Andrew Fitzgerald O.P. (1814–1843) James Ignatius Taylor (1843–1850) James Walshe (1850–1856) became Bishop in Kildare and Leighlin. John Dunne (1856–1864) appointed Parish Priest of Kildare. James B. Kavanagh (1864–1880) Edward Burke (1880–1892) Patrick Foley (1892–1896) became Bishop in Kildare and Leighlin John Foley (1896–1937), brother of Bishop Foley, was a professor at Carlow from 1886. Thomas Browne (1937–1941), became parish priest in Portlaoise. James J. Conway V.G. (1941–1948), was vice-president (1937–1941) Martin Brenan (1948–1956) Patrick Lennon, (1956–1966) he became Bishop in Kildare and Leighlin. Robert Prendergast (1966–1970) P.J. Brophy (1970–1974) Laurence Ryan (1974–1980), he later became Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin Matthew Kelly (1980–1986) John McDonald (1986–1994) Caoimhín(Kevin) Ó Néill (1994–2015) Conn Ó Maoldhomhnaigh (2015–present), previously Vice-President Present In the 1990s the College ceased to be a seminary and reclaimed its primary role as a college of the Humanities for lay people. In 1996 the college began an NCEA Certificate and Diploma course in Social Care. Prior to the foundation of HETAC a number of its courses were validated by its forerunner the National Council for Educational Awards (NCEA). Also about this time the college joined the Central Applications Office CAO for Irish school leavers applying for third-level education. On the 2011 CAO Carlow degrees in Citizenship and Community Studies, Humanities (Philosophy and Theology), English and History and Applied Social Studies in Social Care were offered. The Humanities degrees are recognised for teaching in secondary schools. Other postgraduate programmes include Higher Diploma in Business Studies in Parish Planning and Administration, Postgraduate Diploma in Equality and Diversity in the Workplace and Master of Arts in Therapeutic Child Care and qualify for tax relief. In the 2006–07 academic year, the college opened a magnificently designed state-of-the-art library situated in the old college chapel. The library was named in memory of Fr Patrick Brophy, a former president, who bequeathed his full library to the college. The new facility incorporated the Delany Archive containing the archives of the Brigidine Sisters, the Patrician Brothers as well as the college and diocese. It effectively charts 200 years of education in the local area. The P.J. Brophy memorial library stocks thousands of texts of the Humanities, in Philosophy, Theology, English Literature, Social Studies and the general Liberal Arts. The opening of the new library coincides with the opening of a new student services centre which is adjacent to the library. On 12 December 2006, the President of