Mount Temple Comprehensive School

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Mount Temple Comprehensive School
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Address
Mount Temple Comprehensive School
Malahide Road

Clontarf
,
Dublin
,
Dublin 3

Ireland
Coordinates 53°22′09″N6°13′21″W / 53.3691°N 6.2225°W / 53.3691; -6.2225
Information
School type Non-fee paying co-educational comprehensive voluntary secondary school
MottoesAll Different, All Equal, [1]
Nisi Dominus Frustra,
(Without the Lord, it is in vain)
Established1972
PrincipalLiam Wegimont
Teaching staff>50
Number of studentsc. 900
Student to teacher ratio25:1 approx.
Houses2
Colour(s)  Black
  Blue
Information01 8336984
Website mounttemple.ie

Mount Temple Comprehensive School is a secondary school in Clontarf, Dublin, Ireland. The school operates under the patronage of the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin, and has, as a primary objective, the provision of state-funded second-level education to the Protestant population of northern Dublin, while accepting pupils of all religions and none. The school was established in 1972 following the amalgamation of Mountjoy School, Royal Hibernian Marine School in coastal Clontarf, and Bertrand & Rutland School. [2]

Contents

Students

Mount Temple Comprehensive School had about 450 students when it opened in 1972, which rose to over 700 students in the 1980-90s and from 2010 to 2020 had almost 900 students, and rising. [3]

Main Mount Temple building MountTempleYard.jpg
Main Mount Temple building

Facilities

The school operates from several buildings, the main house being a protected structure. [4] In addition to science laboratories and IT space, the school had for many years a substantial lending and reference library with two paid staff and a rota of parent volunteers, and while the collection had to be moved to make space for teaching, the library room hosted a talk by Bono in late 2022. [5] [6] External facilities include a number of on-premises pitches and courts. [7]

There have been plans for many years for a new school building to be added onsite to cater for the extra students, whose numbers are otherwise leading to pressure on space and loss of other facilities to additional classroom need; as of 2022, there is no spare classroom space, nor changing rooms for sport. [7] In 2017, the Department of Education and Skills commissioned a major architectural firm, Wejchert, to design a new main school building, and they assembled a full construction project team. [8] After Covid-related delays, in October 2020, in response to the last application, the city council planning inspector recommended planning permission be granted, despite some local objections, clearing the way to build a three-storey school building that could accommodate one thousand students. [9] This building, in excess of 10,000 sq. metres, will replace most of the non-protected school buildings. [8]

History

Three schools

Hibernian Marine School was a charity school founded in 1766, originally to provide for the orphans and children of seamen. [10] The school was originally located in Ringsend, and moved to a new premises on Sir John Rogerson's Quay in 1773. [11] In 1904 it moved to Seafield Road in Clontarf, where the Seacourt estate now stands. [12]

Mountjoy School was a boarding school in Mountjoy Square (in the same building was the Incorporated Society for Promoting Protestant Schools), founded in 1896. It later moved to the current location in Clontarf in 1948. [13]

Bertrand & Rutland School was in Eccles Street on the northside of Dublin. It was a Church of Ireland School, which was itself formed by a 1947 merger of Rutland School and Bertrand High school, the latter of which was in turn formed by the amalgamation of Bethesda Female Orphan School and Bertrand Female Orphan School in 1943. The Bertrand and Rutland Fund still funds scholarships to Protestant schools in Ireland. [14]

Amalgamations

Hibernian Marine School amalgamated with Mountjoy School in 1968 and became Mountjoy & Marine School. The school later amalgamated with Bertrand & Rutland and took the name of Mount Temple Comprehensive School in 1972. [15]

Illustration of the Hibernian Marine School on Sir John Rogerson's Quay in 1780 Image from page 109 of "Views of the most remarkable public buildings, monuments and other edifices in the city of Dublin" (1780).jpg
Illustration of the Hibernian Marine School on Sir John Rogerson's Quay in 1780

Site

Mount Temple was once a residence for the agent of the Earl of Charlemont. [16] The present house was built by the magistrate J. C. Stronge in 1860, and was a family home to Elizabeth Bowen. [16] [17] [18] For a period, the estate was owned by Thomas Picton-Bradshaw and known as Bradshaws. [18] [19] Mountjoy School then took possession in 1949 prior to the merger that formed Mount Temple Comprehensive. [16] [11]

Mount Temple was the school where the rock band U2 was formed. In September 1976, 14-year-old drummer Larry Mullen Jr. posted a notice on the school's noticeboard, looking for fellow musicians. All four members of U2 are former pupils of the school. [20]

Christopher Nolan's autobiographical novel Under the Eye of the Clock, which won the Whitbread Award, is based around his time in Mount Temple. [21] The school now awards "Eye of the Clock Awards" for contributions to school life and academic achievement. [22]

Summer activities onsite

During the summer months the whole school facility is used by the Centre of English Studies (CES), catering for hundreds of international students who come to Dublin to learn English.

Notable alumni

Notable faculty

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