The Dominican Order (Order of Preachers) has been present in Ireland since 1224 when the first foundation was established in Dublin. This was quickly followed by Drogheda (also 1224), Kilkenny (1225), Waterford (1226), Limerick (1227) and Cork (1229). The order was reestablished in the 19th century after having been driven out in the 17th century by laws against religious orders.
Dominican convents, retreat houses, and houses of study
There are currently communities of Dominican friars in the following places in Ireland:
Convent and seminary in Cork city
Convent, house of study and retreat house in Tallaght
Community in Athy
Others
There are also communities of Dominican nuns in a number of places.
Secondary Schools in Ireland
Newbridge College, a private co-education day boarding school in Co Kildare, founded by the friars
Dominican College, Portstewart, a grammar school on north coast of Northern Ireland, run by Dominican sisters
Dominican College, Fortwilliam, a grammar school in Belfast, Northern Ireland, run by Dominican sisters
Dominican College, Galway City, Republic of Ireland, run by Dominican sisters
St Dominic's Grammar School for Girls, Falls Road, Belfast, Northern Ireland, run by Dominican sisters
Dominican College Sion Hill, Cross Avenue, Blackrock, Co. Dublin
Dominican College, Griffith Avenue All-girls secondary school formerly located at Eccles Street Dublin 7
St Rose's Dominican College, established by the Dominicans in 1962 in Beechmount Avenue, Belfast St. Dominic's College, Dublin , A secondary school convent for girls, The "base" for Dominican Schools in the World
Dominican Biblical Institute, a biblical research centre in Limerick, Ireland
The Priory Institute, Tallaght, Dublin, in what was the Dominican House of Studies until the year 2000
St. Saviour's Priory, Dorset St., Dublin now houses the Centre of Institutional Studies of the Irish Dominican friars
Dominican Convent High School, Harare, Zimbabwe, founded by an Irish Dominican nun
Saint Dominic's International School, near Lisbon, Portugal, founded by Irish Dominican sisters
Jofroi of Waterford, fl 1300?, scribe, translator
Edmund Bourke, (d. 1738), author
Anthony Dominic Fahy, 11 January 1805 - 20 February 1871), missionary in Argentina
Wilfrid Harrington, (b. 1927), theologian
Fr. Joseph Mullooly, (1812 - 1880), archaeologist
John Thomas Troy, (10 May 1739 - 11 May 1823), Archbishop of Dublin
Roche MacGeoghegan, 1580 - 26 May 1644), Bishop of Kildare
Thomas Burke, (1709 - 25 September 1776), Bishop of Ossory
Thomas Nicholas Burke, 8 September 1830 - 2 July 1882), preacher
James Joseph Carbery, 1 May 1823 - 17 December 1887), Bishop of Hamilton, Canada
Terence Albert O'Brien, (1600 - 31 Oct 1651), Bishop of Emly, martyr
Daniel O'Daly, (1595 - 30 June 1662), diplomat and historian
Henry Flanagan, (1918-92), teacher, musician, artist and sculptor
Aonghus Buckley, (1913-78). , artist
Fr. Brian McKevitt, publisher of Alive!, a conservative Catholic newspaper
