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St Mary’s offers a strong curriculum affording students the opportunity to study at the highest levels across an array of subjects. The impressive facilities at St Mary’s are unrivalled in Galway city; the school is set on some 40 acres of beautifully maintained grounds, boasting Gaelic and soccer pitches, basketball and tennis courts, fitness suite, weights room, a nationally recognised cross-country course, indoor and outdoor handball courts, as well as two sports halls.

Over the past 100 years St Mary's College, in its steadfast delivery of a first rate educational experience to its student body, has perpetually kept pace with the needs of the times in which it served.

Our photograph today which shows the beginnings of the construction of St Mary’s College was taken in 1911.

St Mary’s College has been a boys secondary school for 100 years and the building itself is one of Galway city’s finest examples of Art Deco.

St Mary’s opened in 1912 with 60 boarders and 17 day boys. The first school sports there took place in 1928, and since then the college has produced many fine athletes in track and field. The first mention of All-Ireland sports in the annals of the school concerns Tom Fahy, who in 1938 set a new Irish record for the 12lb shot. In 1939 the school won its first Connacht Schools title; in 1943, it won three titles, four in 1946, and five in 1947. In that last year, one athlete, Martin Kilmartin, won three golds, and set records in both the triple jump and the long jump. In 1948 the college again won five titles, and in 1950 John Linnane set a new Irish record in the pole vault.

Our photograph today shows the St Mary’s College hurling team which won the competition played between their school, Garbally, and St Flannan’s in 1924. The diocesan magazine The Mantle published this image and provided an update on the players in 1959, so the notes after their names describe their status in 1959.

Maoin Cheoil na Gaillimhe, the St Mary’s College Music Resource Centre will host a concert in aid of the GOAL Pakistan Flood Appeal on Tuesday November 16 at 8pm.