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Entrants 1933 |
Text by Fr Tom Kilbride from the College History section of the College website
This group of ten in classic birettas and becas are those who arrived in 1933. All of these students would complete their studies elsewhere, as the College was forced to evacuate students in 1937 as the Spanish Civil War intensified. They include a young James Monaghan (standing, back left) who would go on to be auxiliary bishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh (in fact, he would be forced to leave the College in 1936 due to ill-health, but completed his studies in Ireland and was ordained priest in 1940). In addition, and in a more tragic vein, the young student sitting on the front, far right, Duncan Kennedy, would be drowned while swimming in the River Duero only a few months after this picture was taken, in May 1934. We still pray for Duncan when we visit the College grave at Boecillo, a grave which was purchased specifically for his burial in 1934, but which, tragically, has had to be used twice since. RIP. The students are ( l to r): Standing: James Monaghan (St An&Ed), Alexander MacKellaig (Arg&I), James Dooley (Glas), Denis McCarthy (Gall), Joseph Cahill (Glas), Edward Long (Glas); Seated: Peter Foylan (Dunk), John Flood (Dunk), John Ross (Dunk), Duncan Kennedy (Arg&I).