Former names

All Hallows Missionary College

Euntes Docete Omnes Gentes

Go and teach all nations (Matthew 28:19)

1842–2016

Dermot McCarthy [1]

Patrick McDevitt, C.M., Ph.D.

700

Suburban

NCEA (1988-1999))
DCU (1999-2016)

Exchange programmes[edit]

The college engaged in the Erasmus student exchange programmes with Liverpool Hope University as well as the universities of Trier and Erfurt in Germany. All Hallows ran study abroad programmes with American universities such as DePaul University[25] in Chicago and St. John's University (New York)[26] both also founded by Vincentians. The college also engaged in programmes with Webster University, St. Louis; the University of Missouri and Regis University, Denver.

Facilities[edit]

The college had a dining room, student common room, computer room, the John Hand library and study facilities. Students could use the facilities in Dublin City University and its sister colleges. Students had access to online learning via moodle. An archive of the college was hosted on campus. The college had on-campus accommodation for visiting students and groups. The Purcell House building hosted seminars, conferences, and workshops.


A number of non-profit organisations and charities such as Volunteer Missionary Movement, Daughters of Charity[27] Education and Training Service,[28] Ruhama[29] (Supporting women affected by prostitution and human trafficking), Accord Catholic Marriage Counselling, Debt and Development Coalition Ireland, Console (Living with Suicide), Migraine Association of Ireland, National Association for Pastoral Counselling and Psychotherapy, Marys Meals, and Older Women's Network (OWN) Ireland were based on campus.


On campus there is a monument to Fr. Hand and a graveyard where he and a number of other former presidents, professors and students of the college are buried. Deceased former students and staff are commemorated by trees planted on the college grounds.


The College Chapel was often used for concerts by choirs and musical societies, such as Liam Lawton, Dolce Choir,[30] The Offbeat Ensemble, and the Dublin Airport Singers.


On 22 December 2003, the college hosted a special Christmas edition of RTÉs Marian Finucane Show with choirs for the northside of Dublin, and featured Brian Kennedy, Suzanne Murphy, Anúna, Bernadette Greevey and the Three American Tenors.


The BBC Songs of Praise show on 20 March 2016, featured a recording of Enya singing in the college chapel.[31]

Rev. (1842–1846)

John Hand

Rev. DD (1846–1854)

David Moriarty

Dr. DD (1854–1861)

Bartholomew Woodlock

Rev. DD, OCC (1861–1866)

Thomas A. Bennett

Dr. William Fortune (1866–1891)

Rev. James Moore (1892–1909)

Rev. Thomas O'Donnell CM (1909–1948)

Rev. William Purcell CM (1948–1961)

[33]

Rev. CM (1961–1970)

Thomas Fagan

Mgr. Tom Lane CM (1970–1982)

Rev. Kevin Rafferty CM (1982–1995)

Rev. Mark Noonan CM (1996–2011)

Dr. Patrick McDevitt CM PhD (2011–2016)

[12]

Drumcondra House - original Georgian house which the college was built around.

Purcell House - Conference Centre and Oratory. Originally known as Junior House[36] designed by architect J.J. O'Callaghan in 1884.

[35]

opened in 1958

O'Donnell House

Woodlock Hall - Now the location of the Jesuit library from the

Milltown Institute of Theology and Philosophy

John Hand Library

Senior House

College Chapel

Temple Folly (1720)[38][39]

[37]

The college's main buildings were the historic Drumcondra House designed by Sir Edward Lovett Pearce for Marmaduke Coghill, Purcell House, O'Donnell house, and Senior house. The architect J. J. McCarthy extended the house and designed a college quadrangle, however, only two sides were built. The college chapel was designed by George Ashlin in 1876, replacing an earlier chapel by McCarthy, the south side of the chapel is dominated by Evie Hone's stained glass window.[34]

BA in Adult Learning for Personal and Professional Development (ALBA) was transferred to DCU

MA in Personal Leadership and Pastoral Care is now being run by the

National College of Ireland

MA in Spirituality is being run from 2016 in the validated by WIT[45]

Spirituality Institute for Research and Education (SpIRE)

MSc in Non Profit Management is being run in the

National College of Ireland

Pathways programme, transferred to in 2015, and from 2021 the Mater Dei Centre for Catholic Education (MDCCE), in DCU St. Patrick's, Campus.[46]

Clonliffe College

Sabbatical Renewal Programme run by the Presentation Sisters in Portarlington

All Hallows Trust[edit]

Following the winding down of the college, the All Hallows Trust was set up to maintain the legacy and heritage of the college, and continue with a number of activities. Continued activities by the trust were enshrined in the agreement to sell the college to DCU. The Trust maintains an office on campus. The All Hallows trust supports a number of academic activities such as the publication of books and papers on the college and Vincentian tradition, it also manages the All Hallows Trust PhD scholarships.[51] It also supports the All Hallows Association and the All Hallows Alumni Network(AHAN) for events such as the annual Jubilee Mass,[52] and the annual advent mass (continuing on from the college carol service). The Trust also supported the meeting of alumni in the Passionist Retreat Centre near Sacramento, California, in May 2022. Other events the trust support include book launches and talks.[53]

Kimmage Mission Institute

Milltown Institute of Theology and Philosophy

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