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Born: 23 August 1921, Dromhall, Killarney, County Kerry
Entered: 12 November 1940, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 25 April 1941

Father, Jeremiah, was a Customs and Excise Officer. Mother was Catherine (O’Connell) who died in 1937. Family moved to Farnmore, Bellvue Park, Cork City.

Seventh of eight boys with two sisters (1 deceased)

Early education was in St Patrick’s National School Cork, at age 11 he went to the Model School in Cork and then North Monastery.

Baptised at St Mary’s Cathedral, New Street, Killarney, County Kerry, 25/08/1921
Confirmed at St Finbarr's South Church, Dunbar Street, Cork City, by Dr Cohalan of Cork, 21/05/1934

Born: 22 May 1897,
Entered: 30 September 1926, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly
Ordained: pre entry

Left Society of Jesus: 09 November 1926

Born: 26 February 1913, Claremorris, County Mayo
Entered: 14 February 1932, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 30 June 1933

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - De La Salle Waterford student; left No Vocation

Born: 21 November 1869, County Tipperary
Entered: 08 May 1895, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: July 1895

Born: 16 August 1863-, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 02 December 1889, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1890

Born: 23 June 1893, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 31 August 1920, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: September 1920

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Brother Novice. Crescent Servant before entry.

Born: 28 November 1923, Knockeen, Pallasgreen, County Limerick
Entered: 05 October 1942, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 14 September 1943

Parents, John and Catherine (Corboy) were farmers.

Younger of two boys with four sisters.

Early education was for nine years at Caherconlish NS, he then went to CBS Limerick for five years.

Baptised at Church of the Holy Rosary, Main Street, Murroe, County Limerick, 01/12/1923

Born:
Entered: 13 May 1610, San Andrea, Rome, Italy - Romanae Province (ROM

Left Society of Jesus: 1612

◆ In Chronological Catalogue Sheet as Ent 13/05/1610

◆ Old/15 (1) has LEFT?? in pencil on one copy

◆ Old/17 has “Sacrobosco” Ent 13/05/1610 St Andrea

◆ Calendar of MacErlean Transcipts Addenda Irishmen who entered Rome and Spain 1561-1772 (Finegan)
Nicholas Holywood (Sacrobosco) 18
13 May 1610 Entered St Andrea Rome

Born: 03 September 1922, St Joseph’s, Ormond Road, Rathmines, Dublin City
Entered: 07 September 1940, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 07 April 1942

Father, Matthew, was a commercial traveller for Helys of Dame Street. Mother was Agnes (McLynn)

Only boy with three sisters (one a nun).

Early education at a Convent school in Dublin he then went to Synge Street.

Baptised at St Joseph's Catholic Church, Berkeley Road, Phibsborough, Dublin, 08/09/1922
Confirmed at St Kevin’s Church, Harrington Street, Dublin, by Dr Wall of Dublin, 27/02/1934

Born: 02 January 1843, Australia
Entered: 14 August 1880, St Aloysius College, Sevenhill, South Australia, Australia - Austriaco-Hungaricae Province (ASR-HUN)
Ordained: pre Entry

Left Society of Jesus: 1881

Priest Novice

Entered early Irish Mission to to Australia 1880 in ASR-HUN Province Novitiate

Born: 21 July 1882, Tramore, County Waterford
Entered: 07 September 1899, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: March 1900

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Clongowes student. Ward in Chancery, compelled to leave Novitiate after 6 months. He studied in Dublin for a while and then became lieutenant in the army and served in the Boer War campaign 1900-1902

Born: 08 October 1897, Connaught Terrace, Rathgar, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 31 August 1916, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 22 November 1918

Parents lived by private means and lives at Whitechurch House, Rathfarnham.

Second eldest of of three sons.

After two years of private tuition he went to St Mary’s College, Rathmines CSSp

1916-1918: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly, Novitiate
1918-1919: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly, Rhetoric

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Went to Juniorate without Vows

Born: 05 June 1905, Australia
Entered: 12 February 1923, Loyola Greenwich, Australia (HIB)

Left Society of Jesus: 02 November 1924

Born: 16 August 1920, Woodbrook, Emo, County Laois
Entered: 21 August 1939, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 22 August 1939

Brother Novice

Parents Michael, a farm worker and Mary (Morris),

4 Brothers, 1 Sister

Educated to Class 7.

Baptised at St Paul's Church, Emo, County Laois, 22/08/1920
Confirmed at St Paul's Church, Emo, County Laois, by Dr Cullen of Kildare and Leighlin, 14/03/1932

Born: 17 May 1900-, Australia
Entered: 25 March 1930, Loyola Greenwich, Australia (HIB)

Left Society of Jesus: 1932

Transcribed HIB to ASL 05 April 1931

Born: 31 July 1898, Demerara, Guyana, South America
Entered: 23 June 1915, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1916

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - JEFFRAYE. LEFT No Vocation

Born: 28 January 1880, County Cork
Entered: 07 September 1897, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 20 December 1897 for health reasons

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Clongowes student; Dismissed due to ill health (knees)

Born: 06 February 1911, Australia
Entered: 26 February 1929, Loyola Greenwich, Australia (HIB)

Left Society of Jesus: 12 February 1931

Born: 10 March 1885, Leinster Road, Rathmines, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 07 September 1901, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1902

Father was a first class clek in the Registry of Deeds died January 1900. Mother, who has private means, then lived at Edenvale Road Ranelagh.

Five brothers and four sisters (one died before he was born).

Educated at a convent school, then St Mary’s CSSp, Rathmines. Then Belvedere College SJ for one year.

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Entered as Scholastic. Went to French Province. Returned after 6 months trial and was admitted as brother. Was a Cook. LEFT - recommended to leave by Superiors.

Born: 01 May 1862, Tuam, County Galway
Entered: 07 September 1897, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly
Ordained: pre entry

Left Society of Jesus: 1898

Born: 21 December 1827, County Sligo
Entered: 07 September 1876, Milltown Park, Dublin
Ordained: pre entry

Left Society of Jesus: 1877

Education at Ballaghdereen and St Patrick’s College Maynooth

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - LEFT after a few months Novitiate

Born: 14 August 1912, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 01 September 1930, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 02 May 1931

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Brother Novice; Carpenter before Entry

Born: 21 February 1884, Woodford, County Galway
Entered: 07 September 1901, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1901

Brother of William M Keary (ANG) - RIP 1958

Father a grocery and hardware shopkeeper. Mother died 10 days after his birth (1884, age 37), two brothers and a sister died before her, and another sister shortly afterwards. Father died in 1890 when he was six. Three living brothers, a doctor, family businessman and a Jesuit. There areb seven sisters, two of whom are nuns (a Dominican and a Good Shepherd.

Youngest of fifteen children, of whom 11 are living.

Educated at Woodford NS and then Coláiste Iognáid SJ

Born: 23 August 1923, Casimir Road, Harold’s Cross, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 07 September 1942, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 01 April 1943

Father, Gerald, was a shopkeeper and family lived at Aughrim, County Galway. Mother was Annie (Sweeney).

Younger of two boys with two sisters.

Early education was for two years at a National School in Aughrim and then at St Joseph’s, Garbally College Ballinasloe.

Baptised at Church of Mary Immaculate Refuge of Sinners, Rathmines Road, Dublin, 26/08/1923
Confirmed at St Catherine’s Church, Aughrim, County Galway, by Dr Dignam of Clonfert, 15/05/1934

Born: Ireland
Entered: 1740, Toulouse, France - Tolosanae Province (TOLO)

Left Society of Jesus: 1741

◆ Francis Finegan SJ Biographical Dictionary 1598-1773
DOB ??; Ent 1740 Toulouse; LEFT 1741 Toulouse

He may be identical with Geoffrey Keating (Salamanca 1751) . Later curate of Bruff and successively parish priest of Dromin and Croom

Born: 05 November 1914, Novara, Blacklion, Greystones, County Wicklow
Entered: 07 September 1932, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 08 August 1934

Father was a commissioned officer in the British Navy and died in 1922. Mother is supported by private means.

Second of three boys.

Early education began at a Convent school in the Isle of Wight, England. He then went to CUS Dublin, St Flannan’s in Ennis and then Belvederer College SJ.

Born: 15 December 1902, County Kildare
Entered: 01 March 1921, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 20 July 1923

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Servant at Clongowes before Entry

Born: 26 August 1867,
Entered: 14 October 1885, Loyola House, Dromore, County Down

Left Society of Jesus: 1886

Born: 11 November 1850, Australia
Entered: 12 August 1890, Loyola Greenwich, Sydney NSW, Australia (HIB)

Left Society of Jesus: 1891

Born: 10 January 1842, County Offaly
Entered: 07 September 1870, Milltown Park, Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 07 March 1872 for health reasons

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Brother Novice. Went home 25 May 1871 in consequence of ill health

Born: 27 March 1862, Birr, County Offaly
Entered: 13 January 1894, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1895

Educated at Castleknock College and Mount Mellary then St Sulpice and All Hallows

Born: 19 September 1916, Bornane, Templemore, County Tipperary
Entered: 07 September 1935, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 21 October 1935

Parents were farmers.

Eldest of five boys.

Educated at Bornane NS for seven years he then went to the Christian Brothers school in Thurles for three years. In 1932 hew went to the Apostolic School at Mungret College SJ

Born: 04 February 1912, Botanic Road, Glasnevin, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 03 October 1931, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 04 April 1932

Father owned a bakery business.

Youngest of four boys and three girls.

Early education at a Convent and National School in Glasnevin and then at Belvedere College SJ

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Belvedere student; LEFT Noviceship 04 April 1932 for speaking course on account of stammer

Born: 09 August 1900, Australia
Entered: 10 March 1920, Loyola Greenwich, Sydney NSW, Australia (HIB)

Left Society of Jesus: 1921

Born: 18 November 1909, Dolphin’s Barn, Dublin
Entered: 01 September 1924, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: January 1925

Educated at Mungret College SJ

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Mungret Apostolic School student; Set out for Madurai Mission (MDU) in January 1925, but LEFT en route

Born: 08 January 1879, Shankill, County Armagh
Entered: 11 October 1912, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: February 1913

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - LEFT beacuse of ill health

Born: 30 June 1913, Boley, Shillelagh, County Wicklow
Entered: 31 December 1932, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois (HIB for ORE)

Left Society of Jesus: 06 March 1933

Father was a teacher. Family moved to live at Church Street, Bagenalstown, County Carlow.

Third of eight boys with six sisters.

Early education at a National School in Shillelagh he went to Mungret College SJ for four years.

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - For Oregon Province; LEFT 06 March 1933. No vocation

Born: 07 July 1859, Kilbaha, Newtownsands, County Kerry
Entered: 10 September 1879, Milltown Park, Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 1880

Educated at Newtownsands NS, and Classical School Tralee and Mount Mellary

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - KENNELY

Born: 28 September 1881, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 07 October 1900, St Joseph’s College, Beiruit, Syria - Lugdunensis Province (LUGD)
Ordained:

Left Society of Jesus: 1902

Educated Mungret College SJ 1892

Born: 12 July 1848, Elphin Diocese
Entered: 30 August 1870, Milltown Park, Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 1872

Born: 06 November 1918, Renville, Oranmore, County Galway
Entered: 07 September 1938, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly
Died: 11 August 1994, County Galway

Left Society of Jesus: 27 August 1939

Parents, James and Delia (Bridget Cunningham) were Grocers.. Family lived at Sea Road, Galway City, County Galway

Third of four brothers with one sister.

Early education was at a Convent school then at St Joseph’s National school in Galway and then at Coláiste Iognáid. He then went to do office work for his father, but went back to school at Coláiste Iognáid in 1935..

Baptised at Church Of The Immaculate Conception, Oranmore, County Galway, 10/11/1918
Confirmed at St Joseph’s Church, Rahoon, Galway, by Dr O’Doherty of Galway, 21/05/1928

Born: 22 March 1911, Clongowes Wood, County Kildare
Entered: 02 September 1929, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 19 January 1930

Educated at Mungret College SJ

Born: 23 May 1924, Sea Road, Galway City, County Galway
Entered: 06 September 1941, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 09 April 1943

Younger brother of John James Keogh - LEFT 1949, and Andrew Keogh - LEFT 1939

Parents, James and Delia (Bridget Cunningham) were Grocers.. Family lived at Sea Road, Galway City, County Galway

Youngest of four boys with one sister.

Early education was at a National school in Galway and then at Coláiste Iognáid.

Baptised at St Joseph’s Church, Rahoon, Galway, , 25/05/1924
Confirmed at St Joseph’s Church, Rahoon, Galway, by Dr O’Doherty of Galway, 14/05/1934

Born: 10 December 1903, Australia
Entered: 20 May 1924, Loyola Greenwich, Australia (HIB)

Left Society of Jesus: 02 December 1924

Born: 14 August 1920, Mile Mill, Kilcullen, County Kildare
Entered: 22 November 1944, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: Fenruary 1945

Brother Novice

Parents were Joseph, a labourer, and Kate (Kealty).

5 Brothers and 3 Sisters

Educated locally to 5th Class. Always did work in Houses and Guest Houses until entry

Born: 17 March 1844, County Fermanagh
Entered: 21 March 1866, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1867

Only reference to this man is in ◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948. No idea of when he left, but as he is not in Catalogue, it must have been soon after entry.

There is also a Charles Kerin from Tuam who entered 1869 as a priest and LEFT 1877

Born: 07 January 1915, Kimmage Road, Kimmage, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 05 October 1933, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 31 January 1935

Father was a business man

Only child

early education was at two convent school and then at Belvedere College SJ for eight years.

Born: 17 July 1857, Australia
Entered: 20 February 1888, Xavier Melbourne Australia (HIB)

Left Society of Jesus: 1889

Born: 17 August 1881, Kilkenny City, County Kilkenny
Entered: 07 September 1900, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: October 1900

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Clongowes student; LEFT during Long Retreat Oct 1900

Born: 09 February 1938, Barrack Street, Bantry, County Cork
Entered: 07 `September 1957, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Ordained: 07 June 1964, St Mary’s Cathedral, James’ Street, Kilkenny, County Kilkenny, for Diocese of Jefferson City MO, USA
Died: 14 July 2010, Barnes Jewish Hospital, St Louis, MO, USA

Left Society of Jesus: 29 May 1958

Father was Raphael, a draper, and Mother was Brigid (O’Sullivan).

2 Brothers and 1 Sister

Educated at Mungret College SJ

Baptised at St Finbarr's Catholic Church, School Road, Bantry, County Cork, 09/02/1938
Confirmed at St Finbarr's Catholic Church, School Road, Bantry, County Cork, by Dr Cohalan of Cork, 07/05/1950

Attended St Kieran’s Kilkenny after leaving having been adopted by the Diocese of Jefferson City, and was ordained priest 07/06/1964

https://www.lakeexpo.com/obituaries/monsignor-raphael-p-keyes-february-9-1938---july-14-2010/article_54dfe70c-578d-56db-bfa3-aa1cc4021384.html

Monsignor Raphael P. Keyes (February 9, 1938 - July 14, 2010)

Raphael Patrick Keyes was born on February 9, 1938 in Bantry, County Cork, Ireland, the son of the late Raphael Patrick Keyes and Bridget (O’Sullivan) Keyes. Father Keyes was baptized at St. Finnbarr Church on February 9, 1938 and confirmed by Bishop Daniel Cohalan of Cork, Ireland on May 7, 1958. He is survived by his brother, Markus and sister, Cait. His brother Michael preceded him in death.

Father Keyes received his primary education at St. Finnbarr’s Primary School 1942-1951; later at Mungret College, Limerick 1951-1957 and finally at St. Kieran’s College 1958-1964. For a short period of time, Father Keyes was a novice of the Irish Province of the Society of Jesus until he joined the Diocese of Jefferson City as a seminarian in 1958. He received Subdiaconate and Diaconate in Ireland in 1963.

He was ordained to the Holy Priesthood of Jesus Christ on June 7, 1964 for the Diocese of Jefferson City by the Most Reverend Peter Birch, Bishop of Ossory, in the Cathedral of St. Mary, Kilkenny, Ireland. Bishop Joseph M. Marling, CPPS of Jefferson City, welcomed him to the United States and assigned him as an assistant at St. Francis Xavier, Taos in July 1964; and then on March 16, 1966 to the first cathedral of the Diocese, St. Peter’s in Jefferson City.

With continued missionary spirit, in 1967 Father Keyes responded to Bishop Marling’s call for priests to serve in the newly-formed missions in Peru. Amid the challenges of political tension and upheaval during the 1960’s and 1970’s in his new mission field, Father Keyes served with distinction at Marcona and Nasca for 35 years. He was a Coordinator of the Mission Team for 20 years, and for many years served as an advisor to the Peruvian Bishops Conference.

On May 28, 1989, Father Keyes celebrated his Silver Jubilee of Ordination at the Cathedral of St. Joseph in Jefferson City with Bishop Michael F. McAuliffe and his fellow jubilarian classmates.

When Father Keyes returned to priestly service within the Diocese of Jefferson City, on July 1, 2002 Bishop John R. Gaydos appointed him administrator of St. Anthony Church in Camdenton. On November 1, 2002, he was appointed pastor of the Parish of St. Anthony in Camdenton and the Mission of Our Lady of Snows in Climax Springs. Then, on July 1, 2009, he was appointed pastor of St. Bernadette Church in Hermitage, in addition to his other pastoral responsibilities. He served these parishes until his death.

Father Keyes was an appointed member of the Presbyteral Council from June 1, 2002 until his death. During his time on the Presbyteral Council, he held the offices of Secretary, Vice Chair, and then Chair from 2007 to 2010. He was appointed a Diocesan Consultor from 2003 to 2008. At the time of his death, he was a member of the Diocese of Jefferson City Mission Committee from April 2003 and a member of the Priests’ Mutual Benefit Society Board from June 2005. Our Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI named him a Prelate of Honor on June 28, 2006.

Internment will take place at a later date in Bantry, Ireland.

https://notices.irishtimes.com/death/keyes-monsignor-raphael-rapheal/5807238

KEYES Monsignor Raphael, Rapheal: Death

KEYES Monsignor Raphael Newtown, Bantry and Camdenton (Diocese of Jefferson City), MO. USA. - July 14, 2010 (peacefully) in the care of the staff of Barnes Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, MO. Brother of the late Michael, sadly missed by his loving sister Cait and brother Marcus, sisters-in-law Patsy and Glenda, nephew Ralph, his wife Eileen, grandnephew Michael, grandniece Rachel, his many friends and colleagues in Peru, his friends and coworkers in the Diocese of Jefferson City, relatives and his large circle of friends. May he rest in peace. Removal tomorrow (Wednesday) at 8pm from Coakley's Funeral Home, Chapel Street to St. Finabarr's Church, Bantry. Requiem Mass on Thursday at 12 noon, funeral afterwards to the Abbey Cemetery, Bantry. Family flowers only, donation in lieu, if desired, to Bantry Hospice Project, Newtown, Bantry.

Born: 20 November 1878, Belgrave Square, Rathmines, Dublin
Entered: 07 September 1895, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 29 April 1897 for health reasons

Educated at Christian Brothers School Synge Street and Clongowes Wood College SJ

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Brother of Alexander Kickham who died in the Novitiate 1892. DISMISSED 29 April 1897, No vocation and bad health

Born: 15 August 1919, Dromore, County Tyrone
Entered: 05 April 1937, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Died: 09 February 2007, St Vincent’s Hospital, Dublin (Dublin, County Dublin)

Left Society of Jesus: 18 April 1938

Father was a bank-porter and the family moved to St Patrick’s Terrace, Omagh, County Tyrone

Youngest of three boys with three sisters.

Education was at the Christian Brothers schools in Omagh (primary and secondary)

https://www.dib.ie/biography/kiely-benedict-ben-a9533

DICTIONARY OF IRISH BIOGRAPHY

Kiely, Benedict ('Ben')

Kiely, Benedict ('Ben') (1919–2007), writer, critic and journalist, was born Thomas Joseph Benedict Kiely near Dromore, Co. Tyrone, on 15 August 1919, the sixth and youngest child of Thomas Kiely, a British army veteran and measurer for the Ordnance Survey (born in Moville, Co. Donegal, son of an RIC man from Co. Limerick), and his wife Sarah Anne (née Gormley), formerly a barmaid. Kiely had two brothers (one of whom died aged eight) and three sisters. When he was one year old the family moved to Omagh, Co. Tyrone, where his father became a hotel porter. Kiely received his primary and secondary education from the Christian Brothers at their Mount St Columba's school in the town; he always spoke of his teachers with respect, recalling with particular admiration a lay teacher, M. J. Curry (model for the central character in his novella Proxopera) and Brother Rice, a most unusually enlightened Christian Brother who introduced him to the work of James Joyce (qv). Kiely was a member of the local GAA club but was suspended for playing soccer with Omagh Corinthians.

Much of Kiely's literary oeuvre draws on his youth in Omagh, and throughout his life he imaginatively recreated the townscape with its surrounding Strule Valley, its social and political divisions, concealed or unconcealed scandals, second-hand reports and fantasies of the wider world, and juvenile sexual curiosity – both the sexuality and the lure of an exotic world being sharpened by Omagh's ongoing history as a garrison town. From 1932 (when he attended the Dublin eucharistic congress) Kiely regularly holidayed in Dublin, staying with a married sister; the mid-Ulster town and the southern city were to become the twin poles of his career and imagination. Other holidays, in the Rosses area of Co. Donegal, also contributed to his imaginative formation.

After completing his secondary education (with a first place in English and second in history), Kiely worked as a sorter in Omagh post office (1936–7) before deciding he had a religious vocation and entering the Jesuit novitiate in Emo Park, near Portarlington, Co. Laois, in the spring of 1937. After a year in the novitiate Kiely was diagnosed with a tubercular lesion of the spine; he spent eighteen months at Cappagh hospital, Finglas, Co. Dublin, and wore a back brace for five years. Kiely later claimed that his vocation dissipated within a week of his arrival in hospital, partly due to his move from an unworldly all-male environment to the presence of shapely female nurses. In hindsight, Kiely believed the short-lived burst of fervour that produced his religious vocation had been a misunderstood yearning for a wider life of culture and scholarship. He retained from the novitiate a sizeable collection of miscellaneous religious knowledge, a number of clerical friends whom he respected, and a lifelong habit of rising at 5 a.m. and getting in several hours' work before breakfast.

Dublin and journalism
On discharge from hospital late in 1939 Kiely returned to Omagh, where he persuaded his elder brother (a self-made businessman) to lend him the money for a BA course at UCD (commencing autumn 1940). While studying history, literature and Latin, Kiely was a part-time editorial assistant on the Standard, a catholic weekly, and wrote articles, stories and verse in journals published by the Capuchin priest Fr Senan Moynihan (1900–70) (notably the Capuchin Annual, Father Mathew Record, Bonaventura and Irish Bookman). During his student days Kiely also organised a protest against the niggardliness of the coverage of James Joyce's death by Irish newspapers.

After graduating in September 1943, Kiely began a research MA in history, but abandoned it after he was recruited by Peadar O'Curry (1907–85) to a full-time job on the Standard, where he took over a 'Life and letters' column previously written by Patrick Kavanagh (qv). Francis MacManus (qv) became a literary 'guide, counsellor and friend' (Eckley, 164), persuading him to cut down a rejected novel, 'The king's shilling', to a long short story (later published as 'Soldier, red soldier'). In 1945 Kiely joined the editorial staff of the Irish Independent. He later commented wryly on the difference between the romanticised image of journalism that he had acquired from his adolescent passion for the writings of the English catholic columnist G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) and his subsequent experience of sub-editors' queries and quotidian visits to provincial towns to cover 'human interest' stories; this experience, however, reinforced his fascination with the interplay of locality and personality. From his earliest journalism to his last years, much of his writing took the form of an itinerary. He also regularly reviewed books in Irish journals and on Radio Éireann.

On 5 July 1944 Kiely married Maureen O'Connell (d. 2004); they had three daughters and a son (born 1945–9). The marriage broke down in the early 1950s, partly because of the strain between family life and the nocturnal, pub-centred lifestyle of a journalist. From the late 1950s Kiely lived with Frances Daly, whom he married in 2005 after his first wife's death in Canada.

Kiely as critic
Kiely's first publications were non-fiction works. Counties of contention (1945) is a series of essays on partition whose central argument is that unionism is a defence of ascendancy sustained by appeals to protestant 'persecution mania', and that reconciliation and an end to partition are necessary to save the whole island from mediocrity. Poor scholar (1947) was a pioneering study of William Carleton (qv), whose experiences as a storyteller, who was both inspired by and at odds with Tyrone, in many respects paralleled Kiely's own. In his last years, Kiely was a patron and regular attendee at the Carleton Summer School in Clogher, Co. Tyrone.

A number of published essays on contemporary Irish writers (mainly in the Irish Bookman) were reworked into Modern Irish fiction: a survey (1950) published by the Standard's Golden Eagle Books imprint. Much of this material, with further reflections and reworking, was incorporated into the essay collection A raid into dark corners (1999), which also contains reassessments of nineteenth-century Irish writers from throughout Kiely's career. (These serve the dual function of identifying material on which Kiely himself can draw and justifying his departures from nineteenth-century idealism and decorum for conservative provincial readers who might still see Kickham (qv) or Canon Sheehan (qv) as models.) Kiely's literary criticism, in its attempt to chart a path for post-revival and post-partition Irish literature, is noteworthy for its implicit rejection of the cultural nationalist view (as expressed by Daniel Corkery (qv)) that most nineteenth- and twentieth-century Irish fiction was not really Irish, and the view (associated with Sean O'Faolain (qv) and Frank O'Connor (qv)) that post-revolutionary Irish society was too provincial and uncertain to allow for the development of the novel as a social art form. Kiely presents contemporary Irish literature as divided between an ethos of rebellion incarnated by Joyce and one of acceptance reflected in Corkery. His own literary work tries to bridge this gap, as he moved between the thriving and confidently pious Dublin catholic weeklies and reviews and the more cynical worlds of the dissident literary intelligentsia and of Dublin journalists brought into contact with aspects of Irish life unacknowledged by the idealised self-image of catholic Ireland.

Early fiction
Kiely's first three novels are 'state of the nation' exercises: group portraits of Ireland in wartime as a Plato's cave of stasis. Their narrative structure moves among groups of characters in cinematic style. The first two are set in a thinly disguised Omagh in the period 1938–40, and are characterised by a dyad of naïve young enthusiast and detached older intellectual which recurs in Kiely's work. Land without stars (1946) portrays a romantic triangle involving two brothers (a spoiled priest turned journalist and a romantic republican and ex-postal sorter, brought to destruction by association with a sociopathic IRA killer). In a harbour green (1949), set in 1938–9, is a more panoramic view of small-town Ulster catholic life owing something to Joyce's Dubliners; its depiction of a young woman's simultaneous sexual involvement with a naïve young farmer and a sybaritic older solicitor led to its being banned by the Irish censorship of publications board (while in Britain it was taken up by the Catholic Book Club). The ban encouraged Kiely's move (at the behest of M. J. MacManus (qv)) from the Irish Independent to the less clericalist Irish Press, where he became literary editor, editorial writer and film critic. Kiely's third novel, Call for a miracle (1950), a similar group portrait set in Dublin in 1942, escaped banning despite its portrayal of marital separation, prostitution and suicide, possibly because its dark ending could be interpreted as the wages of sin. Kiely later jocularly commented that he had disproved Aodh de Blacam's (qv) proud claim that no Ulster writer had been banned; this underplayed the anger visible in his 1966 anti-censorship essay, 'The whores on the half-doors', written in response to the censors' last stand against authors such as John McGahern (qv) and Edna O'Brien (b. 1930).

Kiely's next novels continued the earlier works' preoccupation with neurotic states of mind while experimenting with different narrative techniques and closer attention to single protagonists. Honey seems bitter (1952), a first-person narrative of neurotic obsession involving a murder, emotional voyeurism and sexual infidelity, was banned. The cards of the gambler (1953), regarded by some critics as Kiely's best novel, is a literary reworking of a traditional folk tale (a genre often favoured by nineteenth-century Irish writers): the gambler's receiving three wishes from an enigmatic God, and his attempts to evade Death take place in 1950s suburban Dublin. The novel is influenced by Chesterton's novel The man who was Thursday (1908) and by the 1929 play (and 1934 film) Death takes a holiday. After various ambivalent triumphs and traumas (including a narrow avoidance of hell described as another version of suburban Dublin, inhabited by pious haters so concerned with keeping up respectable appearances that they refuse to acknowledge the true nature of their surroundings), he departs for heaven via a celestial version of Dublin airport, then seen as symbolising a new Irish modernity.

Kiely's next novel, There was an ancient house (1955), was also banned. It describes a preliminary year in a religious novitiate seen principally through the eyes of McKenna, an idealistic young novice, and Barragry, a progressively disenchanted ex-journalist pursuing a late vocation, both of whom eventually leave. The portrayal of religious life is respectful but increasingly implies that idealism, religious or otherwise, takes too little account of everyday humanity and is finally inhuman. The book, like Kiely's other fiction with autobiographical elements, should be read as a fantasia inspired by real-life events rather than a simple transcript of Kiely's own experiences. (It is set in the mid 1950s, and involves a fictitious religious order based on the Redemptorists and the Marists as well as the Jesuits.) The ban may have been due to the strong hint that Barragry's spiritual crisis was caused by his girlfriend having an abortion. (After leaving the novitiate he resumes the relationship.) The captain with the whiskers (1960), much admired by Kiely critics, is a grim Gothic study of a tyrannical gentry patriarch's malign overshadowing of his children's lives even after his death, as told by a narrator who himself is corrupted by his fascination with the captain; it can be read as a comment on colonialism.

Broader horizons
The 1960s saw Kiely's professional blossoming as Ireland grew more prosperous and more open to outside influence. From the late 1950s the New Yorker began to publish his short stories, and Kiely established contact with American academics such as Kevin Sullivan, author of Joyce among the Jesuits (1958), whose search for his ancestral Kerry glen inspired Kiely's famous story 'A journey to the seven streams', and the novelist and critic of nineteenth-century Irish fiction Thomas Flanagan (1923–2002). Kiely moved away from professional journalism to become writer-in-residence at Hollins College (latterly University) in western Virginia (1964–5), visiting professor of creative writing at the University of Oregon in Portland (1965–6), and writer-in-residence at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia (1966–8). During this period in academia, Kiely contributed a fortnightly American letter to the Irish Times, commenting on American society with particular reference to the black civil rights movement and the wider upheavals of the 1960s; he also wrote numerous book reviews for the New York Times and essays and reviews for other periodicals (including the Nation of New York).

After returning to Ireland in 1968 Kiely spent the rest of his life as a full-time professional writer. (He was also an extern lecturer at UCD.) His later work is more exuberantly pagan and less haunted by faith. The 1968 novel Dogs enjoy the morning, an outspoken celebration of the sexual impulse and the bawdier aspects of Irish provincial life and folk culture which had been denounced or denied by censors such as William Magennis (qv), marks this new confidence and recognition in contrast to the social insecurity and aura of disreputability he experienced as a journalist-writer in the 1950s.

From the appearance of his first story collection, A journey to the seven streams (1963), Kiely's output was dominated by short stories, which became his most popular works and on which his literary reputation chiefly rests. In contrast to the 'well-made' short story encapsulating a life in a single emblematic incident, based on French and Russian models and favoured by many twentieth-century Irish authors, Kiely preferred an outwardly 'artless' approach, in which carefully structured digressions, multiple foci, garrulous narration, incorporation of familiar quotations and verse snatches, drawing on personal memories (generally recombined and reinvented, rather than straightforwardly reminiscent), and refusal to tie up apparently loose ends draw strongly on the oral storytelling tradition. (Surviving drafts in the NLI suggest Kiely composed many of these stories in his head for oral delivery, and that they underwent relatively little revision after being committed to paper.) Some critics complain that with age this operatic or performative style lapsed into self-indulgence, and Kiely's reliance on quotations and allusion grew to such an extent that his later works are virtual or actual anthologies. Kiely's later collections are A ball of malt and Madame Butterfly (1973), A cow in the house (1978), and A letter to Peachtree (1987). Several selections from these stories have also been published, and a Collected stories appeared in 2001 with an introduction by Colum McCann.

The image of Kiely as cosy storyteller was reinforced for a generation of Irish radio listeners by his melodious Northern voice reminiscing in six- or seven-minute radio essays on the Sunday morning RTÉ radio programme Sunday miscellany (from the early 1970s). The germ of these can be found in an Irish Press column about travels throughout Ireland (written with Sean White under the shared pseudonym Patrick Lagan). Kiely the raconteur is also in view in such works as All the way to Bantry Bay (1978), a collection of essays describing journeys in Ireland; Ireland from the air (1991), for which he provided text for a photobook; Yeats' Ireland: an illustrated anthology (1989); and And as I rode by Granard moat (1996), a selection of Irish poems and ballads with linking commentary on their local and personal associations. In 1982 Kiely received an honorary doctorate from the NUI. He served as council member and president of the Irish Academy of Letters, and in 1996 became a saoi of Aosdána. Admirers such as Colum McCann have complained that this late image of the 'grey Irish eminence' conceals Kiely's edge and significance from potential readers.

Troubles fiction
Kiely was profoundly affected by the Northern Ireland troubles from 1969; while denouncing unionist misrule and the extremism of Ian Paisley (qv) as having precipitated the conflict, he was horrified at the revelation of the violence latent in Northern Irish society, lamenting 'the real horrors have passed out the fictional ones', and commenting that the churches had contributed greatly to the divisions which made such things possible (Ir. Times, 29 January 1977). He praised Omagh as a solitary bright spot, marked by its people's efforts to maintain good cross-community relations. His last two lengthy works of fiction were the novella Proxopera (1977), whose cultured elderly protagonist is forced at gunpoint by IRA men to drive a proxy bomb into his native town, and the novel Nothing happens in Carmincross (1985), set in the early 1970s, in which the elderly Irish-American protagonist's joyful rediscovery of Ireland (in the company of an uninhibited old flame) on his way to a family wedding in an Ulster village ends with the death or mutilation of numerous villagers (including the bride) by bombs planted to divert the security forces from an IRA operation elsewhere. (This is based on the murder of Kathleen Dolan, killed by a loyalist car bomb in Killeter, Co. Down, on 14 December 1972 as she posted wedding invitations; Kiely abandoned a commission to write a coffee-table history of Ireland when the publishers refused to allow him to commence with this incident.) In contrast to his usual methods of composition, Kiely worked on Carmincross for twelve years; its narrative techniques experiment with postmodernism (the ageing lovers, pursued by the old flame's estranged husband, are ironically assimilated to Diarmuid and Gráinne (qv) pursued by Finn (qv)) and, beside Kiely's usual collage of literary and folkloric references, incorporate newspaper reports of real-life atrocities committed by republican and loyalist paramilitaries and state forces, and by regimes and guerrillas elsewhere in the world, whose fragmentary horrors mirror both the destructive power of the bomb and the breakdown of grand narratives of identity. These stories acquired additional significance after 15 August 1998 (Kiely's seventy-ninth birthday), when twenty-nine people were killed and over 220 injured in Omagh by a car bomb planted by the Real IRA splinter group.

Some critics hailed the Troubles stories as masterworks; other commentators (generally but not always holding republican views) argued that they were essentially outraged and myopic expressions of bourgeois complacency, and that their reduction of republicans' political motives to one-dimensional psychopathy was an artistic as well as a political flaw. (These criticisms are more applicable to Proxopera, where IRA members are portrayed directly.) A variant on this criticism argues that Kiely's view of culture as a naturally unifying force founded on human decency unfitted him to portray genuine disagreement as anything more complex than a destructive irruption of anti-culture (though his nuanced portrayal of the conflict between sacred and secular calls this into question). While these criticisms have substance, it can be argued that they run the risk of normalising the un-normalisable; a cry of pain and horror has its own integrity.

Kiely's last major works were two memoirs, Drink to the bird (1991), about his Omagh boyhood, and the more fragmentary and anecdotal The waves behind us (1999). He died in St Vincent's hospital, Dublin, on 9 February 2007 after a short illness and was buried with his family in Drumragh cemetery, Omagh. The principal collection of his papers is in the NLI, and additional material is in Emory University. Since 2001 he has been honoured by an annual Benedict Kiely Literary Weekend in Omagh. He awaits comprehensive reassessment; at his best he was a remarkable explorer of the pieties and darknesses of a mid-twentieth-century Ireland overshadowed in popular perception by the first and last thirds of the century.

Sources
Grace Eckley, Benedict Kiely (1972); Daniel J. Casey, Benedict Kiely (1974); John Wilson Foster, Forces and themes in Ulster fiction (1974); Ir. Times, 29 Jan. 1977; 13, 17 Feb. 2007; Benedict Kiely, Drink to the bird: a memoir (1991); id., The waves behind us: further memoirs (1999); Belfast Telegraph, 6 Aug. 1999; Elmer Kennedy-Andrews, Fiction and the Northern Ireland troubles since 1969: (de-) constructing the North (2003); Wordweaver: the legend of Benedict Kiely (dir. Roger Hudson, 2004; DVD with additional material, Stoney Road Films 2007); Sunday Independent, 11 Feb. 2007; Guardian, 12 Feb. 2007; Times, 19 Feb. 2007; Anne Fogarty and Derek Hand (ed.), Irish University Review, xxxviii, no. 1 (spring-summer 2008; special issue: Benedict Kiely); Derek Hand, A history of the Irish novel (2011); George O'Brien, The Irish novel 1960–2010 (2012); Benedict Kiely website, benedictkiely.info/index.html (accessed May 2013)

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Author Benedict Kiely dies aged 87

Novelist, short-story writer, critic, journalist, broadcaster and seanchaí Benedict Kiely, who was a dominant presence on the Irish scene for many decades, has died aged 87.

Novelist, short-story writer, critic, journalist, broadcaster and seanchaí Benedict Kiely, who was a dominant presence on the Irish scene for many decades, has died aged 87.

Born in Dromore, Co Tyrone, Benedict Kiely was brought up in Omagh.

He began working as a journalist in Dublin, where he spent close to 70 years of his life. The first of his many novels, Land Without Stars,was published in 1946 and he will also be fondly remembered for his work on RTÉ's Radio One's Sunday Miscellanyprogramme.

"Over six decades he has created a body of work which is impressed indelibly in contemporary literature," Mary Cloake, director of the Arts Council, said. "His exquisite prose explored and celebrated humanity in all its complexity and intrigue."

Interfuse No 156 : Summer 2014

AN ANCIENT HOUSE

Kevin Laheen

The Omagh-born writer Ben Kiely entered the Jesuit noviciate in 1937 but left before taking vows. Shortly after he left, he wrote a book called There was an ancient house. The ancient house referred to was St Mary's, Emo, which is still standing but is no longer occupied by Jesuits. However, the Jesuits also occupied another ancient house which has since been demolished: Loyola House, Dromore, Co. Down, which for a brief four years (1884-88) was occupied by Jesuit novices. In 1888 Fr Robert Fulton, the Province Visitor from USA, ordered the novices to be moved to Tullabeg, which would prove more suitable for their training. The Jesuits sold the house in Dromore shortly after the novices moved, but until 1917 they retained the 211 statute acres on which that house had stood, leaving it in the hands of a caretaker. In October 1938 I asked Fr T V Nolan why they retained the land but sold the house.

He told me there were two reasons. Firstly, though the Orange Order and the local Protestants were anxious to purchase both house and land, the money they offered was less than what the Jesuits had paid for it. In addition the stock from the farm were regular prize-winners at the annual Belfast Agricultural Show. Eventually when T.V., as Provincial, received a satisfactory offer, he sold the property, making a handsome profit on what they had originally paid for it.

In 1818 four novices arrived from Hodder to continue their training as novices in Tullabeg. They found the building already occupied by pupils of the Jesuit school which had just been opened; there was no room for novices. From that date Irish novices could be found in various novitiates both in Ireland, in Hodder and in other places on the continent. Eventually in 1860 they were located in Milltown Park. In time this location proved incapable of providing the correct atmosphere for the training of novices, so they were moved to Dromore, which was regarded as a more suitable location. So in April 1884 the novices arrived in Dromore and were located there until July 1888.

Towards the time when the novices were about to leave Dromore, T.V. Nolan arrived there. He told me that another novice called O'Leary arrived about the same time. In later years their lives became entwined in a number of ways, when T.V. became Provincial and O'Leary began recording earthquakes.

Although the Jesuits left Dromore, they will always be remembered there, because the names of two of them can be read on a gravestone beside the parish church in Dromore. They were Elias Seaver, who had just completed his training as a novice, and Fr John Hughes who had been bursar and who died some weeks before the Jesuits departed from Dromore in 1888.

I was happy to have had this chat with Fr Nolan in 1938, because he died some eight months later, and the history of this ancient house might well have gone to the grave with him.

Born: 19 July 1906, Tramore, County Waterford
Entered: 13 September 1924, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 14 January 1925

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Clongowes student

Born: 09 December 1923, Oriel Street, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 10 September 1942, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 17 April 1943

Father, Patrick, was a clerical worker in a shipping firm. Mother was Mary (Kinsella). Family lived at Seville Place, Dublin City, County Dublin

Youngest of four boys with three sisters.

Early education was at a National School and then at O’Connells Schools.

Baptised at St Laurence O`Toole's Church, Seville Place, Dublin, 12/12/1923
Confirmed at St. Vincent De Paul Catholic Church, Griffith Avenue, Marino, Dublin, by Dr Wall of Dublin, 22/03/1934

Born: 12 December 1912, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 03 September 1930, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 21 January 1931

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Belvedere student

Born: 26 November 1906, Tullybrackey, Bruff, County Limerick
Entered: 31 August 1922, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 22 November 1923

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Mungret student

Born: County Galway
Entered: 1768, Ghent, Belgium - Belgicae Province (BELG)

Left Society of Jesus: 1770

◆ In Chronological Catalogue Sheet as Ent 1768 and Old/15 (1)

◆ Old/16 has : “Andrew Kirwan: DOB prob Galway; Ent 1768

◆ CATSJ I-Y has Ent 1768 Ghent (ANG CAT 1768)

◆ Fr Edmund Hogan SJ “Catalogica Chronologica” :
DOB probably Galway; Ent 1768;

Born: 03 May 1973, County Cork
Entered: 03 May 1892, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: March 1893

Educated at Belvedere College SJ and Clongowes Wood College SJ

Born: 03 June 1923, Walm Lane, Mapesbury, London, England
Entered: 07 September 1961, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois (HIB forPOL Mi)

Left Society of Jesus: 14 November 1961

Brother Novice

4 Brothers and 6 Sisters

Came to Ireland for Novitiate at the request of Fr Stanislaus Skudryzyk SJ, of the Jesuit Fathers Polish Mission at Walm Lane in London (PolMi).

Born:
Entered: 30 July 1643. San Andrea, Rome, Italy - Romanae Province (ROM

Left Society of Jesus: 1645

◆ In Chronological Catalogue Sheet as Ent 32th (sic) July 1643

◆ Old/15 (1) has 2 entries, 1 in pencil (16) Ent 30/07/1643

◆ Old/17 has Ent 30/07/1643 St Andrea age 31 coad temp

◆ CATSJ I-Y has Ent 30/07/1643 St Andrea age 31

◆ Calendar of MacErlean Transcipts Addenda Irishmen who entered Rome and Spain 1561-1772 (Finegan)
Denis Lalor 31 tailor
30 July 1643 Entered St Andrea Rome

Born: 31 March 1946, Lissan, Cookstown, County Tyrone
Entered: 24 November 1968, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Ordained: 05 June 1985, Dublin
Died: 31 March 2019, St Columban Missionaries, Dalgan Park, Navan, County Meath

Left Society of Jesus: 13 November 1970

Father was Patrick J and Mother was Catherine (O’Brien). Family lived from 1961at Garraid, Moneymore Road, Magherafelt, County Derry

3 Brothers, 1 Sister (2 brothers priests)

Played football for Derry Minors

Educated at St Patrick’s, Armagh and then obtained an MA in Classics at UCD, 1968. Was in St Patrick’s College, Maynooth as a seminarian for a year (1963-1964) before he entered the Society.

Baptised at St Michael’s Church Tullynure Road, Lissan, Cookstown, County Tyrone, 01/04/1946
Confirmed at St Michael’s Church Tullynure Road, Lissan, Cookstown, County Tyrone, by Dardinal D’Alton of Armagh, 09/05/1955

After leaving he went home to Magherafelt and taught for a while, also founding a local branch of the SDLP, being elected to represent Mid-Ulster in the Stormont Assembly in 1973, nbecoming the SDLP spokesman on legal affairs. He also studied Law at Queen’s University, Belfast and was called to the Bar.

1981 He went to Holy Cross College, Clonliffe for Dublin and was ordained in 1985 and worked at Corpus Christi, Drumcondra. He then went to Chile as an associate of the Columban Fathers, and on his return was appointed Chaplain at Trinity College Dublin.

In 2002, he joined the Columban Fathers, returned to Chile at Alto Hospicio, Iquique, Chile, where he organised a secondary school - the first in the area.

In 2006 he was diagnosed with Parkinsons disease and returned to Ireland at Dalgan Park.

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Fr Aidan Larkin played a leading role in development of SDLP
An Appreciation: Fr Larkin spent many years working in deprived areas in Chile

Fr Aidan Larkin, who played a leading role in the development of the SDLP and represented Mid Ulster in Stormont, led a varied and very fulfilling life.

He was born in Lissan, near Cookstown, Co Tyrone, where both parents were principals of primary schools. He thrived at St Patrick’s College Armagh, and later joined his brothers Sean and Patrick in Maynooth. He transferred to UCD where he graduated with a first class honours Masters in ancient classics. He then entered the Jesuit Novitiate in Emo.

He left the Novitiate after a year, returning to Magherafelt, Co Derry, where he took up teaching and joined the newly formed SDLP. He founded a branch of the party in Magherafelt and in 1972 he won a seat on Magherafelt Council. For him the SDLP incorporated the best features of non-violent republicanism and of nationalist constitutionalism. In 1973 alongside Ivan Cooper, a close friend, he was elected to represent Mid- Ulster in the Stormont Assembly which implemented the Sunningdale Agreement.

He saw the need to legislate for civil rights and equality and this led him to study law at Queen’s University and to practise at the Bar. As SDLP spokesman on legal affairs, he made several submissions on law, justice and rights issues and took one of the first successful anti- discrimination cases.

Bleak period
Sunningdale was destroyed by the Ulster Workers Council and the Provisional IRA. As he had warned, politics entered a bleak period of drift and stalemate, he was appalled by the violence.

Subsequently he was appointed to the legal service of the European Council in 1976, but gradually the idea of priesthood returned.

In 1981 he joined Clonliffe College, the diocesan seminary of the Archdiocese of Dublin and was ordained in 1985. He spent five happy years in Corpus Christi parish Drumcondra. He then worked in Chile as a diocesan associate with the Columban Fathers. He spent six years ministering in a deprived area of Santiago and built a church there, mainly with funds provided by his father.

He returned to Ireland and was appointed chaplain to Trinity College Dublin. In 2002 he joined the Columbans, returned to Chile and spent four years ministering in Alto Hospicio , a shanty town in Northern Chile. There he organised the provision of the first secondary school in the area.

Parkinson’s
In 2006 he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s and returned to Ireland, to reside in the Columban Centre in Dalgan. He wrote Saint Columbanus Pilgrim for Christ and prepared the book St Patrick and the Fathers of the Church.

His final months were difficult but he bore them stoically.

His life was ultimately defined by his drive to know, love and serve God and his unwavering loyalty to the church and its teaching. He had many abilities. He was an accomplished scholar and linguist. He was a capable, thoughtful and inspiring politician. He could have built a career as a barrister or a European official. He was well read in theology and doctrine. One could imagine him as a key official of the Curia. Yet while he had his health he pursued a path that saw him instead putting his gifts at the service of the poor in a desert in Chile.

He died on March 31st and is survived by his brothers Father Sean and Father Patrick Larkin, his brother Colm and his sister Roisin.

https://columbans.ie/fr-aidan-larkin/

Fr Aidan Larkin
Apr 5, 2019

Fr Aidan was born on 31 March 1946 in the Parish of Lissan, Cookstown, Co Tyrone. He was educated at Lissan PS and St Patrick’s College, Armagh.

After Armagh he spent a year in Maynooth before leaving to complete his BA in UCD. Still feeling called to priesthood, he spent two years in the Jesuit Novitiate.

Again changing his mind, he joined the newly founded SDLP, winning a seat on Magherafelt Council in 1972 and the Northern Ireland Assembly a year later.

Inspired by Martin Luther King and the American Civil Rights Movement he studied law at Queen’s University Belfast, qualified as a barrister, and worked for nearly five years in the Secretariate of the EEC Council of Ministers, Brussels.

There he came in contact with the Charismatic Renewal Movement and the desire to be ordained priest returned.

In 1981, he entered Holy Cross College Clonliffe, where he was ordained for the Archdiocese of Dublin on 5 June 1985. He served as curate in the Parish of Drumcondra, Dublin from 1985 to 1990.

He volunteered as an associate priest with the Columbans in Chile from 1991 to 1997. On his return to Dublin he was appointed University Chaplain at Trinity College, Dublin and served there until 2002.

At this stage, Aidan applied for temporary aggregation in the Society of St Columban. He was appointed to Chile and served in the city of Iquique where he was responsible for building two churches.

He became a permanent member of the Society on 1 October 2005.

In 2008, Aidan was diagnosed with the early stages of Parkinson’s Disease and in 2010, at the request of the Superior General, he returned to Ireland and began research on recent writings on St Columban.

The results of this research were published in book form in 2012 under the title ‘St Columbanus, Pilgrim for Christ’. Since then, in spite of deteriorating health, Aidan has planned and researched another book on St Patrick and his writings.

Aidan was a serious, earnest, dedicated priest and scholar and as a missionary he placed his unique experience of politics and law at the service of the powerless.

He coped bravely with his deteriorating health and continued his research in spite of it. He died on 31 March 2019, his birthday.

May he rest in peace.

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The death has occurred of

Fr. Aidan Larkin
St. Columban's, Dalgan Park, Navan, Meath / Magherafelt, Derry

The death has occurred of Fr. Aidan Larkin (Columban Fathers) St. Columban's, Dalgan Park, Navan and late of Magherafelt, Co. Derry and Chile Missions. 31st March 2019; peacefully in the loving care of the staff at St. Columban's Retirement Home, Dalgan Park, Navan. Fr. Aidan, predeceased by his parents Patrick and Catherine; very deeply regretted by his sister Roisin; brother's Fr. Sean, Fr. Patrick and Colm; brother-in-law John; sister-in-law Orlagh; nieces, nephews, extended family, Columban Family and friends.

Date Published:
Monday 1st April 2019

Date of Death:
Sunday 31st March 2019

Born: 12 February 1924, County View Terrace, Limerick
Entered: 07 September 1942, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Died: 18 November 2017, Shelbourne Road, Limerick City, Limerick

Left Society of Jesus: 10 January 1944

Father, Henry, was a builder. and Mother was Bridget (McCarthy)

Fourth in a family of nine with two brothers and six sisters

Educated at a National School and then at Crescent College SJ for nine years.

Baptised at St Joseph’s Church, O’Connell Avenue, Limerick, 15/02/1924
Confirmed at St Joseph’s Church, O’Connell Avenue, Limerick, by Dr Keane of Limerick, 29/06/1936

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The death has occurred of Dr Harry LEAHY
Shelbourne Road, Limerick City, Limerick

Dr Harry Leahy (Shelbourne Road, Limerick) 18th November 2017, in his 94th year, peacefully at home. Beloved husband of Joan. Dearly loved father of Fiona, Sarah, Criona, Emma, Rebecca, Julie, Harry and the late Geraldine. Dear brother of the late Betty, Fr Maurice SJ, Mary, Kathleen, Nancy and Dr John. Sadly missed by his loving family, sons-in-law, daughter-in-law, grandchildren, sisters Celine and Bernice, nephews, nieces, extended family and friends. Rest in peace.

Born: 16 December 1929,
Entered: 20 June 1961, Cheung Chau Hong Kong (HIB)

Left Society of Jesus: 05 October 1961

Born: 07 December 1879,
Entered: 07September 1898, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: August 1900

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Dismissed August 1900. No Vocation

Born: Australia
Entered: 29 January 1905, Sevenhill, Australia (HIB)

Left Society of Jesus: 1906

Born: 05 April 1871, County Clare
Entered: 24 March 1900, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: April 1902

Born: 24 February 1840, Sicily, Italy
Entered: 29 July 1860, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly - Hiberniae for Siculae Province (HIB for SIC))

Left Society of Jesus: 1862

Born: 20 June 1884, Dundrum House, Dundrum, Dublin, County Dublin
Entered: 06 September 1902, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly
Died: 16 May 1963, Sandyford, County Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: July 1903

Father was Chief Justice in Newfoundland, and died in 1897. Mother lived at New Brighton, Monkstown, Dublin.

3 sisters (one deceased) and none brothers (2 deceased) and is the youngest in the family.

Education at Clongowes

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DICTIONARY OF IRISH BIOGRAPHY

Little, Patrick John (‘P. J.’)

Contributed by
Coleman, Marie

Little, Patrick John (‘P. J.’) (1884–1963), journalist, lawyer, and politician, was born 17 June 1884 in Dundrum, Co. Dublin, son of Philip Francis Little and Mary Jane Little (née Holdwright). His father, born in Canada of Irish parents, was a former leader of the Liberal party in Newfoundland, and served as premier, attorney general, and high court judge in Newfoundland, before coming to Ireland, where he became a supporter of the Irish parliamentary party.

Educated at Clongowes Wood College, Little studied law at UCD, where he was a prominent figure in the Literary and Historical Society. Associated with journalism from his time as manager of UCD's St Stephen's magazine, he was editor of various Sinn Féin newspapers between 1915 and 1926, including Old Ireland, New Ireland, Éire, Sinn Féin, and An Phoblacht. Involved in the forgery of the ‘Castle document’ which ordered the suppression of the Irish Volunteers prior to the Easter rising, he was on the Sinn Féin executive 1917–22, and stood as Sinn Féin candidate for Dublin Rathmines in the 1918 general election but was defeated by the unionist Sir Maurice Edward Dockrell (qv). From April to December 1921 he was a diplomatic representative of Dáil Éireann, visiting South Africa and South America, and in January 1922 attended the Irish Race Conference in Paris as Brazilian representative. He also became a partner in the legal firm Little, Proud, & Ó hUadhaigh, where one of his partners was Seán Ó hUadhaigh (qv).

An opponent of the Anglo–Irish treaty and founder member of Fianna Fáil, he was elected TD for Waterford in the June 1927 general election, a seat he held until his retirement from politics in 1954. Having served (1933–9) as parliamentary secretary to Éamon de Valera (qv) as minister for external affairs and president of the executive council/taoiseach, he was minister for posts and telegraphs 1939–48, which included responsibility for broadcasting. As minister he utilised the influence of his office for the development of arts and music. He had a particular interest in developing the potential of radio, and promoted the broadcasting of traditional and classical music on Radio Éireann, which included the hosting of a large series of public symphonic concerts by RÉ during the 1940s. Opposed to direct political control of broadcasting, he believed that it should be administered by a semi-state body.

Throughout the 1940s he championed unsuccessfully the establishment of a national concert hall, which he linked with his support for a council of national culture. When the British government established the Arts Council of Great Britain in late 1945, he looked to it as a model of what might be established in Ireland. The Arts Act 1951, which established An Chomhairle Ealaíon (Arts Council) and was enacted shortly before the government of John A. Costello (qv) left office, was essentially what Little had proposed in 1946. It was appropriate that de Valera, who regarded Little as his arts advisor, should appoint him director for a five-year term (Costello had intended to appoint Thomas Bodkin (qv)). Despite his age (he was 68 on appointment) he was an energetic director, and effective to the extent that the financial constraints of the early 1950s permitted. He established specialist panels to advise on particular aspects of the arts and followed the British example in launching local advisory committees (an initiative that ultimately petered out). Little did not stand in the 1954 general election.

Outside politics,
Little was involved for many years in working for the sick in Lourdes as a brancardier and was made a chef de service in 1935. He married (1917) Seonaid Ní Leoid; they had no children, but Seonaid had two daughters and a son from a previous marriage. He died 16 May 1963 at his home, Clonlea, Sandyford, Co. Dublin.

Sources
Liam C. Skinner, Politicians by accident (1946); Arts Council of Ireland, Annual Reports (1951–6); James Meenan (ed), Centenary history of the Literary and Historical Society (1955); Ir. Press, 17 May 1963; Maurice Gorham, Forty years of Irish broadcasting (1967); Vincent Browne (ed.), Magill book of Irish politics (1981); Walker; DCB, xii (1990); Brian P. Kennedy, Dreams and responsibilities. The state and the arts in independent Ireland [1990]; Ronan Fanning et al. (ed.), Documents on Irish foreign policy, i, 1919–22 (1998)

Born: 31 May, 1866, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Entered: 25 October 1886, Loyola House, Dromore, County Down
Died: 21 November 1926, Herbert Street, Dublin City, County Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 1888 for health reasons

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - FRANCIS; Clongowes student; LEFT through ill health

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Philip Francis Little, aged 60, a bachelor, a "Private Gentleman", late of 60 Rathmines Road, Dublin, died in a Nursing Home at 5, Herbert Street, Dublin, on 21 November 1926.
The cause of death was Fatty Degeneration of the Heart, of 2 years duration, and Pneumonia, of 3 days duration.

BURIAL
Deansgrange Cemetery
Deans Grange, County Dublin, Ireland

PHILIP FRANCIS LITTLE
Second son of the late
Hon. Judge Little
born May 31st 1866
died November 21st 1926

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Born: 27 October 1888, Demerera, Guyana
Entered: 26 September 1914, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly - - Hiberniae for Siculae Province (HIB for SIC

Left Society of Jesus: 14 October 915

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Doctor before Entry

Born: Ireland
Entered: c 1729, Spain

Left Society of Jesus: 1731

◆ In Chronological Catalogue Sheet as Ent c 1729 and Old/15 (1)

◆ Old/16 has : “Andrew Lynch”; Ent c 1729 Spain

◆ Fr Edmund Hogan SJ “Catalogica Chronologica” :
Ent c 1729;

1727 Fr Ignatius Roche, Irish Mission Superior, says “He was sent to Spain as an apprentice in our factory and had the necessary qualities” (Dr McDonald)