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Distinguished among the thousands of its past students was one the first ever Catholic bishops to be appointed in the United States, John England ; the man who single-handedly brought Catholicism to Australia, John Therry ; Ireland's first Cardinal, Paul Cullen ; the artist Frank O ' Meara ; the Young Irelander and land-reform theorist, James Fintan Lalor and the Fenian John O ' Leary, friend of W. B.

Yeats.

Daniel O ' Connell, also known as ' The Liberator ' or ' The Emancipator ' and Ireland's predominant political leader in the first half of the nineteenth century, reputedly gave an oration to the Carlow townspeople from the top of the college's front porch.

Descendants of O ' Connell have studied and taught the college.

Also educated in Carlow College were James Fintan Lalor's brothers Richard Lalor, Irish Nationalist, MP for Queens County and Sir Peter Lalor, M. P.

Speaker of the Victoria Parliament, Australia.