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Born: 08 December 1900,
Entered: 07 June 1918, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1919

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

Born: 24 July 1901,
Entered: 30 September 1919, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly
Died: 11 January 1922

Left Society of Jesus: 16 December 1919

Educated at Belvedere College SJ

1919-1920: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly, Novitiate

Born: 25 June 1886, Dublin
Entered: 23 September 1904, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1904/5

1904-1905: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly, Novitiate

Born:
Entered: 1908, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: by 08 October 1908

Born: 02 February 1877, Dublin
Entered: 16 February 1894, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1894/5

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

Born: 19 August 1870, Liverpool, Lancashire, England
Entered: 24 March 1896, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1897

Born: 29 January 1893, Ferns, County Wexford
Entered: 31 August 1916, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1917

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - LEFT before taking Vows. Had been a student in Maynooth.

Born: 17 October 1880, Dublin
Entered: 07 September 1899, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1901

1899-1901: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly, Novitiate

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - A Ward of Chancery and forced by Court to leave Society till he had come of age, having entered without approval of the Court. Studied for a while at UCD. Did not persevere or return.

Born: 30 June 1902, Dublin
Entered: 20 October 1920, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 25 October 1921

Brother Novice

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Servant at Clongowes; Ent 10 April 1920

Born: 20 June 1899, Ballydaly, Tullamore, County Offaly
Entered: 16 January 1909, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 31 January 1911

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - LEFT before Vows. 31 January1911 - Brother Novice

Born: 14 June 1891, Waverley, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Entered: 07 September 1910, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1912

Father was a produce agent at Bryant & Hayes, Sydney

Second eldest of a family of six boys and four girls.

Early education until 6 at a private school and then at Riverview.

Born: 24 October 1890, Fitzgibbon Street, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 07 September 1907, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1909

Father was a Professor of elocution and he and Mother lived at Lower Leeson Street, Dublin

Lived at Fitzgibbon Street for two years, then Clontarf for eight, and then Lower Leeson Street.

One of three boys and four girls.

Early education at home then at Loreto College, St Stephen’s Green, and then at home again. After that he went to Belvedere College - 1899-1907.

Born: Clonmel, County Tipperary
Entered: 01 February 1907, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg

Left Society of Jesus: 1907

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Only lasted a few days

Born: 09 April 1865,
Entered: 12 November 1887, Loyola House, Dromore, County Down

Left Society of Jesus: 1889

1887-1888: Loyola House, Dromore, County Down, Novitiate
1888-1889: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly, Novitiate

Born: 07 June 1919, Fairview, Dublin, County Dublin
Entered: 08 March 1939, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 02 October 1940

Brother Novice

Father, James, was a heating engineer. Mother was Mary (Hackett).

3 Brothers (including his twin)

Educated at CBS Westland Row, Dublin up to 4th year

Apprenticed at Brightside Engineering Company, Dawson Street, Dublin

Baptised at St Columba’s Catholic Church, Iona Road, Glasnevin, Dublin, 13/06/1919
Comnfirmed at St Columba’s Catholic Church, Iona Road, Glasnevin, Dublin, by Dr Byrne of Dublin, 01/04/1930

Born: 06 January 1886, Ennis, County Clare
Entered: 07 September 1903, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: July 1904

One brother and one sister, and he was the youngest.

Educated at local convent school and Christian Brothers in Ennis and then another college in Ennis. In 1901 he went to Mungret College SJ

Born: 20 September 1920, Mount Street, Claremorris, Co Mayo
Entered: 07 September 1939, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 29 May 1941

Father was an egg exporter retired, and then lived at St Joseph’s, Father Griffin Road, Galway City. Mother was Mary (Greally).

Eldest of two boys.

Early education was six years at Claremorris NS, and then he went to Coláiste Iognáid (1934-1939)

Baptised at St Colman's Church, Dalton Street, Claremorris, County Mayo, 26/09/1920
Confirmed at St Colman's Church, Dalton Street, Claremorris, County Mayo, by Dr Gilmartin of Tuam, 09/05/1931

Born: 18 February 1879, Dublin
Entered: 16 April 1892, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1893

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Left in first year of Noviceship

Born: 24 December 1910, Maghera, County Derry
Entered: 01 September 1928, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 20 June 1930 for health reasons

Born at Maghera County Derry, but as his father who was a businessman died the same year his mother moved to “Pinner”, Malone Road, Belfast, County Antrim, supported by her husband’s business.

Second of four boys.

Early education was at the Christian Brothers school in Belfast, and then he went to Clongowes Wood College

Born: 20 April 1867,
Entered: 30 July 1891, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1892

Born: 12 June 1886,
Entered: 01 February 1915, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1918 for health reasons

1915-1918: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly, Novitiate

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Clongowes Student. LEFT owing to bad health.

Born: 04 August 1896, Carrigeen, County Kilkenny
Entered: 07 December 1938, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 19 May 1939

Brother Novice

1st Probation 06/06/1938 in Manresa, Roehampton, London, England (ANG), then transferred to HIB

Had previously been a Sergeant in Bechuanaland Protectorate police, South Africa for six years

Sought to join the The Missionaries of Saint Francis De Sales (MSFS) in 1945, St Margaret’s House, Wellington Road, Hampton Hill, Middlesex, London

Born: 29 September 1905, Dublin
Entered: 01 September 1923, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 06 May 1924

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Clongowes Student. left Novitiate after 8 months

Born: 22 June 1915, Iona Crescent, Glasnevin, Dublin
Entered: 02 December 1939, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 20 February 1941

Father, George, was a Civil Servant and died in March 1925. Mother was Margaret (Agnes Mulhall). Family lived at High Street, Kilkenny City, County Kilkenny

Second in a family of two boys and two girls.

Early education at Holy Faith Convent Glasnevin and then Christian Brothers, James’ Street, Kilkenny for two years and then at O’Connells School, Dublin. He then went to Rockwell College CSSp. After school he went to UCD studying Architecture and got his degree in 1939.

Baptised at St Columba’s Church, iona Road, Glasnevin, Dublin, 27/06/1915
Confirmed at St Agatha’s Church, North William Street, Dublin, February 1927

Born: 06 March 1898, Inchamore, Killaloe, County Clare
Entered: 20 September 1917, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 09 August 1918

Born: 15 August 1888, Derrigrea, Drimleague, County Cork
Entered: 01 Fenruary 1907, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1908

Parents farmers. Father died in 1896.

Seventh of nine sons and he had one sister.

Educated at Drimoleague NS he went to an NS in Dunmanway for one year, and then to CBC Cork

Born: 06 February 1909, County Cork
Entered: 21 September 1926, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1927

Born: 06 Septemer 1883, St Kevin’s Parade, South Circular Road, Dublin
Entered: 07 September 1900, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 01 September 1902

Father was Superintendant of Dublin Police.

Five brothers and five sisters, of whom three were deceased. He was second eldest son.

Educated at Christian Brothers in Dublin and then Clongowes Wood College SJ

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Clongowes student. Went to Clonliffe after leaving Society

Born: 16 December 1903, Dublin
Entered: 31 August 1921, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 09 February 1922

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Clongowes student. LEFT 09 February 1922

Born: 01 July 1874, Australia
Entered: 07 September 1928, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 23 November 1928

Born: 03 September 1871, Dublin
Entered: 04 November 1888, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1889

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - LEFT after a short while. Joined Marist Brothers

Census 02 April 1911 at Belvidere Avenue, Dublin - clergyman (https://duignan.one-name.net/getperson.php?personID=I10898&tree=Duignan&sitever=mobile)

Born: 01 February 1884, Rathgar Road, Rathgar, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 07 September 1907, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1909

Father a merchant. living at Herberton Park, Dublin.. Mother with his grandmothers and two of his sisters lives at Royal Hibernian Hotel, Dawson Street, Dublin.

His father died when he was quite young and his brother is settled in Australia where he has a number of relatives.

Eldest of five children having one brother and three sisters (1 deceased young).

Educated at St Louis Convent, Charleville Road, Rathmines, then to Terenure College. He then went to St Mary’s College, Rathmines. Following a bout of ill health he was sent to Rockwell College for six months and then to Clongowes Wood College. After Clongowes he wished to join the Army or Navy but was prevented from doing so due to deficiencies in his sight.

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Left in 2nd year Novitiate. Became a secular priest in Westminster Diocese

Born: 04 July 1881,
Entered: 17 September 1899, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1901

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Clongowes student; LEFT from Noviceship. No Vocation

Born: 20 May 1910, Cork City
Entered: 01 September 1927, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 20 November 1927

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - O’DONOVAN; LEFT after Long retreat 1927

Born: 08 January 1878, County Kildare
Entered: 14 August 1896, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: January 1898

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

Born: 20 June 1883, County Kerry
Entered: 24 March 1906, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1906

Must have left shortly after arrival in Novitiate.

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Dismissed as not fit for the Society. Studied for the priesthood in Rome and died a few days before date fixed for ordination.

Born: 20 December 1910,
Entered: 01 September 1928, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 13 April 1929

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - PBS Bray student. LEFT owing to ill health

Born: 01 May 1884, St Asaph, Flintshire, Wales
Entered: 07 September 1899, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1900

Born: England
Entered: 10 July 1912, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: October 1912

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - No DOB; LEFT Society October 1912

Born: 23 May 1879, Glenatallan, Kilconickny, Loughrea, County Galway
Entered: 07 September 1900, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly
Died: 12 July 1953, Ranelagh, Dublin City, County Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: October 1900

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Dismissed from 1st probation. No Vocation

https://www.dib.ie/biography/fahy-francis-patrick-frank-a2988

Fahy, Francis Patrick (‘Frank’)
Contributed by
White, Lawrence William; Ferriter, Diarmaid

Forename: Francis, Patrick
Surname: Fahy
Nickname: Frank
Gender: Male
Career: Politics, Irish Language
Born 23 May 1879 in Co. Galway
Died 12 July 1953 in Co. Dublin

Fahy, Francis Patrick (‘Frank’) (1879–1953), politician and Irish-language activist, was born 23 May 1879 at Glenatallan, Kilconickny, Loughrea, Co. Galway, eldest among five sons and two daughters of John Fahy, teacher, and Maria Fahy (née Jones). After receiving initial education at his father's national school at Kilchreest, Co. Galway, he boarded at Mungret College, Limerick, and subsequently graduated from UCG with a BA and an H.Dip. in education and double diploma in science; he was also called to the bar in 1927 at King's Inns, Dublin. On leaving UCG he began teaching at the Christian Brothers' school in Tralee, and afterwards taught Latin, Irish, and science at St Vincent's College, Castleknock, Dublin (1906–21). Closely associated with Patrick Pearse (qv), Thomas MacDonagh (qv), and Arthur Griffith (qv), Fahy became a Gaelic League activist (and, later, general secretary of the league), and treasurer of the Kerry county board of the GAA. During school holidays he assisted Liam Mellows (qv) in organising units of the Irish Volunteers, of which he was a founding member, in his native area of east Galway. As captain of C Company, 1st Bn, Dublin Bde, under Edward Daly (qv), he commanded the contingent that occupied the Four Courts during the 1916 rising. Sentenced to ten years in prison, he spent terms in several British jails. Released in the general amnesty of June 1917, he was active in the reorganisation of the Volunteer movement, addressing public meetings throughout the country. Again arrested during the ‘German plot’ round-up of May 1918, he was deported without trial to Reading jail. Sinn Féin candidate in Galway South, he captured 85% of the vote in the December 1918 general election, trouncing the incumbent nationalist MP William John Duffy, who had held the seat for eighteen years, and commenced a thirty-five-year tenure representing several Galway constituencies that would conclude only in his death (Galway South,1918–21; Galway, 1921–37; Galway East, 1937–48; Galway South, 1948–53). A member of the first Dáil Éireann, he toured the Aran islands and Connemara on behalf of a committee examining options for revitalisation of the Irish fishing industry (a prominent feature of Sinn Féin's economic programme), and was appointed assistant minister for the national language under J. J. O'Kelly (qv). Continuing the while in his teaching post, and seeing active IRA service during the Anglo-Irish war, he is reputed to have appeared in his classroom with eyebrows singed on the day after the burning of the Custom House (25 May 1921). Although opposed to the Anglo-Irish treaty, Fahy took a more judicious and balanced approach to the issue than some of his republican colleagues, denouncing in dáil debate the intimidation of TDs by elements of the anti-treaty IRA. While asserting that, had the treaty been submitted unsigned to the dáil, it would have been rejected by an overwhelming majority, he refused to impugn the honour or integrity of the plenipotentiaries, and acknowledged their unenviable position in the London negotiations. Describing the agreement as a fait accompli on which further argument and decision must be based, he nonetheless asked: ‘Is not the declaration of the republic also a fait accompli, or have we been playing at republicanism?’ (Treaty debs., 195). He clung to the last of seven Galway seats as anti-treaty candidate in the June 1922 election. His approach, on behalf of a Gaelic League peace committee, to Austin Stack (qv) in the hope of arranging a truce during the civil war (December 1922) met with a guardedly favourable response from Éamon de Valera (qv), but was frustrated by the persisting expectations of military victory of the anti-treaty chief of staff, Liam Lynch (qv). Re-entering the dáil chamber with the new Fianna Fáil party in 1927, after the party's victory in the 1932 general election – in which he topped the poll in his constituency – he was elected ceann comhairle, a position he held till 1951, returned automatically to his dáil seat through seven general elections. He also became chairman of both the local appointments and the civil service commissions. Regarded as judicious and impartial in the speaker's chair, he retained the office even after Fianna Fáil's 1948 electoral defeat, perhaps also in recognition of the moderate position he had adopted on the treaty. In 1949 he led the Irish delegation to the meeting of the Inter-Parliamentary Union at Stockholm, where he spoke of ‘unequal treaties’ and made a forthright statement opposing the partition of Ireland. He presided at the Inter-Parliamentary conference when it met in Dublin in 1950. The following year he resigned as ceann comhairle on health grounds. Fahy married (1908) Anna Barton from Tralee, a metal artist and active member of Cumann na mBan; they had no children. Resident at the time of the Easter rising at Islandbridge, during his lengthy dáil tenure they lived at addresses in Howth, Whitehall, and Dundrum. Still a sitting TD, he died on 12 July 1953 as a result of heart disease at his home in Ranelagh, Dublin.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Fahy_(politician)

Frank Fahy (politician)

Francis Patrick Fahy (23 May 1879 – 12 July 1953) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann from 1932 to 1951. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) from 1919 to his death in 1953.[1]

He was a Teachta Dála (TD) for 35 years, first for Sinn Féin and later as a member of Fianna Fáil, before becoming Ceann Comhairle (chairman) for over 19 years.[2]

Early life and revolutionary period
Fahy was born on 23 May 1879 in the townland of Glanatallin, Kilchreest, County Galway,[3] the eldest of 6 children born to John Fahy and Maria Jones. His father taught at the local National School. After an early education at his father's school in Kilchreest, he attended Mungret College in County Limerick. He later studied at University College Galway. He earned a Bachelor of Arts and a H.Dip. in Education, and a Diploma in Science. From 1906 to 1921 he taught Latin, Irish and Science at Castleknock College (St Vincent's College), Dublin. Fahy qualified as a barrister in 1927 at King's Inns, Dublin and also taught at the Christian Brothers school in Tralee. He was at one time General Secretary of the Conradh na Gaeilge. He married Anna Barton of Tralee, a metal artist and member of the Cumann na mBan in 1908. They had no children.[2]

As Company Captain of C Company, 1 Battalion, Dublin Brigade, Irish Volunteers, Fahy commanded the contingent that occupied the Four Courts during the 1916 rising. Arrested and sentenced to ten years in prison, he spent terms in several British jails. Released in the general amnesty of June 1917, he was active in the reorganisation of the Volunteer movement, addressing public meetings throughout the country.[2] Fahy later applied to the Irish government for a service pension under the Military Service Pensions Act, 1934 and was awarded 5 and 1/6 years service in 1937 at Grade D for his service with the Irish Volunteers from 23 April 1916 to June 1917.[4]

Fahy was first elected at the 1918 general election as a Sinn Féin Member of Parliament (MP) for Galway South, but as the party was pledged to abstentionism he did not take his seat in the British House of Commons and joined the revolutionary First Dáil. He was re-elected as TD for Galway in 1921 general election and having sided with the anti-treaty forces following the Anglo-Irish Treaty, he did not take his seat in either the 3rd Dáil or the 4th Dáil. He joined Fianna Fáil when the party was founded in 1926, and along with the 42 other Fianna Fáil TDs he took his seat in the 5th Dáil on 12 August 1927,[5] three days before the Dáil tied 71 votes to 71 on a motion of no confidence in W. T. Cosgrave's Cumann na nGaedheal government (a tie broken by the Ceann Comhairle).[6] After the government won two by-elections later that month, it dissolved the Dáil, leading to a fresh election.

After the September 1927 election, Cosgrave was able to form a minority government with the support of the Farmers' Party and some independent TDs. However, in the 1932 general election, Fianna Fáil won just under half of the seats and formed a government with the support of the Labour Party. The first business was of the 7th Dáil was the election of the Ceann Comhairle, and on 9 March 1932 Fahy was nominated for the position by Seán T. O'Kelly, winning the vote by a margin of 78 to 71.[7]

He held the post until Fianna Fáil lost the 1951 election, and at the start of the 14th Dáil he did not offer himself for re-election as Ceann Comhairle. He was succeeded by the Labour TD Patrick Hogan.[8] His 19 years in the chair remains the longest of any Ceann Comhairle, with the only other person to exceed 10 years as Ceann Comhairle being his successor, Patrick Hogan.[9]

The 1932 election was the last which Fahy contested; as Ceann Comhairle, he was automatically re-elected at the next seven elections. When his Galway constituency was divided for the 1937 general election, he was returned unopposed for the new Galway East, and similarly in 1948 for the new Galway South constituency.[10]

Fahy died on 12 July 1953,[11] and is buried at Deans Grange Cemetery, Dublin. The Galway South by-election held after his death was won by the Fianna Fáil candidate Robert Lahiffe.[12]

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"Frank Fahy". Oireachtas Members Database. Retrieved 8 January 2008.
White, Lawrence William; Ferriter, Diarmaid. "Fahy, Francis Patrick". Dictionary of Irish Biography. Retrieved 5 January 2022.
"General Registrar's Office" (PDF). IrishGenealogy.ie. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
Irish Military Archives, Military Service (1916-1923) Pension Collection, Frank Fahy, MSP34REF37327. Available online at http://mspcsearch.militaryarchives.ie/search.aspx?formtype=advanced.
"Dáil Éireann debates, Volume 20, 12 August 1927: New deputies take their seats". Houses of the Oireachtas. Archived from the original on 7 June 2011. Retrieved 8 January 2008.
"PUBLIC BUSINESS. – NO CONFIDENCE MOTION – Dáil Éireann (5th Dáil)". Houses of the Oireachtas. 16 August 1927. Archived from the original on 28 August 2019. Retrieved
"Election of Ceann Comhairle – Dáil Éireann (7th Dáil) – Vol. 41 No. 1". Houses of the Oireachtas. 9 March 1932. Archived from the original on 17 August 2022. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
"Dáil Éireann debates, Volume 126, 13 June 1951: Election of Ceann Comhairle". Houses of the Oireachtas. Archived from the original on 7 June 2011. Retrieved 8 January 2008.
"Former office holders". Houses of the Oireachtas. Retrieved 3 December 2022.
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"Death of Mr Frank Fahy TD". Derry Journal. 13 July 1953 – via British Newspaper Archive.
"Galway South by-election, 21 August 1953". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 8 January 2008.

Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann
In office 9 March 1932 – 13 June 1951
Preceded by Michael Hayes
Succeeded by Patrick Hogan

Teachta Dála
In office May 1951 – 12 July 1953
Constituency Galway South

In office July 1937 – May 1951
Constituency Galway East

In office May 1921 – July 1937
Constituency Galway

In office December 1918 – May 1921
Constituency Galway South

Personal details
Born Francis Patrick Fahy
23 May 1879
Kilchreest, County Galway, Ireland
Died 12 July 1953 (aged 73)
Phibsborough, Dublin, Ireland
Resting place Deans Grange Cemetery, Dublin, Ireland
Political party Fianna Fáil
Spouse Anna Barton ​(m. 1908)​
Education Mungret College
Alma mater University College Galway

Born: 23 August 1878, Dublin City, CountyDublin
Entered: 09 September 1896, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: November 1897

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Solicitor’s Clerk before entry; Brother Novice Dismissed November 1897, No Vocation

Born: 01 September 1902, Dublin City
Entered: 31 August 1920, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 06 April 1922

Educated at Mungret College SJ

Born: 06 October 1869,
Entered: 09 October 1896, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: December 1896

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Army, artillery before entry; Brother Novice Dismissed December 1896, No Vocation

Born: 23 June 1842-,
Entered: 03 November 1859, Naples Italy (NAP) / 2nd year Novitiate at Tullabeg (HIB)
Ordained: 1872

Left Society of Jesus: 1896

1859-1860: Naples, Italy (NAP), Novitiate
1860-1861: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly (HIB), Novitiate
1861-1864: Aix-les-Bains, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France (LUGD), Rhetoric then Philosophy
1864-1866: Vals, près le Puy, France (TOLO), Philosophy
1866-1867: Sainte Joseph’s Collège SJ, Bordeaux, France (TOLO), Regency
1867-1869: Sainte Marie Collège, Toulouse, France (TOLO), Regency
1869-1870: Cynthia College, Vatican City, Italy, Theology
1870-1874: Innsbruck Kolleg, Innsbruck, Austria (ASR), Theology
1874-1875: Frederick MD, USA (MAR), Tertianship
1875-1876: Georgetown College, Geotgetown, Washington DC, USA (MAR), Teaching
1876-1877: Holy Family Church, 17th and Stiles Streets, Philadelphia PA, USA (MAR), teaching in parish school
1877-1879: Woodstock College, Woodstock MD, USA (MAR), Curate in Church and Missioner to Sykesville
1879-1881: Church of the Sacred Heart, Larimer and 28th Streets, Denver CO, USA, Curate
1881-1883: Catholic Church, Pueblo CO, USA, Curate
1883-1887: Albuquerque Residence, Old Albuquerque NM, USA, Curate
1887-1888: Las Vegas College, Las Vegas NM, USA, awaiting mission
1888-1890: Prescott, Arizona, USA, Curate
1890-1892: El Paso Residence, Oregon Street, El Paso, Texas, USA, Bursar and Curate
1892-1895: Catholic Church, Canon City CO, USA, Curate

Born: 18 May 1897, Main Street, Granard, County Longford
Entered: 23 June 1915, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1918

Father is a farmer and grocer and mother died in 1898.

Only child of the marriage to his mother. Has a half-brother and a half-sister from his father’s previous marriage. His father remarried again

Educated initially at his uncle’s National School with additional private tuition from him, and incuded attending carpentry classes at the Board of Agriculture in Granard, He then went to St Mel’s Seminary in Longford (1911-1914) and for his final year went to Mungret College SJ

Born: 26 May 1891, Mount Vincent Terrace, Limerick City, County Limerick
Entered: 01 September 1908, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 26 March 1910

Father is a commercial traveller and shareholder. He also has private means.

Second eldest of three boys and four girls.

Educated at a local convent school and then Crescent College SJ

Born: 05 May 1890,
Entered: 30 August 1913, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1914

Born: 10 August 1889, County Limerick
Entered: 15 June 1909, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 03 March 1910

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Brother Novice; LEFT 03 March 1910. No Voctaion

Born: 08 May 1869, County Tipperary
Entered: 07 September 1888, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1889

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - LEFT during Novitiate - No vocation and quite unfit

Born: 11 April 1883, County Monaghan
Entered: 07 September 1900, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1900

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Dismissed from 1st probation. No vocation

Born: 29 June 1894, County Cork
Entered: 24 August 1893, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1894

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Brother Novice. LEFT after some months. Not suitable

Born: 07 October 1891, Glasgow, Lanarkshire,Scotland
Entered: 17 January 1916, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: February 1916

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Called away by conscription after 6 weeks.

Born: 28 March 1898, South Africa
Entered: 23 June 1915, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: December 1916

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Clongowes student; LEFT Society after 5.5 months. Born in South Africa, was then living in Ballina, County Mayo

Born: 02 September 1888, Clare Street, Limerick City, County Limerick
Entered: 07 September 1910, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1912

Father was a mechanical engineer and died in 1896. Family lived at Maryville, Thomondgate, Limerick City. Mother lived subsequently at Ardhu House, North Circular Road, Limerick supported by her sons.

Youngest of eight sons and there are four daughters.

Educated for 11 years at Christian Brothers Limerick he went to Crescent College SJ (1904-1909)

Born: 06 October 1908, Society Street, Ballinasloe, County Galway
Entered: 01 September 1926, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 31 August 1928 for health reasons

Mother died when he was six years old, and father died five years later. A paternal aunt has been guardian for the family.

Eldest of three boys (youngest died in infancy) and he has an older sister.

Educated at a Convent school in Banagher, County Offaly, and another at Skerries, County Dublin he went to Clongowes Wood College (1919-1926).

Born:
Entered: 04 November 1888, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1889

Born: 02 June 1882, County Cork
Entered: 07 September 1909, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1911

Born:
Entered: 1921, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly
Ordained:

Left Society of Jesus: 07 December 1921

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Brother Novice. LEFT 07/12/1921

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: 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: 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: 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: 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.

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 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 06 October 1895, Cork City, County Cork
Entered: 23 September 1891, St Stanislaus, Macon GA, USA - Neo Aurelianensis Province (NOR)

Left Society of Jesus: July 1892

2nd year Novitiate at Tullabeg (HIB)

Educated at Castleknock College and PBC Cork and Royal University, Dublin

Born: 12 February 1886, Miltown Malbay, County Clare
Entered: 08 September 1903, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly
Died: 29 September 1948, West Cliff, Spanish Point, County Clare, Ireland

Left Society of Jesus: August 1904

Parents farmers.

Fourth of a family of nine, six brothers (1 deceased) and three sisters (2 deceased).

Early education was at a local NS, and then with a tutor from Dublin. At 11 he went to Clongowes

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Daniel Ignatius MacClancy
Birth
12 Feb 1886 - Miltown Malbay, Clare, Ireland
Death
29 Sep 1948 - West Cliff, Spanish Point, Clare, Ireland
Mother
Mary E McMahon
Father
James Snr MacClancy

Born: 09 October 1876, Boyle, County Roscommon
Entered: 20 May 1897, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1897

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - LEFT No vocation

Born: 03 October 1837, County Clare
Entered: 30 April 1962, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1862

Born: 08 May 1897, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 31 August 1921, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 04 November 1921

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Bank Clerk before entry

Born: 12 March 1871,
Entered: 15 June 1889, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1890

Born: 28 March 1883, Clonmel, County Tipperary
Entered: 07 September 1900, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: October 1900

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - LEFT 1st probation. No vocation, at least not then.

Born: 14 July 1917, Brighton Terrace, Cobh, County Cork
Entered: 14 September 1938, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 12 March 1940

Father, Thomas, worked in Customs and Excise at Cobh. Mother was Mary (Murphy). Family resided at Hawthorn Terrace, Cobh, County Cork

Eldest of three boys with one sister. (Oldest brother was an invalid)

Early education was at a private school and then at the Presentation Brothers Cobh for 12 years (1928-1935). After school then worked as a clerical officer in the Civil Service in Dublin for almost three years, living at Millmount Terrace, Drumcondra, Dublin.

Baptised at St Colman's Cathedral, Cathedral Place, Cobh, County Cork, 27/07/1938
Confirmed at St Colman's Cathedral, Cathedral Place, Cobh, County Cork, by Dr Browne of Cloyne, 16/06/1928

Born: 31 January 1874, County Westmeath
Entered: 30 July 1891, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1892

Born: 03 August 1877,
Entered: 07 September 1897, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1898

Born: 23 May 1888, Loughrea, County Galway
Entered: 06 May 1920, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1921

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Draper before entry

Born: 06 April 1890, County Longford
Entered: 13 January 1920, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 14 January 1922

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Brother Novice; A Clerk in London before Entry

Born: 23 December 1919, Deerpark, Castlecomer, County Kilkenny
Entered: 07 September 1937, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly
Died: 08 November 2003, County Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 05 February 1938

Father, John, was Barrack foreman of works at Portobello. Mother was Anne (Brennan), Family then resided at North Circular Road, Dublin from 1923

Older of two boys with three sisters.

Early education at a Convent school and then at Westland Row CBS. He then went to O’Connells School until 1937

Baptised at Church of the Immaculate Conception, Kilkenny Street, Castlecomer, County Kilkenny, 24/12/1919
Confirmed at St Andrew’s Church, Westland Row, Dublin, 20/02/1930

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McGough, Joseph Christopher (Joe)
Contributed by
Clavin, Terry

McGough, Joseph Christopher (Joe) (1919–2003), army officer, barrister and businessman, was born 23 December 1919 at Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny, the fourth child and first son of John McGough, originally of Co. Clare, and his wife Ann (née Brennan). His father, having served as a lieutenant in the Royal Engineers, joined the Irish army on the formation of the Irish Free State (1922). In 1923, he was transferred to Beggars Bush barracks in Dublin, settling with his family on the North Circular Road; Joseph attended the nearby O’Connell’s CBS. In 1938, he commenced an arts degree at UCD, but switched to law a year later. At secondary school he had organised sporting events and he was similarly active at college; a member of the UCD rowing club, he also served as secretary of the Students’ Representative Council.

Army and law He enlisted in the Defence Forces on 29 June 1940. A member of the Army Signal Corps, he was commissioned a second lieutenant within two months, and was subsequently promoted first lieutenant (1942) and captain (1946). During the 1940s, he completed a course in electronics in Kevin Street College of Technology. He served throughout the country, including service with the Irish‐speaking Céad Cath battalion in Galway. On 1 August 1945 he married Dr Ann Frances (Nancy) Hanratty, a psychologist, daughter of John Hanratty of Parnell Square, Dublin. They had a son and a daughter. From 1948 the family lived in an impressive Georgian house – later a listed building – in Rathfarnham, Co. Dublin. Attached (as a member of the Signal Corps) to the Army Air Corp at Baldonnell, Co. Dublin, he enrolled at King’s Inns in 1947, qualifying as a barrister in 1951; he was called to the English Bar six years later. He served as staff officer to the director of signals at Army HQ from 1949 to 1955, when he was appointed one of two judge advocates on the staff of the adjutant general; he was promoted commandant soon after.

By 1960 his pension entitlement was sufficiently generous to permit him to retire from the army and practise at the bar. While sick with influenza in early 1962, he applied (apparently on a whim) for three jobs advertised in the newspapers. All three applications were successful and he elected to become the secretary of An Bord Bainne (the milk board), a newly established state agency. This career change was facilitated by his service in a part‐time capacity during 1960–62 as secretary to the Irish Exporters Association through which he obtained in autumn 1961 a scholarship for a twelve‐week marketing course in Harvard.

Kerrygold With his newly acquired marketing knowledge, and possessing administrative expertise and an understanding of the civil service mindset, McGough was suitably qualified for the daunting task at hand. Irish dairy was geared towards self‐sufficiency and hobbled by a surfeit of small, inefficient creameries which, like the dairy farmers, were resistant to change and unwilling to consider the good of the industry over their own interests. Bord Bainne effectively provided a minimum price for farmers’ milk by buying dairy products for export from the creameries at a guaranteed price with two‐thirds of any resulting loss being absorbed by the Exchequer – the remainder was passed back to the dairy farmer in the form of a levy.

With McGough as his right‐hand man, the Bord Bainne general manager Tony O’Reilly sought to cajole a faction‐ridden board into supporting an export drive. McGough established an immediate rapport with the youthful O’Reilly with whom he shared a sharp sense of humour. In his reminiscences, O’Reilly emerges as eager to lead the modernisation of Irish economic life and inwardly exasperated by the incomprehension and hostility with which farmers and dairy producers greeted his strictures. Older and more inclined to accept the world as it was, McGough’s diplomacy complemented O’Reilly’s zeal; so too did his ability to defuse a tense situation with a well‐timed quip. Their first and most important initiative was the launch of Kerrygold, the first ever branded Irish butter made specifically for the British market. The campaign, which began in October 1962, proved a resounding success by utilising modern marketing techniques in promoting a very traditional view of Ireland as an unspoilt Arcadia. Both McGough and O’Reilly worked frenetically on the campaign and it was the making of them.

Bord Bainne head McGough became assistant to the general manager in April 1965 before succeeding O’Reilly in late 1966. A fluent and witty speaker (much in demand for speaking engagements) he showed a particular flair for dealing with the media, which combined with the goodwill generated by the success of Kerrygold guaranteed him a largely adoring press, who portrayed him as the archetypal Lemass‐era business leader driving the country’s renewed engagement with modernity and the wider world through the medium of commerce.

Nonetheless the Bord Bainne ‘success story’ did elicit more cynical responses in some sections of the press and among the wider public who were subsidizing dairy export losses while having to pay higher prices for domestic dairy products. In particular Bord Bainne’s failure to produce fully transparent financial statements drew adverse comment. Undoubtedly very good at marketing Irish dairy products abroad, he also excelled at promoting the heavily subsidized dairy sector and the marketing skills of both Bord Bainne and himself to the non‐farming Irish public. A consummate insider, his urbane manner and relentless optimism made it easy to caricature him as an overly complacent member of the state sector aristocracy.

Pre‐EEC McGough promoted the ongoing diversification of Irish dairy manufacturing into products that were less reliant or not at all reliant on subsidies, such as cheese, skimmed milk powder, fresh creams and chocolate crumb, although butter remained predominant because it absorbed the most milk. In the UK he focused on developing a market for quality Irish cheeses, which culminated in the launch of Kerrygold cheese in 1969. The quota system imposed on Irish dairy products imported into the UK led him to continue the policy of orderly marketing whereby a demand was first created for a product thereby strengthening Ireland’s efforts to have import quotas increased.

His early years as general manager were spent grappling with Ireland’s ballooning exportable milk surplus, which rose from 120 million gallons in 1962 to some 340 million gallons in 1970. With the UK only gradually lifting its import quotas and with Ireland shut out of the most important continental markets by the EEC, McGough was obliged to seek more far‐flung outlets, leading him to travel 245,646 miles between 1 January 1967 and 31 March 1970. Bord Bainne in 1969 invested £12 million in a plant in the Philippines for reconstituting Irish skimmed milk to accord with regional preferences. But during 1968–9 the global overproduction of milk precipitated a collapse in world dairy prices and this meant that some 10% of Ireland’s milk output could not be disposed of in a remotely economical fashion. Unsurprisingly McGough and Bord Bainne came in for much knee‐jerk criticism, although an independent economic survey conducted in 1970 found that Bord Bainne was performing well given the circumstances.

The advent of the EEC’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) intensified Ireland’s reliance on the UK dairy market and the failure in 1970–71 of Bord Bainne’s Filipino venture was another blow to non‐UK exports. In early 1972 McGough used the capital salvaged from the Philippines failure to establish Bord Bainne’s own distribution network in the UK by acquiring Adams Foods, a UK butter and packaging company, with a view to diversifying into marketing and distributing a wide range of foodstuffs including dairy produce sold by Ireland’s competitors within the UK. This alarmed Irish dairy interests, but McGough’s success in building Adams Foods into a profitable foodstuffs company that made Kerrygold products available throughout the UK silenced his detractors.

Inside the EEC Concerns about continental competition within the Irish market once Ireland and the UK joined the EEC helped McGough to persuade the co‐ops to accept the introduction of the Kerrygold brand into Ireland on a restricted basis in 1972. Following Ireland’s accession to EEC membership in 1973 McGough was praised for his foresight, for the manner in which Bord Bainne was skillfully exploiting CAP regulations to sell in non‐EEC markets, and for the speed with which it moved into continental markets, particularly the Ruhr valley in West Germany.

He also handled with assurance the transformation of Bord Bainne from a semi-state institution into a cooperative (more precisely an export cooperative of all the Irish dairy cooperatives) so as to comply with EEC anti‐monopoly regulations. Under the new dispensation Bord Bainne, with McGough as managing director, served as a proxy for the EEC’s intervention authority by buying dairy products for export from the cooperatives at or near intervention price and by distributing any profit achieved evenly among the cooperatives. Bord Bainne as a cooperative enjoyed a privileged relationship with the state, which pledged to underwrite its borrowings up to £5 million; a guarantee that rose to £40 million by 1977. But one happy consequence for McGough of Bord Bainne’s new status was its freedom from public sector pay restrictions; this facilitated a rise in McGough’s own yearly salary from £6,000 in 1973 to £26,000 in 1977, comfortably outstripping inflation.

McGough’s policy was to use intervention only as a last resort and he noted proudly that he sold no butter into intervention, a strategy considered eccentric in other EEC countries, and by some Irish dairy manufacturers. McGough justified it as designed to strengthen Ireland’s hand in EEC negotiations; more pertinently, sales into intervention might lead to questions about the Irish dairy industry’s need for a central marketing agency.

Entry into the EEC removed the burden of guaranteeing milk prices from the Irish taxpayer and the EEC more than trebled the price of milk per gallon by 1977. Nonetheless, smarting from their experiences in the late 1960s Irish farmers were reluctant to recommit themselves to dairying, and milk production fell in 1974 after a severe winter. McGough launched a well‐publicised ‘More milk’ campaign, yielding a dramatic rise in production from 590 million gallons in 1974 to 735 million gallons in 1977.

Problems However, the workings of the EEC also had the effect of restricting and undermining Bord Bainne’s role. In particular, by providing a guaranteed price only for butter and skimmed milk powder, the EEC subverted the board’s longstanding policy of diversification. Ignoring McGough’s protests, the Irish creameries took the immediate profits available, and by 1976 seventy‐five per cent of Ireland’s exportable milk was going into butter. The EEC had been expected to eliminate Australia and New Zealand from the UK dairy market, but the UK secured special trading rights for New Zealand; combined with a fall in butter consumption in the UK, this made the 1970s a challenging period for Kerrygold sales. The UK’s forbearance towards New Zealand and refusal to countenance EEC levies on dairy substitutes frustrated McGough, who condemned what he saw as the excessively consumerist orientation of British food policy. In one of his last public pronouncements as managing director of Bord Bainne, he criticized the UK for negotiating in bad faith in EEC talks, and urged the Irish government to adopt a similarly ruthless attitude to negotiations.

EEC membership also precluded McGough from compelling cooperatives to export through Bord Bainne. More fundamentally, the sense of urgency and unity instilled into the industry by the adverse trading climate of the 1960s dissipated once Ireland joined a large and lavishly protected agricultural market. The larger cooperatives increasingly sought to export independently when prices were high and only relied on Bord Bainne when they believed they could do no better. McGough threatened to expel wayward cooperatives from the Bord Bainne fold but settled for preserving the appearance of central marketing. It was also reported that he was obliged to grant the most powerful cooperatives a larger share of Bord Bainne’s profits.

During the mid 1970s McGough harboured ambitions to establish a central marketing organization for all Irish food exports. His appointment in July 1974 as chairman of the Pigs and Bacon Commission (which essentially performed the same role as Bord Bainne for pig and bacon exports) was seen as part of this process. In the event, his three‐year term of office was marred by his sanctioning in August 1975 of the purchase of the British firm Bearfield Stratfield, already the commission’s main British distributor, which he hoped to use as a vehicle for distributing bacon under a national brand. But by summer 1976 it was clear that this attempt to recreate the success of Adams Foods had miscarried disastrously. When McGough failed to persuade the pig farmers and processors to provide necessary further capital for Bearfield Stratfield, which had recorded substantial losses, the company had to be wound up. Furthermore, in 1977, Adams Foods experienced temporary difficulties after a failed expansion into frozen foods. These setbacks encouraged a reaction against McGough’s empire‐building within Irish political and agri‐business circles.

During 1976–7 the government considered reducing or even ending its underwriting of Bord Bainne’s borrowings which were reaching alarming proportions arising from the breakneck growth of the dairy industry from 1973. The industry’s growing stock requirements and seasonality – the overwhelming majority of milk produced was sent to the dairies in the summer – obliged Bord Bainne to become one of the larger borrowers on the London money markets from the late 1960s and to cope with increasingly troublesome cash flow and interest charge conundrums, which the introduction of a capital levy in 1977 was but a first step towards resolving. In 1977, peak seasonal borrowings were £131 million. Despite these difficulties, McGough maintained a good reputation, benefiting by association from the subsidy‐fuelled increase in dairy farming incomes and in milk output that occurred after 1973. This was borne out by his appointment in 1976 to head a commission established by the International Dairy Federation to examine the marketing of milk and dairy produce, and by the decision of Business and Finance magazine to make him their Irish business executive of the year for 1976.

Final years Aware that challenging times beckoned, he left Bord Bainne in February 1978 to resume his practice as a barrister. Thereafter he divided his work time between the bar – he became a senior counsel in 1982 – and his rapidly accumulating company directorships; by 1984 he was a director of eighteen companies (ten as chairman) involving him in a diverse range of business sectors. Throughout his career he showed his public spiritedness in membership of many societies, charities and commerce‐ or export‐related bodies, and he was able to devote more time to these after leaving Bord Bainne. In 1978 he was appointed chairman of the newly established Co‐operation North which had been founded to improve relations between the Republic and Northern Ireland, a priority for McGough ever since the unionist community in Northern Ireland had effectively boycotted Kerrygold products (for being so identifiable with the Republic) following the outbreak of the Troubles in 1969. He was appointed chairman of Gorta in 1979 and of the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) in 1981. Under his direction the ASA drew up the first code of practice for the Irish advertising industry. He was also a director of the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin and chairman of the Salvation Army Advisory Board. In 1987 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Ulster. Easing into a new role as the avuncular elder statesman of the Irish business scene, he appeared frequently on RTÉ television and radio throughout the 1980s, reminiscing (often humorously) about his business and army experiences. Effortlessly debonair, always immaculately attired and deeply cultured, McGough enjoyed literature, theatre and ballet, serving as president of the Irish ballet society in his army days. He died in Dublin on 8 November 2003 and was buried at Kilmashogue cemetery on 11 November. In the 1970s he wrote a draft autobiography, which was not published.

In his belief in close cooperation between the state and certain economically significant corporations and in his belief that these quasi‐state corporations were obliged to consider not just the profit motive but also the impact of their actions on society, McGough was of his time. Such paternalism could engender a sense of impunity and collusion between vested interests that ill served the interests of the consumer and taxpayer. Similarly his demanding clients in rural Ireland often contended that he and Bord Bainne favoured the big farmer over the small. These complaints failed to take account of Bord Bainne’s important, politically necessary but largely unacknowledged role in mitigating and retarding – in the interests of social stability – the inevitable dissolution of Ireland’s small‐farming social structure. As the dynamic figurehead of Ireland’s burgeoning agri‐welfare complex McGough played a pivotal role in the management of this fraught transition.

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Born: 04 April 1920, Northbrook Terrace, North Strand, Dublin City
Entered: 14 September 1938, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 10 February 1940

Father, James, was a chef in Collins’ Barracks, had been a cook in Gardiner Street community. Mother was Kathleen (Brennan)

Third of six boys with one sister.

Early education was nine years at St Joseph’s Christian Brothers school, Marino and then at O’Connells school.

Baptised at Church of St Laurence O’Toole, Seville Place, Dublin, 12/03/1920
Confirmed at St Vincent De Paul Catholic Church, Griffith Avenue, Drumcondra, Dublin, by Dr Byrne of Dublin, 18/03/1931