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Tue 12 Dec 2009'A celebration of difference united behind a humbling credo'
Blackrock College has just launched a new book to celebrate its 150th anniversary. There is a public fascination with the south Co Dublin school, but Blackrock shrugs off criticism, quietly thriving on its own unshakable sense of self, writes LOUISE HOLDEN
IT WAS Easter 1916. A group of young men were garrisoned in a Dublin fortress as fire reddened the night sky and smoke shrouded the capital. They weren’t the occupants of the GPO, but a group of Blackrock College students quarantined in school by a bout of scarlet fever. Excited by the political events unfolding around them that night, they decided to establish their own republic of Blackrock.
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