Cannon Michael Fleming. There was a great sense of occasion on opening night. In the presence of over two hundred people, young and old with music, song, dance and speeches a major event in the History of the School was commemorated. It encapsulated in a way the feelings and emotions of people when the old School or Carnegie building was opened in 1909 - it mirrored the first important milestone in the journey of the I.S.K.

The library is architecturally making a strong statement about the future of the I.S.K. and how forward looking the school sees itself. Words are inadequate to express our gratitude to Mr. Jerry O'Reilly. It is most fitting that Jerry has commemorated his parents in this way and at the same time he is giving something invaluable to the young of Killorglin and the whole of the Mid Kerry Area. For me it fulfils a lifetime's dream, originally the school was housed in a library and this was the story until 1989 when the New School was built at Laharn Crossing. Now because of Jerry's generosity the school houses a library, hopefully this library will be the foster home of many of the brains of Killorglin/ Mid Kerry where ideas will germinate and come to fruition.

For Centenary Year 2009 I am hoping to reach out to many past pupils as possible be they in Ireland or anywhere else in the world and to create a bibliophile with everybody's e-mail address. The title of this will be 'Undique' and will contain as much information as our past-pupils wish to give but at least the e-mail address. Compiling this information is a task for Centenary Year and hopefully will give to the library a record or database of the citizens past and present of the school. The school must have a thousand old boys and dare I say old girls (Alumni/Alumnae) of whom we have no information.

Once 'Undique' has been established it will be easier to update it from time to time. To register, click here.

We would like this to be an extensive database and that perhaps if you are in contact with fellow past pupils you would encourage them to send in the necessary information. Down the line this web site may become a focus for the exchange of news and information, of photographs and points of view. It could be a way of encouraging initiatives whereby we can share wisdom, talents and some resources that God, good fortune, I.S.K., hard work and life experience have put in our way.

You will be glad to hear that the I.S.K is thriving, a school population in excess of 650 pupils and fifty teachers. Academic standards are at an all time high and we are expecting to maintain these standards in this year's State Exams. The Cultural and Social Life is all important to us and pupils have a full life giving every child scope for developing its talents. The School Campus is one of the finest in Munster, boasting of an all-weather pitch on which even the Kerry Team did it's Winter Training for the last few years under the aegis of Jack O'Connor. The Space Room is another great feature of the school where one can be alone and take time out. This room is a commemoration of Bairbre who had always longed for such a space. Plans for the future include the modernising of the Hockey Pitch, to extend the Staff Room, to build Counselling Rooms, a Music Room, a Language Laboratory and a number of basic classrooms. Thus you can see the school is not static, it has plans, they may take time to achieve but one must forever hope - omnibus sperandum est.