Belvedere College
Belvedere College S.J. (sometimes St Francis Xavier's College) is a
voluntary secondary school for boys in
Dublin, Ireland. The school has numerous notable alumni in the arts, politics, sports, science, and business. Alumni and teachers at Belvedere played major roles in modern Irish literature (James Joyce, Austin Clarke, the foundation of Ireland's National Theatre), the standardisation of the Irish language (de Bhaldraithe), as well as the Irish independence movement – both the 1916 Rising (Joseph Mary Plunkett, Éamon de Valera) and the Irish War of Independence (Éamon de Valera, Cathal Brugha, Kevin Barry). The school's notable alumni and former faculty include two
Taoisigh (Irish Prime Minister), one
Ceann Comhairle (Speaker of the Lower House of the Irish Parliament), several
cabinet ministers, one
Blessed, one
Cardinal, one
Archbishop, one signatory of the
Proclamation of the Irish Republic, two
Supreme Court Justices, one
Olympic medallist, thirty
Irish international rugby players and numerous notable figures in the world of the arts, academia and business. Belvedere College forms the setting for part of
James Joyce's semi-autobiographical novel ''
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
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