It was rumoured that this was part of the £100,000 that had been robbed by republican forces from the Customs House in Dublin and that the priest had abused the nuns' trust by hiding the stolen money in the convent on behalf of Mary MacSwiney. The incident led to Fr. MacSwiney being removed from his clerical duties in Cork and sent to Dunmanway. In the summer of 1923 the Great War veteran Fr. Joe Scannell replaced Patrick Sexton as President of Farranferris (Sexton would later become a parish priest at St. Patrick's and was instrumental in building St Patrick's School, Cork). In his first year as president, Joe Scannell introduced an entrance exam for Farranferris, the newspaper notice advertising the new regime stated that pupils were being prepared for "the professions (the Church, Medicine, Law, Engineering, Primary and Secondary Training, etc.), Government Appointments, Commercial and Industrial Purposes". Mid-to-late 20th century The Golden Jubilee (fiftieth anniversary) of Farranferris college was celebrated in 1937. At the time it had 120 students. In February 1938, Fr. Denny Murphy was made President of Farranferris. In December 1945 T. F. Duggan, a former British Army Chaplain who had been a POW in WW1 and had won a medal for gallantry in WW2, was made President of Farranferris. In June 1954, Fr. Daniel Luke Connolly was made President of Farranferris. In 1960, St Finbarr's College, Farranferris was expanded (to the designs of James Boyd Barrett) to provide extra schoolroom accommodation and it began to take non-seminary boarders. In September 1962, Fr. Carthach McCarthy was made President of Farranferris. In 1969, Fr. Michael Murphy (later Bishop of Cork and Ross) was made President of Farranferris. In 1976, Fr. John Buckley (later Bishop of Cork and Ross) was made President of Farranferris. In July 1983, Fr. Micheál O Dálaigh was made President of Farranferris. The centenary of the Farranferris was celebrated in 1987. When uniforms were introduced Farranferris adopted a wine-coloured jumper with grey shirt and trousers. Final decades Fr. Noel O'Sullivan was President of Farranferris in 1996. Farranferris closed to boarding pupils at the end of the 1999–2000 academic year. Fr. Aidan O'Driscoll was President of Farranferris when it closed in 2006. Sports The school was successful at hurling, having won the Dr. Harty Cup and Dr. Croke Cup on several occasions. Literature Walsh, Fr. J. C.: Farranferris: The Heritage of St Finbarr 1887-1987. Tower Books, Cork