(formerly known as Presentation Sisters College). Bandon Grammar School and St. Brogan's College are both mixed schools, Hamilton High School is a boys only school, and Coláiste na Toirbhirte is a girls only school. People People from or associated with Bandon include : Graham Norton, BBC chat show host, lived in Bandon and attended Bandon Grammar School. His mother still resides there. Nicholas Brady, a poet known for the Tate and Brady collaboration on a new version of the Psalms, was born in Bandon in 1659. George Bennett was born in Bandon in 1822. His 'History of Bandon' was published in 1869, and he founded the town of Bandon, Oregon in 1873. Henry Gosnold, Chief Justice of Munster and friend of Francis Bacon, spent much of his life in Bandon, of which he became a burgess in 1612. Attiwell Wood (c.1728-1784), a barrister and member of the Irish House of Commons, came from an old Bandon family. Margaret Wolfe Hungerford, an author who wrote several Victorian era novels, lived in Bandon until her death of in 1897. Eugene O'Keefe (1827–1913), a brewer and businessman, emigrated to Toronto and established the O'Keefe Brewery Cornelius O'Sullivan, a brewer's chemist, was born in Bandon in 1842 and in 1866 appointed assistant brewer and chemist to Bass & Co. Sir George Strickland Kingston, who emigrated to Australia and became a civil engineer, architect and politician, was born in Bandon in 1807. Sir Richard Cox, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, was born in Bandon, 25 March 1650 Joseph Brennan (1887–1963), Chairman of the Currency Commission and Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland Rev. James Long, an Anglican priest and orientalist who published the first English translation of the Bengali play Nil Darpan Lloyd Jones (socialist), Cooperative Society activist, four times President of the Co-operative Congress, was born in Bandon in 1811 Robert Baldwin Sullivan, second mayor of Toronto (1834–1839). Brian Crowley, Fianna Fáil MEP for the South (European Parliament constituency). Graham Dwyer, grew up in Bandon. He was convicted in 2015 of the murder of Dublin social worker Elaine O'Hara. Conor Hourihane, footballer and midfielder at Aston Villa F.C. See also Bandonbridge (Parliament of Ireland constituency) Bandon (UK Parliament constituency) Kilbrogan House List of towns and villages in Ireland References External links Irish Historic Towns Atlas Online: Bandon by Patrick O'Flanagan for the Royal Irish Academy Bandon.ie Towns and villages in County Cork Populated places