Belvedere College S J is a voluntary secondary school for boys in Dublin, Ireland.
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11 Facts About Belvedere College
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Belvedere College owes its origins to the efforts of John Austin who opened primary and secondary schools off Fishamble Street in 1750.
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Belvedere College was caught up in the events of the 1916 Rising, when the British military opened fire at the Jesuit residence.
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Belvedere College offers the Irish Junior Certificate and Leaving Certificate curricula.
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Belvedere College has a 25m 5 lane indoor swimming pool, gym, restaurant and refectory, music suite, learning resource centre, museum, chapel and oratory, 3 hard tennis courts, 1 astroturf and 5 grass rugby pitches, a cricket pitch, 1 grass soccer pitch, 1 astro 7-a-side football pitch on top of the O'Reilly Theatre and a 60m 8 lane roof-top running track .
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In 2004, Belvedere College opened the Dargan Moloney Science and Technology Block, which has state-of-the-art laboratories, lecture theatres and IT hubs.
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In October 2013 Belvedere College held the all-Ireland schools senior track and field trophy, having won the title in the previous seven years.
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Belvedere College has won 35 Leinster Senior Cricket Schools Cup titles, as of 2016.
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Belvedere College was successful in the last series of Blackboard Jungle, a popular television programme on RTE.
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Belvedere College is the backdrop for some of James Joyce's novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
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Alumni and teachers at Belvedere College played major roles in modern Irish literature, the standardisation of the Irish language, as well as the Irish independence movement – both the 1916 Rising and the Irish War of Independence .
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