CBC Celebrates a proud 125 year heritage

In a history extending back to 1888, CBC Cork yesterday celebrated one of its proudest days when Uachtarán na hÉireann, Michael D. Higgins, visited the school to commemorate its 125th celebrations.

Unveiling the specially commissioned limestone and bronze 125 Arch, positioned to frame St Fin Barre’s Cathedral, the site of Cork’s first place of Christian education, the President commemorated the iconic institution and its enduring position in the heart of the city.

The celebrations on the day took the form of a great gathering of the college community: including Bishop Buckley, pupils and teachers, representatives of the Edmund Rice Schools Trust, the Board of Management, parents councils and many members of the Past Pupils Union. Marking this milestone. Principal of CBC, Dr Laurence Jordan, likened the arch to a window looking back at the school and its past, while also looking out over the city and into the future. He paid tribute to the Christian Brothers who moulded the college over many decades into one of the most successful educational establishments in the country: “The Brothers left a great legacy behind which is being diligently protected and developed. Their careful attention to character formation, to respect for others and for nationhood, to concern for the less privileged both at home and abroad in the spirit of our founder Blessed Edmund Rice, to hard work and consequent high academic achievement in education — still lives on.”