The Clongownian

The first Editors of The Clongownian understood the importance of the job they were undertaking. The very first page of the first Volume gives some background: ‘The announcement that Clongowes is henceforth to publish a periodical record of its doings in a School Magazine of its own can scarcely come as a surprise to its friends. To them, indeed, the wonder has always been why something of the sort was not done long since. School journalism has become so common that it seemed not a little strange how Clongowes, with its past history and present performance, could have been content to remain so long without a chronicle. ‘

The Kildare Observer, December 14th, 1895, carried news of the new Magazine:

Along with the notice in The Kildare Observer, the Magazine carried a subscription insert: