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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: 17 December 1948, Albany Road, Ranelagh, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 23 November 1966, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Died: 31 December 2024, St Vincent’s Hospital, Dublin (Rathfanham, Dublin)

Left Society of Jesus: 01 April 1967

Father, Kevin, was an Architect. Mother was Patricia (Moyne).

1 Younger Brother; 3 older and 1 younger Sisters

Educated at Gonzaga College SJ, Dublin

Baptised at St Andrew’s Church, Westland Row, Dublin, 23/12/1948
Confirmed at Church of the Holy Name, Beechwood Avenue, Dublin, by Dr Dunne of Dublin, 09/03/1960

Lived in Rathfarnham until his death in 2024

https://rip.ie/death-notice/peter-barry-dublin-rathfarnham-580017

The death has occurred of

Peter Barry
Rathfarnham, Dublin

Peter Barry (Rathfarnham, Co. Dublin), 31st December, 2024. Peacefully, in the wonderful care of the staff at St. Vincent's Private Hospital, surrounded by his loving family. Predeceased by his parents Maureen and Peter and his sister Paula. Peter will be sadly missed by his beloved wife Anne and cherished son Graham. Peter will be greatly missed by his sisters, brother, nieces, nephews, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, extended family and friends.

A celebration of Peter's life will take place on Saturday at 2pm (4th January) in Fanagans Funeral Home, Willbrook, Rathfarnham, D14W029, followed by Cremation in Mount Jerome.

Date Published:
Tuesday 31st December 2024

Date of Death:
Tuesday 31st December 2024

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/peter-barry-one-of-the-foremost-eye-surgeons-of-his-generation-1.2688815

Obituaries
Peter Barry: One of the foremost eye surgeons of his generation
Obituary: He used surgical skill, persuasiveness and humility to achieve the best possible clinical outcomes

Peter Barry FRCS, who has died unexpectedly after a brief illness aged 67 years, was one of the foremost eye surgeons of his generation. As well as being an international ambassador for Irish ophthalmology, he was the national clinical lead for ophthalmology, leading wide-reaching reforms in hospital and community delivery of eye healthcare.

He pioneered major surgical advances in Irish and European ophthalmology: modern cataract surgery and primary vitrectomy for retinal detachment repair in the early 1980s.

Having wide-ranging international impact, he was a cofounder and recently president of the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (ESCRS). In addition to superb surgical outcomes in his own patients, thousands more had safer cataract surgery when he chaired the first international clinical trial proving the benefit of prophylactic antibiotics. This landmark study has now been accepted worldwide as setting the clinical standard of care in dramatically reducing post-operative infection, the most devastating blinding complication of cataract surgery.

Peter James Barry was born in Dublin and educated at Gonzaga College. Being academic, gregarious and quietly religious, he briefly started Jesuit studies but quickly switched to UCD medical school. Clinical training in ophthalmology began at the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital, Dublin, with completion of the majority of his clinical residency at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London.

Absolute focus
Fellowship training followed in London and the US in vitreoretinal surgery, then in its infancy, but Moorfields quickly established itself as an international leader under Peter’s mentors, David McLeod, Peter Leaver and Robert Cooling. Appointed consultant ophthalmic surgeon in 1984 to his alma mater, the Eye and Ear Hospital, Dublin, he initiated vitreoretinal surgery and maintained a continuous separate retinal detachment rota.

He had a joint appointment with St Vincent’s University Hospital, where he quickly established a dedicated registrar cataract training module.

As ESCRS president, he established three themes: youth, education and research which reflected his lifetime clinical focus. He took an immense interest in fostering the careers of many future ophthalmologists. Combining the attributes of high clinical and surgical acumen, work ethic and attention to detail, his clinics and operating lists were both intense and occasionally dramatic. Mentoring by example, he expected the same absolute focus. Patient empathy was his main driving force and he used his surgical skill, persuasiveness and humility to achieve the best possible clinical outcomes.

Charismatic and debonair
Peter Barry’s Sunday routine began with a ward round at the Eye and Ear Hospital accompanied by his daughter Lisa, followed by ice cream and reading at Mass at St Vincent’s.

Charismatic and debonair, he was great company in social situations and an eloquent protagonist in formal meetings. He was just as happy delivering the Ridley Medal Lecture as sharing clinical woes with a colleague.

He was a devoted family man and he is survived by his wife Carmel and four adult children, David, Stephen, Simon and Lisa.

https://soevision.org/news/peter-barry/

Peter Barry
The SOE Board and Committees would like to extend their sincere sympathies to the family, friends and colleagues of Dr Peter Barry, FRCS, Head of the Department of Ophthalmology in St Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin, who died Thursday, 26 May 2016 after a short illness.

Dr Barry was the senior retinal surgeon at the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital, Dublin. Having completed his training at Moorfield’s Eye Hospital in London, UK, Dr Barry completed a retinal fellowship in the United States. Dr Barry was a founding member of the ESCRS and served as Treasurer, President, Director and guiding light at ESCRS. He was also an integral part The European Alliance for Vision Research and Ophthalmology.

He will be greatly missed by all who knew him.

https://www.escrs.org/eurotimes/peter-barry-1948-2016

PETER BARRY 1948-2016

David Spalton
Published: Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Peter’s sudden and tragic death was a shock for all of us. He was a particularly good friend to me and to many of you who are reading this.
Peter co-organised the European Intraocular Implant Club meeting in Dublin, Ireland in 1990. It was at this meeting that the decision was taken to change the name of the society to the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons, and from that time Peter served as a board member, treasurer, then as president, and finally
as a director.

Throughout all these years he was a steady guiding hand, the work of the society never far from his heart, and the formative role he had in the success of the ESCRS cannot be overstated. In my opinion this success was due to two strong personality attributes – the first being a superb ability to chair a committee meeting, and the second being a dogged determination to see something through to the end once he had started on it, strongly aided by some Irish charm and a puckish sense of humour.

Time and time again I would watch in admiration as, during a committee meeting, after a sometimes lengthy and rather stringent discussion, he would summarise the problem and come up with the common-sense solution that we had all missed, which we could all agree on, and then we would move on to the next item on the agenda.

Through his friendship with Ulf Stenevi and Mats Lundström, he led the way in developing the society’s studies in the prevention of postoperative endophthalmitis and benchmarking surgical outcomes with the
EUREQUO database.

His greatest memorial will be the endophthalmitis study which eventually turned out to be the biggest antibiotic study ever undertaken. He conceived the project, raised the finance and put together a dedicated and expert team, and then saw the project through the trials and tribulations of regulation, bureaucracy and recruitment until its
eventual success.

As we all know now, the intracameral injection of cefuroxime at the end of surgery reduces the incidence of infection five-fold. The study has become the standard of care in many countries and we, as surgeons, and more importantly our patients have good reason to be grateful to him. Few of us will ever leave such a legacy.

Peter was educated at Gonzaga College in Dublin. At one time he contemplated a career in the Church and few of us knew he retained a strong Christian faith throughout his life. However, he went into medicine instead, graduating from University College Dublin in 1974, where he won the Medical Society Gold Medal and also the Gibson Cup, the Irish Medical Schools Debating Cup (perhaps an early sign of later achievements).

He was a resident at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London from 1976 to 1979, followed by a retina fellowship at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA. After this he returned to a consultant appointment at the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital and St Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin.

His funeral took place on the most perfect Irish summer day at the church opposite St Vincent’s Hospital, with a congregation packed to standing room only with his family, his friends and colleagues, golfing chums, and I suspect a large number of grateful patients too. Lisa, his 20-year-old daughter, with great courage and fortitude, gave a eulogy none of those present will ever forget. It was an incredibly sad end to a life so well lived and we all extend our sympathy to his wife Carmel, and his children David, Stephen, Simon and Lisa.

Prof David Spalton is President of the ESCRS

https://www.vision-research.eu/index.php?id=1058

Professor Peter Barry passed away

It is with very great sadness that the EVI announces the death of our colleague Dr Peter Barry, who passed away on Thursday, 26 May 2016 after a short illness.

He was a person of great vision who made an immense contribution not only to the success of the ESCRS but to the wider world of ophthalmology, as indicated by our featured article under http://www.vision-research.eu/index.php?id=888 in remembrance of Peter

Peter Barry was head of the Department of Ophthalmology in St Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin and was the senior retinal surgeon at the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital, Dublin. Having completed his training at Moorfield's Eye Hospital in London, one of the largest eye hospitals in the world, Peter completed a retinal fellowship in the USA.

Peter has served on the Board of the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons for over twenty years first - as Treasurer and as President of this prestigious Society. He was a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, the Irish College of Ophthalmology, the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons, and the United Kingdom and Ireland Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons.

Peter will be sorely missed.

Born: 02 July 1912, Charleville Road, Phibsborough, Dublin
Entered: 03 September 1930, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 13 November 1931

Father was a civil servant.

Two younger sisters.

In 1921 he went to Belvedere College SJ.

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: 01 June 1934, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 07 September 1960, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Ordained: 1972, Keffi, Nasarawa State, Nigeria (as an SMA)
Died: 27 March 2010, London England

Left Society of Jesus: 21 August 1961

Originally C of I - Baptised Catholic 1957 - Father (Augustus) a C of I clergyman, so moved around Dublin regularly to live, (Lower Kimmage Road, Terenure; Finglas Rectory; Kill Glebe, Blackrock and then Rathmichael Rectory, Shankhill)but lived for a while also at Glenealy, County Wicklow. He also lived at Stamer Street, Portobello, Dublin.

Had a BA from Trinity College Dublin

2 Sisters. At time of entry parents were separated. Mother was living then at Leinster Road, Rathmines.

Baptised at Harold’s Cross Protestant Church, then in Catholic Church at University Church, St Stephen’s Green 08/12/1957. Confirmed at Clonliffe, January 1958

Had been a Deacon in the Church of Scotland. Taught at St Conleth’s, Dublin for three years

Educated at Avoca School, Blackrock (Newpark Comprehensive, Newtownpark Ave). Had a BA from Trinity College Dublin

Went to Divinity School at Mountjoy Square, Dublin. Lived at Morehampton Road, Dublin and then at Merton Drive, Ranelagh, and then in a flat with his sister at Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin.

Joined Society of African Missions (SMA)

https://sma.ie/fr-douglas-bluett-sma/

Fr Douglas H Bluett SMA dies in London

The SMA British Province has lost its senior missionary with the death of Fr Douglas (Dougie) Bluett in a London hospital on Monday, 27 March 2010.

In recent years he had suffered from cancer though never allowed it to dim his missionary calling. He continually requested a return to front line service in Africa though his illness meant that his wish could not be granted.

Fr Bluett, born in Dublin in 1934 was raised in the Church of Ireland before converting to Catholicism and becoming a Catholic priest.

He was ordained in Keffi, diocese of Makurdi, by Archbishop Peter Y Jatau of Kaduna, Nigeria in 1972. For 36 years Fr Bluett ministered in several parishes in the diocese of Makurdi, most notably Doma. He was a renowned teacher and for many years taught at St Thomas Aquinas Major Seminary in Makurdi. He had the great joy of seeing part the area where he worked made into a separate diocese, Lafia.

Fr Bluett is mourned by his sister, extended family, friends and his confreres in the British Province as well as in the wider Society.

Fr Rob Morland informs us that, in accordance with his wishes Fr Dougie will be buried alongside other SMA colleagues Manchester.

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: 06 June 1927, Donnybrook, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 07 September 1945, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Died: 24 April 2016, Clonskeagh, Dublin, County Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 18 December 1945

Son of Joseph Brennan and Margerita Ryan. Father was manager of a number of insurance and finance companies. Family lived from 1942 at Bartra, Dalkey, County Dublin

9th in a family of 12 with 8 Brothers and 2 Sisters

Educated at Belvedere College SJ, Dublin

Baptised at Sacred Heart Church, Donnybrook, Dublin, 10/06/1927
Confirmed at Sacred Heart Church, Donnybrook, Dublin, by Dr Wall of Dublin, 07/04/1938

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Gabriel (Gay) BRENNAN
Brennan (Clonskeagh, Dublin) – April, 24 2016, Gabriel (Gay), peacefully in the presence of his family, pre-deceased by his wife Éilis (MacCarvill), beloved father of the late Deirdre; deeply regretted by his children Niamh, Orla, Maeve, Diarmuid and Feilim, brothers Fr Joe SJ, Anraí Ó Braonáin, sister Denise, brothers-in-law Diarmuid and Niall, sisters-in-law Ann, Dimphne, Donla and Máire. Sadly missed by his grandchildren Sarah, Hugh, Ross, John, Sarah and Grace, sons-in-law Michael and Jupp, nieces, nephews and his many friends.

Born: 02 April 1915, Convent Road, Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin
Entered: 07 September 1953, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 05 October 1953

Brother Novice

Parents were John (Deceased at the time of entry) amd Ann (O’Toole).

John lived and worked in England (1945/6 and 1948/9) living at Cranmer Road, Brixton, London, England

8 Sisters

Born: 26 March 1918, Nelson Street, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 14 September 1941, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 31 March 1943

Brother Novice

Parents were Thomas and Elizabeth (Murphy)

3 Brothers, 3 Sisters

Family lived at Hardwicke Street, Dublin.

Educated at St Agatha’s Parish School, North William Street, Dublin and at St Canice’s CBS, North Circular Road, Dublin

Worked as a Brassmoulder. Worked as messenger for Ms H Nestor, Exchequer Street, Dublin (1933-1935); as Brassmoulder at Great Southern Railway, Inchicore, Dublin (1935-1941)

Confirmed at St Agatha’s, North William Street, Dublin, by Dr Byrne of Dublin, 11/04/1929

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: 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: 01 November 1954, Cabra, Dublin, County Dublin
Entered: 29 August 1873, Milltown Park, Dublin
Died: 1875, Cabra, Dublin, County Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 1875
Short bio on file and no other papers. He developed some kind of hip disease and went home for a change of air and nursing care. He died at home and is buried in family vault. Fr Edward Kelly SJ attests that he was “Vovit Moriens” - Vows in articulo mortis, but there is no evidence other than his statement.

Educated at Belvedere College SJ

LEFT due to ill health resulting in death;

Younger brother of Vincent Byrne - RIP 1943

Born: 20 May 1860, Dublin
Entered: 14 August 1878, Milltown Park, Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 18 June 1880

Born: 09 February 1945, Gilford Park, Sandymount, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 07 September 1962, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Died: 13 May 2015, Royal Hospital, London, England (London)

Left Society of Jesus: 28 May 1964

Father (Richard) was an Army Officer at Beggar’s Bush Barracks, Dublin. Mother was Margaret (McGuinness). Famiily lived at Beggar’s Bush, Ballsbridge, Dublin

Youngest of three boys and one girl.

Early education at a Convent school in Dublin and then he went to Belvedere College SJ for five years and finally to Clongowes Wood College SJ for five years.

Baptised at Catholic University Church, St Stephen’s Green, Dublin, 15/02/1945
Confrimed at St Mary’s Pro-Catherdral, Marlborough Street, Dublin, 01/03/1955

Film Director; Co-founder of Focus Theatre

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/co-founder-of-focus-theatre-who-became-tv-producer-in-uk-1.2247794

Co-founder of Focus Theatre who became TV producer in UK

Richard Callanan: February 9th, 1945 - May 13th, 2015

Richard Callanan, who has died aged 70, was a founder member, with others including Deirdre O'Connell, Tom Hickey, Sabina Higgins (née Coyne) and Mary Elizabeth Burke-Kennedy, of Dublin's famous Focus Theatre, which flourished from 1963 to 2012.

He later made a successful career as a BBC television producer, winning two Bafta awards for children’s programmes in the 1990s.

He also made significant contributions to further education with the Open University (OU) and, after retirement, with the University of the Third Age (U3A).

Callanan had joined the BBC in 1969 to work with the newly established OU. One of his fellow trainee producers at the time was Nuala O’Faolain.

His interest in drama first surfaced at school, at Belvedere and Clongowes, and he was later an active member of Dramsoc at UCD, where he studied English and history from 1965 to 1968.

Among his roles was Antony, opposite Mary Elizabeth Burke-Kennedy's Cleopatra and the title role in John Osborne's Luther.

He was part of the production team for the Focus Theatre's first show, Kelly's Eye by Henry Livings. It was at the Focus too that he began what was to become a lifelong friendship with the actor Sabina Coyne, now Sabina Higgins, wife of President Michael D Higgins.

At UCD, Callanan was also a leading member of the Literary and Historical Society, appearing in the first Irish televised student debate with Patrick Cosgrave, later an adviser to Margaret Thatcher, and John Cooke, who became a High Court judge.

Jesuit training

Callanan had spent two years, after leaving Clongowes, as a seminarian at the Jesuit novitiate at Emo House in Laois, a stage of his life that was terminated, according to his brother Fionnbar, “by mutual consent”.

An Open University colleague, Nick Levinson, remarked at Callanan’s funeral service that his old friend retained the ability to be self-critical, which he speculated might have been a hangover from his Jesuit training, which helped him to “see both sides, and face both ways” when pondering a course of action.

One of Callanan’s special gifts, Levinson said, was casting actors. Among those he recruited were Patrick Stewart, Leo McKern and Ben Kingsley, all of them at a relatively early stage of their careers.

Callanan eventually left the Open University to work for the BBC, especially in children’s television.

In retirement, Callanan returned to further education with the University of the Third Age, where, his colleague Patricia Isaacs said, “he led a group on modern literature, sharing his great love of Irish poets in particular with members”.

Richard Callanan was born in Dublin in 1945, the youngest of five children of Richard Callanan, one of the first recruits to the Army of the Free State, who rose to the rank of major-general, and Margaret McGuinness from Longford, both of whom had been active in the War of Independence, and later, in the Civil War on the pro-Treaty side.

He is survived by his widow, Sally Burr, by his children, Sam, Megan and Joe, his brother Fionnbar and his sister Mona. A sister, Eithne, and a brother, Niall, predeceased him.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/aug/27/richard-callanan-obituary

My friend Richard Callanan, who has died aged 70 after a fall, made important contributions to two great educational endeavours: making TV programmes for the Open University and co-ordinating groups for the University of the Third Age (U3A).

He was a maker of arts programmes for the Open University between 1969 and 1979; and among those he recruited to appear in OU productions were Patrick Stewart and Ben Kingsley. Richard was largely responsible for the famous appearance of Max Wall as Vladimir opposite Leo McKern as Estragon in Waiting for Godot in 1977. He went on to become well known too as a producer and director of children’s programmes: in 1990 he won a Bafta as producer of the BBC series Maid Marian and Her Merry Men; and in 1993 a second for Archer’s Goon.

Richard was born in Dublin, the youngest of five children of Richard Callanan, an Irish army officer, and his wife, Margaret (nee McGuiness). He was educated at Jesuit schools and spent two years training to be a priest at Emo House, in County Laois, before the arrangement was terminated by mutual consent. From 1964 until 1967 he studied English and history at University College Dublin – during which time he became a founder member of the city’s Focus theatre – before moving to London to study for a diploma in modern social and cultural studies at Chelsea College.

Richard’s Jesuit education provoked some stark recollections of the pedagogic arts from him. It also, though, helped him to “see both sides and face both ways”. He never forgot the importance of drawing out his students and he was a supremely attentive listener. This attracted him to what the U3A, in north London, had to offer.

U3A’s guiding principle - “those who learn shall also teach and those who teach shall also learn” – was natural to him and his work on James Joyce, WB Yeats and Seamus Heaney was revelatory. He also taught a Shakespeare course to students in a residential home for the elderly, Mary Feilding Guild, who were not able to make even the shortest journey to reach normal classes. Prognostications of failure because of the age of the students were triumphantly repudiated.

He is survived by his wife, Sally, and his children, Sam, Meg and Joe.

Born: 13 April 1932, Brighton Road, Terenure, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 07 September 1950, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Died: 25 June 2010, St Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 1950

Father was Valentine and Mother was Hannah (O’Sullivan). Father was deceased at the time of entry and mother remarried George E Brady, a publican and businessman. Family lived at Leicester Avenue, Rathgar, Dublin and Cornelscourt House, Bray Road, Foxrock, Dublin.

2 Brothers, 2 Step-brothers, 2 Step-sisters.

Oldest brother of Francis Carney - LEFT 1950 and John A Carney - LEFT 1953

Educated at CBS Synge Street and Clongowes Wood College SJ

https://notices.irishtimes.com/death/carney-valentine-valentine-val/4259446

CARNEY Valentine (Val) - June 25, 2010 (peacefully) in St. Vincent's University Hospital; will be greatly missed by his devoted wife Margaret, sons Jack, Michael, and Bobby, brothers and sisters, Frank, John, Pauline (O'Grady), Mary (Murnaghan), Owen and George (Brady), daughters-in-law, André, Michelle and Colette, his beloved grandchildren, Vanessa, Emily, David, Claire, James, Hannah and Maeve, his brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, nephews and nieces, relatives and a wide circle of family and friends. May he rest in peace. Funeral today (Monday) after 11.o'c Mass in the Church of St. Thérèse, Mount Merrion, to Kilmashogue Cemetery. House private. Family flowers only please. Donations if desired to St. Vincent's University Hospital.

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The death has occurred of

Valentine (Val) CARNEY
Dublin
At St. Vincent's University Hospital. Removal today, Saturday, from St. Vincents Hospital Mortuary Chapel to the Church of St. Thérèse, Mount Merrion, arriving at 4pm. Funeral on Monday after 11am Mass to Kilmashogue Cemetery. House private. Family flowers only, please. Donations, if desired, to St. Vincent's University Hospital.
Date Published:

Saturday 26th June 2010

Date of Death:
Friday 25th June 2010

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: 15 October 1844, Killaloe, County Clare
Entered: 14 November 1864, Milltown Park, Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 1867

Educated at Sacred Heart College, Crescent, Limerick; Summerhill College; Irish College, Paris

by 1866 at Palensis (TOLO) Novice, health

1864-1865: Milltown Park, Dublin, Novitiate
1865-1866: Palencia, Spain (TOLO), Novitiate (for health reasons)

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - From delicate health, was compelled to leave after three and a half years. He was not allowed take First Vows.

Born: 27 March 1832, County Westmeath
Entered: 01 April 1875, Milltown Park, Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 23 April 1878

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - LEFT at his own request with approval of Provincial.

Born: 17 March 1848, Leitrim, County Galway
Entered: 15 April 1990, Milltown Park, Dublin
Ordained: pre entry

Left Society of Jesus: 1881

Education at St Brendan’s Seminary, Loughrea and St Patrick’s College, Maynooth

Born: 23 May 1917, Bridge House, Youghal, County Cork
Entered: 12 November 1940, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 07 March 1941

Father, Charles, worked for Cork and Waterford County Councils, specifically managing the bridge near Youghal. Mother was Johanna (Hogan). He lived at Beechwood Avenue, Ranelagh, Dublin from age 18.

Third of four boys with two sisters.

Early education for seven years at a National School near Youghal, he then went to the Christian Brothers Secondary School in Youghal (1930-1935). After school he got a post as a clerical officer in the Civil Service.

Baptised at The Church of Our Lady of Good Counsel, Clashmore, County Waterford, 27/05/1917
Confirmed at The Church of Our Lady of Good Counsel, Clashmore, County Waterford, by Dr Hackett of Waterford and Lismore, 11/06/1930

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: 20 January 1650, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 23 December 1671, Avignon, France - Lugdunensis Province (LUGD)

Left Society of Jesus: 1672

◆ MacErlean Cat Miss HIB SJ 1670-1770
1672 LUGD Cat
Novitiate Avignon
“Franciscus Creuse”
Born 20/01/1650 Dublin
Entered 23/12/1671

◆ Francis Finegan SJ Biographical Dictionary 1598-1773
He was born in Dublin, January 20, 1650, and entered the Novitiate of Avignon, December 23, 1671.

Born: 11 December 1847, Rushwee, Slane, County Meath
Entered: 02 November 1874, Milltown Park, Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 1875

Educated at St Finian’s Seminary, Mullingar

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - LEFT before end of 1st year Novitiate

Born: Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 1584, Verdun, France - Aquitaniae Province (AQUIT)

Left Society of Jesus: 1585

Accepted into Society at Bordeaux, France

◆ CATSJ A-H has Ent March 1584 at Verdun (CAMP) as Scholastic Novice

Born: 05 September 1852, County Kildare
Entered: 14 August 1877, Milltown Park, Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 24 September 1878

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - LEFT after 1st year. Became Butler in Belvedere House

Born: 23 February 1858, County Kerry
Entered: 07 September 1883, Milltown Park, Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: October 1883

Priest Novice

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Left after a month in Noviceship

Born: 30 April 1922, Langrishe Place, Summerhill, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 14 September 1940, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 16 October 1941

Parents, Patrick and Kathleen (Litchfield) ran a businesse in Summerhill, Dublin.

Second of five boys with three sisters.

Educated at O’Connells School Dublin

Baptised at St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral, Marlborough Street, Dublin, 01/05/1922
Confirmed at St Agatha’s Church, North william Street, Dublin, by Dr Wall of Dublin, 21/03/1933

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: 04 October 1924, Park View, Wellington Road, Cork City, County Cork
Entered: 05 October 1943, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 15 December 1943

Born in Dublin at Baggot St, Dublin - George Francis Alexander Daly

Parents were Charles who was deceased at the time of entry was a butter exporter and Anita (McCarthy) who was living on private means. Family lived for a time at Sidney Park, Bellevue, Cork City at Inniscarrig, Western Road, Cork City, County Cork

1 Brother and 1 Sister

Educated at Chriistian Brothers College, Blackrock

Baptised at St Andrew’s Church, Westland Row, Dublin, 09/10/1924
Confirmed at St Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, Lower Glanmire Road, Cork City, County Cork, by Dr Colahan of Cork, 18/05/1937

Born: 26 May 1913, Essex, England
Entered: 14 September 1931, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 22 December 1931

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - O’Connell’s Schools student

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: 11 June 1918, Whitworth Place, Drumcondra, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 27 February 1945, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 03 June 1945

Brother Novice

Born in the Coombe Hospital, Dublin

Father was William, deceased in 1918, and Mother was Elizabeth (Curtis).

2 Brothers and one sister.

Educated at Belvedere College SJ Junior School 1929-1930.

Baptised at St Agatha’s Church, North William Street, Dublin, 25/06/1918
Confirmed at St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral, Marlborough Street, Dublin, by Dr Byrne of Dublin, 05/03/1929

Was a sorter (temporary) in the Post Office i 1939. He then joined the Defence Forces, stationed at Athlone, Mullingar and Dublin. Discharged as medically unfit 01/09/1943. He was then working for GSR in the Goods Department as a temporary porter at Kingsbridge Station until February 1944. He then went to work on the staff at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin

Subsequently lived at Ovoca Road, South Circular Road, Dublin - https://catalogue.nli.ie/Collection/vtls000786382/HierarchyTree?recordID=vtls000786382

Born: 07 February 1861, Ballyscullion, Maghera, County Derry
Entered: 23 January 1880, Milltown Park, Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 1880

Educated at the Marist College, Dundalk

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

Born: 05 December 1913, Clanbrassil Street, South Circular Road, Dublin
Entered: 03 September 1930, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 19 May 1931

Father worked at the GPO.

Youngest of a family of two boys and two girls.

Early education was three years at a local National School, and then he went to Synge Street (1920-1930).

Born: 26 December 1915, Montrose, Ailesbury Park, Ballsbridge, Dublin, County Dublin
Entered: 07 September 1937, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Ordained: 03 June 1944, St John’s Seminary, Wonersh (Southwark Diocese)
Died: 25 June 2003, London, England

Left Society of Jesus: 31 December 1937

Father (JF Davys) was a Bank Manager who died in 1929. Mother was then supported by private means.

One sister.

Early Education at a Convent school he then went to St Gerard’s Bray in 1925. In 1930 he went to Belvedere College SJ for two years. He then went to Rosse College, Camden Street, Dublin to prepare for a Bank examination and then went to work for the Royal Bank of Ireland, Grafton Street, Dublin in January 1933. He studied at the Institute of Bankers, North Wall Quay, North Wall, Dublin

https://www.richmondandtwickenhamtimes.co.uk/news/389521.a-kind-and-holy-priest/

A kind and holy priest

4th July 2003

A CLERGYMAN with strong connections to Richmond, Ham and Mortlake has died.

Canon Francis Davys, one of four children, including an elder sister and two younger brothers, was born on December 26th, 1915, in Dublin.

Known as Frank, he was educated at St Gerard’s Bray and Belvedere College, Dublin. On leaving school, he joined the Royal Bank of Ireland and felt himself called to become a Jesuit novice at Emo Park, Offaly.

He then transferred to Southwark Diocese and completed his studies at St John’s Seminary, Wonersh, where he was ordained priest on June 3rd, 1944.

His first appointment was to a church in Blackheath. After three years, he was appointed a notary to the Marriage Tribunal. In 1948 he took up the position of assistant secretary to the Southwark Rescue Society, where he worked for five years. In June 1953, he became assistant priest at a Reigate church for two years, after which he went to one in Worthing.

His next appointment, again as an assistant priest, was to a church in Cobham in 1958.

He arrived in Richmond in April 1961 when appointed to St Elizabeth’s Church, where he remained for 24 years.

The parish was divided in 1985 and Canon Davys was made the first parish priest of St Thomas Aquinas, Ham, and made arrangements for its consecration.

He continued to serve as Catholic chaplain at the Royal Star and Garter Home, completing 31 years of service there.

After seven years at Ham, he retired to Wimbledon Common before moving to St Mary’s Convent, Worthing, and finally to St George’s Retreat, Burgess Hill.

He was made an honorary canon in 1967 and served the diocese on the Schools Commission as well as being chairman of governors at Christ’s School, Richmond, and St Elizabeth’s Primary School, Richmond. During this time the school moved to new premises in Queen’s Road. He was Dean of Mortlake from 1978 to 1991.

Canon Davys had been ill for some time and suffered a heart attack on the afternoon of June 25th. He died peacefully at home at 11pm aged 88.

Friends say he was a “private man by temperament, a kind, courteous and holy priest with a sense of humour and ever sensitive to the needs of others”.

His Requiem Mass will be held at St Elizabeth’s Church in the Vineyard on Wednesday, July 9th, at noon.

Born: 06 January 1921, Armstrong Street, Harold’s Cross, Dublin
Entered: 10 January 1942, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: June 1942

Brother Novice

Educated at Coláiste Mhuire, Parnell Square, Dublin and Synge Street CBS to 3rd year Secondary. He wanted to enter as a scholastic and was recommended to St Kevin’s College OMI, Enniskerry, County Wickow (Oblate House of Studies for late vocations) by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ, in order to get his Latin studies done. He bgean in September 1941, but did not stick with it.

Employed by W&R Jacobs, Peter’s Row, Dublin as a machine worker 1938-1941

Baptised at Church of Mary Immaculate Refuge of Sinners, Rathmines Road, Rathmines, Dublin, 09/01/1921
Confirmed at St Kevin’s Church, Harrington Street, Dublin, 01/03/1932

After he left he joined the army and was stationed at McKee Barracks, Blackhorse Avenue, Dublin. He then applied to the Order of St Camillus at Killucan, County Westmeath in 1944.

Born: 03 April 1842, Leighlinbridge, County Carlow
Entered: 25 February 1868, Milltown Park, Dublin
Ordained: pre entry

Left Society of Jesus: 01 May 1869 for health reasons

Priest Novice

Educated at Carlow College and St Patrick’s College, Maynooth

Hogan Entries (852) LEFT (joined as priest, left due to health.)

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - LEFT Noviceship in May 1869. Found the regular life unsuited to his character and health not good.

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: 17 June 1911, Dublin
Entered: 23 September 1932, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 06 March 1933

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Messenger Boy before Entry; Brother Novice; LEFT 06 March 1933, No Vocation

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: 27 February 1859, County Kerry
Entered: 23 September 1883, Milltown Park, Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: April 1885

1883-1884: Milltown Park, Dublin, Novitiate
1884-1885: Loyola House, Dromore, County Down, Novitiate

Born: 19 September 1916, Glengarriff Parade, North Circular Road, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 07 September1935, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 07 May 1936

Father was Senior Clerk at the Rates Department of Dublin County Council.

Fourth of seven boys with three sisters.

Early education at a local National School and then at O’Connells School

Born: 28 January 1929, St Mary’s, Cowper Road, Rathmines, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 08 October 1946, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Died: 02 June 2019, Blackrock, Dublin City, County Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 20 February 1948

Parents were John and Mary (Meagher). Father was an Accountant and deceased at the time of entry. Mother was a Director of McBirney’s Department Store, Aston Quay, Dublin.

2 Brothers and 2 Sisters.

Educated at Belvedere College SJ, Dublin.

Baptised at Church of the Three Patrons, Rathgar Road, Dublin, 01/02/1929
Confirmed at St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral, Marlkborough Street, Dublin,, by Dr Wall of Dublin, 31/01/1940

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/john-donnelly-obituary-one-of-ireland-s-foremost-insolvency-experts-1.3925143#:~:text=Donnelly%2C%20one%20of%20Ireland's%20foremost,in%20a%20practice%20co%2Dfounded

Heroism, eclectic diversity of interests, deep spirituality and chartered accountancy are not usually found in each other’s company, but in the one-of-a-kind life of John Donnelly, who has died aged 90, they certainly were.

Donnelly, one of Ireland's foremost insolvency experts and the leading receiver of troubled companies from the late 1960s onwards, was, successively, a teenage soldier in the British army's D-Day landings on Sword beach on the Normandy coast, a Jesuit seminarian for two years, an articled clerk in a practice co-founded by his own father, the principal of that practice from his qualification in 1954 as a fellow (as it then was) of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and then, finally, one of the founding partners of what has become, after many mergers, the Irish operation of the major firm Deloitte.

Business was in Donnelly’s blood. His father, Jack, was a chartered accountant with the famous Dublin firm Craig Gardner. He had left with John Gardner, a son of one of the founders of the practice, to form Gardner Donnelly, but died young when John was still a child, leaving his mother, May (nee Mehigan), to bring him and his five siblings up on her own. Fortunately, however, she was also in business, and prominently, as chairwoman of the legendary department store McBirney’s. The family continued to live in comfortable circumstances in Temple Gardens, Rathmines.

Educated at Belvedere College, he demonstrated early an independent streak which was also to last him to the end, by running away in his 16th year to join the British army in 1944. He found himself within a few months, having lied about his age, in France. He was shot in the neck by a sniper, recovered and returned to his unit.

Father’s practice Donnelly lost many friends as a young soldier, and this affected him very deeply. It was perhaps this experience that led him to spend two years in training for ordination as a Jesuit on his return to Dublin, and, later, perhaps influenced also a short-lived dalliance as a medical student. In time, he settled down in his late father’s practice, which he bought out two years before qualifying himself.

He developed a speciality as an insolvency practitioner widely regarded in the business world as second to none. As his former colleague in Deloitte, retired partner David Deasy, put it to The Irish Times this week: "During the late 1960s, and from then until [Donnelly's retirement in] the 1990s, he was the go-to person for banks for particularly challenging and difficult receiverships."

Among the most prominent of these were Ranks Ireland; Cork brewers James J Murphy's; Van Hool McArdle, motor body builders in Dundalk; Janelle, a large textile group in Finglas, Dublin, in the early 1980s; Dr Austin Darragh's Institute of Clinical Pharmacology in the late 1980s and early 1990s; and UMP Meats of Ballyhaunis in the same period.

Donnelly made a point of attempting to rescue jobs, if he could, from unpromising situations, and it gave him particular pleasure, for example, to be able to sell on Murphy’s to Heineken, a deal that has preserved jobs in Cork for the past generation. UMP Meats was eventually bought by Glanbia, and today Dawn Meats still operates the plant.

The work was sometimes dangerous. In the case of Ranks Ireland, a number of the firm’s workers staged a sit-in at the plant, and subversive elements, quite separately from the workers and without their consent, took advantage of this as a publicity stunt to threaten Donnelly and his family, resulting in an armed Garda presence having to be provided at the family home for years subsequently. His former colleague, Billy O’Riordan, told The Irish Times that when Donnelly had to make people redundant, “he always treated them with the utmost respect and consideration”.

To work for, Donnelly was a demanding taskmaster. David Carson, another colleague at Deloitte and still a partner with the practice, recalled this week that "John was a tough individual to work for, but fair. He stood up for you." But first you had to prove that you knew your stuff. "He very much challenged you. He'd test you and you very much had to pass that test." For scheduled meetings, colleagues needed to be prepared thoroughly. Carson remarking that "you needed to be very, very well prepared, you needed to know what the objective was; he didn't appreciate you not being well-briefed."

Eugene McCague, a solicitor formerly of Arthur Cox and Partners, who worked on many projects with Donnelly, said this week this directness extended to Donnelly’s dealings with lawyers. “He had a hatred of imprecise language. He was a stickler for precision . . . I learned a lot from him.”

Toughness in negotiations was another characteristic McCague recalled also when Donnelly handled the closing down of Dublin Port’s stevedoring subsidiary Dublin Cargo Handlers in 1992, “there were long, tough negotiations with the trade unions, but he did a deal with generous redundancy payments.”

Outside business, Donnelly had an extensive record as a volunteer with a range of charitable and not-for-profit causes, especially at the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital in Dublin (where he chaired a finance committee, which raised £1.5 million) and Co-Operation North (now Co-Operation Ireland), the boards of both of which he chaired. He also served for 20 years as honorary consul of Finland in Ireland.

John Donnelly is survived by his widow, Aoibheann (nee MacEllin), his daughters Grace, Caoimhe and Deirdre, son JP, and also by sisters, Ethel and Philomena, and his brother, Gerard. He was predeceased by brothers Michael and Daniel

https://rip.ie/death-notice/john-donnelly-dublin-blackrock-374303

The death has occurred of

John DONNELLY
Blackrock, Dublin

(1929 – 2019), former Senior Partner of Deloitte in Dublin, peacefully on the morning of June 2nd 2019; beloved husband of Aoibheann (nee MacEllin) for 57 years and loving father to Grace, Caoimhe, Deirdre and JP. Sadly missed by his sons-in-law Fintan O’Gorman, Andrew Lowe and Aillil O’Reilly, his brother Gerard and brother-in-law Peter Dunn. Predeceased by his sisters Ethel and Phil, and brothers Daniel and Michael. Cherished by his fourteen grandchildren Jack, Katie and Harry Donnelly; Christopher, Eleanor, and Louisa O’Gorman; Jonathan, Alec, Cormac and Jake Lowe; Ailbhe, Honor, Lauren and James O’Reilly.

Date Published:
Tuesday 4th June 2019

Date of Death:
Sunday 2nd June 2019

https://notices.irishtimes.com/death/donnelly-john/55337869

DONNELLY, John: Death

DONNELLY, John (Blackrock, Dublin, 1929 – 2019), former Senior Partner of Deloitte in Dublin, peacefully on the morning of June 2, 2019; beloved husband of Aoibheann (nee MacEllin) for 57 years and loving father to Grace, Caoimhe, Deirdre and JP. Sadly missed by his sons-in-law Fintan O’Gorman, Andrew Lowe and Aillil O’Reilly, his brother Gerard and brother-in-law Peter Dunn. Pre-deceased by his sisters Ethel and Phil, and brothers Daniel and Michael. Cherished by his fourteen grandchildren Jack, Katie and Harry Donnelly; Christopher, Eleanor, and Louisa O’Gorman; Jonathan, Alec, Cormac and Jake Lowe; Ailbhe, Honor, Lauren and James O’Reilly. Reposing at home tomorrow (Thursday) from 5.30pm to 7.30pm. Funeral Mass on Friday (June 7) at 10.00 am in Church of the Assumption, Booterstown Avenue, followed by burial in Shanganagh Cemetery. Family flowers only please.

Born: 10 December 1919, Langrishe Place, Summerhill, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 05 August 1942, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Died: 19 April 2002, Dublin City

Left Society of Jesus: 27 July 1943

Parents were Hubert, a fitter, and Margaret (O’Reilly)

2 Brothers, 4 Sisters

Educated at Model School, Marlborough Street, Dublin. Worked at Raleigh Bicycle Company, Hanover Quay, Dublin, factory for 8 years

Baptised at St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral, Marlborough Street, Dublin, 15/12/1919
Confirmed at St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral, Marlborough Street, Dublin, by Dr Byrne of Dublin, 10/02/1931

https://billiongraves.com/grave/Hubert-Donohoe/31333770
Buried at Dardistown Cemetery

Born: 10 April 1911, Fitzwilliam Street, Ringsend, Dublin
Entered: 03 September 1930, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 15 April 1932

Father was unemployed, and family is supported by private means.

Second of three boys with one sister.

Educated for four years at Christian Brothers Westland Row, he then went to the Apostolic School at Mungret College SJ

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: 12 February 1856, Kenmare, County Kerry
Entered: 11 February 1877, Milltown Park, Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 02 July 1878

Educated at Clongowes Wood College SJ and then Carlow Ecclesiastical College, followed by the Seminary at Mintauban

Born: 21 March 1859, Dalkey, County Dublin
Entered: 06 January 1880, Milltown Park, Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 1880/1

Educated at Ratcliffe College, Leicester; St Mary’s College, Dundalk; Clongowes Wood Coillege SJ

Older brother of Charles Doyle - RIP 1949 and Willie Doyle - RIP 1917

Born: 01 January 1827, County Wicklow
Entered: 31 December 1864, Milltown Park, Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: December 1865

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - DOB June 1838; Entry 10 January 1865. Recommended to leave by Superiors, December 1865. Brother Novice

Born: 20 October 1924, Elm Park Avenue, Ranelagh, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 07 September 1943, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 12 October 1943

Father, John J, was a Railway official and Mother was Mary (Martin).

2 Sisters

Educated at belvedere College SJ, Dublin

Born: 03 January 1846, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 07 March 1871, Notre-Dame de l’Hermitage, Lons-le-Saunier, France - Lugdunensis Province (LUGD)

Left Society of Jesus: 1872/3

Early education at Trinity College, Dublin

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Left during Noviceship. Not fit through health and character.

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.

Sources
GRO, Dublin; Dáil private sessions (1921–2); Dáil treaty debs. (1921–2); Flynn (1928–45); Ir. Times, Ir. Independent, 13 July 1953; Ir. Press, 15 July 1953; Piaras Béaslaí, ‘The North King Street area’, in Dublin's fighting story (1956?), 52; WWW; Breandán MacGiolla Choille (ed.), Intelligence notes 1913–16 (1966); Earl of Longford and T. P. O'Neill, Eamon de Valera (1970); C. Desmond Greaves, Liam Mellows and the Irish revolution (1971); Walker; James H. Murphy (ed.), Nos autem: Castleknock College and its contribution [1996]; Arthur Mitchell, Revolutionary government in Ireland: Dáil Éireann, 1919–22 (1995); 1916 rebellion handbook (1988 ed.); Timothy McMahon (ed.), Pádraig Ó Fathaigh's war of independence: recollections of a Galway Gaelic Leaguer (2000)

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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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: 02 December 1917, Surrey Street, Belfast County Antrim
Entered: 01 October 1940, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 25 September 1941

Father, Patrick, was an electrical welder and Mother, Brigid (O’Hagan) died in Feb 1940. Family moved to St Jude’s, Griffith Avenue. Drumcondra, Dublin in 1920

Younger of two boys with three sisters.

Early education was in convent and Christian Brothers Primary schools, at age 12 he went to St Joseph’s CBS Fairview, Dublin. In 1935 he went to O’Connell Schools, and after the Leaving Cert was awarded a scholarship to St Patrick’s Training College, Drumcondra. he was two years there.He then took a job teaching Maths and Irish at O’Connell Schools, and later took a job at St Joseph’s BNS, East Wall, Dublin. At the same time he attended evening lectures at UCD, and got a BA.

Baptised at St Brigid's Church, Derryvolgie Avenue, Belfast, County Antrim, 02/12/1917
Confirmed at The Church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Fairview Strand, Fairview, Dublin, by Dr Byrne of Dublin, 25/04/1929

Born: 15 July 1845, Kilkenny City, County Kilkenny
Entered: 02 December 1867, Milltown Park, Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 03 December 1868

Education at St Kieran’s Seminary, Kilkenny and St Patrick’s College, Maynooth

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Dismissed on 03 December 1868, as the death of his father absolutely necessitated his taking care of his younger sister - at least for some time. He left determined to return.

Born: County Meath or County Dublin
Entered: 1612, Tournai, Belgium (BELG)

Left Society of Jesus: 1614

◆ In Chronological Catalogue Sheet as Ent 1612

◆ Old/16 has a : “John Field”; DOB Meath or Dublin; Ent 1612

◆ Fr Edmund Hogan SJ “Catalogica Chronologica” :
DOB 1595 Dublin or Meath; A Candidate for the Society at Tournai 1612;

he is described as a youth of great abilities

Born: 23 June 1916, Esmonde Terrace, Bray, County Wicklow
Entered: 07 September 1934, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 22 Febraury 1935

Father was an engineer and mechanic. Family resided at Sherrard Street Upper, Dublin

Eldest of three boys.

Early education was six years at Central Model School, and then at Scoil Colmcille for three years. In 1930 he went to Mungret Apostolic School.

Born: 11 January 1921, Dundalk, County Louth
Entered: 07 September 1939, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 1939

Known as Desmond Gallagher

Father, Thomas, was an Inspector in the Department of Agriculture. Mother was Eva (Wynne). Family lived at Strand Road, Merrion, Dublin City, County Dublin

1 Brother, 3 Sisters

Educated at O’Connell’s School, Dublin

Baptised at St Patrick's Church, Roden Place, Dundalk, County Louth, 13/01/1921
Confirmed at St Agatha’s Church, North William Street, Dublin, by Dr Byrne of Dublin, 12/03/1931

Born: 27 November 1858, Laragh, County Kildare Kildare
Entered: 19 January 1878, Milltown Park, Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 1879

twin brother of Nicholas RIP at Nice 1882

Educated at Clongowes

◆ Note from twin brother Nicholas Gannon Entry
DOB 27/11/1858 Laragh; Ent 19/01/1878 in the company of his twin brother Aeneas (Ignatius); RIP 03/01/1882 Nice

Early education at Clongowes.

He Entered with his twin brother Aeneas, who LEFT and died shortly afterwards. Aeneas’ name was changed to Ignatius by Fr J Mckenna when he Entered, much to the disgust of the family, as it was an old family name.

Born: 16 May 1938, Carne Lodge, Cowper Gardens, Rathmines, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 07 September 1956, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Died: 07 July 2024, Cherryfield Lodge, Milltown Park, Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 25 June 1958

Father, James, was a Supreme Court Judge and died in 1951. Mother was Eileen Murphy.

Older of two boys.

Educated at a Convent school in Bray for three years, and then a further three at Willow Park, Blackrock, he then went to Clongowes Wood College Sj for six years.

Baptised at St Andrew’s Church, Westland Row, Dublin, 23/05/1938
Confirmed at St John the Baptist, Blackrock, Newtown Avenue, Blackrock, Dublin, 07/06/1949

https://rip.ie/death-notice/hugh-geoghegan-dublin-561762

The death has occurred of

Hugh GEOGHEGAN
Dublin
Peacefully. Beloved and loving husband of Mary, father of Caren, Sarah and James. Much loved also by his brother Ross, sons-in-law Kris and Bobby, daughter-in law Claire, his grandchildren Mary, Jane, Hugh, Eva, Harry, Laoise, Lila, Moya and Beth, sisters-in-law Suzanne, Joan, Ruth, Caroline and Geraldine, and brothers-in-law Tom, John and Liam, cousins, nephews, nieces, relatives and many friends.

Removal on Wednesday morning (July 10) to the Church of the Holy Name, Beechwood Avenue arriving for Funeral mass at 10.00 o’c followed by burial at Glasnevin Cemetery.Family flowers only.

Date Published:
Monday 8th July 2024

Date of Death:
Sunday 7th July 2024

https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2024/07/08/retired-supreme-court-judge-hugh-geoghegan-dies-aged-86/

Retired Supreme Court judge Mr Justice Hugh Geoghegan has died at the age of 86.

Mr Justice Geoghegan came from a family steeped in law. His father, James, was also a Supreme Court judge and in 1981 Mr Justice Geoghegan himself married another retired Supreme Court judge, Ms Justice Mary Finlay Geoghegan, also from a well-known legal family.

Mr Justice Geoghegan received his education at Clongowes Wood College, University College Dublin and the King’s Inns.

He was called to the Bar in 1962 and became a senior counsel in 1977, practising in Dublin and the Midland Circuit. He appeared as counsel before the tribunal into the Stardust fire disaster and chaired a commission that recommended the formation of the Labour Relations Commission.

He was appointed a judge of the High Court in 1992 and became a judge of the Supreme Court eight years later.

In an address to the International Prison Chaplains Conference in 2003, Mr Justice Geoghegan criticised media accusations of alleged “soft” sentencing of criminals and comparisons with the treatment of victims.

t was “an absurd idea that because a judge or other powers-that-be demonstrate concern for the rehabilitation of a criminal, they are thereby showing lack of respect or lack of concern for the victim”, he said.

The constant media contrasting of the two was the “most damaging and dangerous of all the errors that are made in an ill-thought-out public perception of the criminal system”, he said.

He said “victim impact and the distress caused to a victim are important factors in sentencing” but the potential of rehabilitating the offender so as to prevent future crimes was “equally important”.

“The one clear message that should be got across is that rehabilitation is always to the benefit of the public even more than it is to the benefit of the prisoner,” he said.

When he retired from the Supreme Court bench in 2010, senior counsel Michael Collins, the then chairman of the Bar Council, said “kindness” was the one word that summed up Mr Justice Geoghegan’s judicial and personal qualities. His judgments were infused with a deep sense of humanity and compassion, he said.

Mr Justice Geoghegan, who died on Sunday, is survived by his wife and three children – Fine Gael Councillor and Dublin Lord Mayor James Geoghegan; senior counsel Caren Geoghegan; and Sarah Geoghegan, a paediatrician.

https://www.lawsociety.ie/gazette/top-stories/2024/july/death-of-retired-supreme-court-judge

etired Supreme Court judge Mr Justice Hugh Geoghegan died yesterday (7 July) aged 86.

He died yesterday and is survived by his wife, retired Supreme Court judge Mrs Justice Mary Finlay Geoghegan, and three children, Caren, Sarah and James, who is a Fine Gael Dublin City councillor.

Inner Bar
The deceased was called to the Bar in 1962 and to the Inner Bar in 1977, becming a High Court judge in 1992.

In 2000 he was appointed to the Supreme Court.

His removal will take place on Wednesday morning (July 10) to the Church of the Holy Name, Beechwood Avenue, Ranelagh, Dublin 6, for funeral Mass at 10 am. The funeral will be followed by burial at Glasnevin Cemetery.

'Learned and kind'
Justice minister Helen McEntee said: “It is with deep sadness that I learned of the passing of retired Supreme Court judge Mr Justice Hugh Geoghegan.

“I want to extend my heartfelt sympathy to his wife, Judge Mary Finlay Geoghegan, to their family, Caren, Sarah and James, extended family and loved ones.

“Hugh Geoghegan was a very learned, kind and gentle man who served the State with huge distinction from his appointment to the High Court in 1992, going on to serve on the Supreme Court bench in 2000 until his retirement in 2010.

“I know he will be sadly missed by all who had the privilege of knowing him.

Suaimhneas síoraí dá anam dílis.”

https://www.gov.ie/en/press-release/ca184-statement-by-minister-for-justice-helen-mcentee-td-on-death-of-retired-judge-hugh-geoghegan/

Statement by Minister for Justice Helen McEntee, TD on death of retired judge Hugh Geoghegan
From Department of Justice

Published on 9 July 2024

Last updated on 9 July 2024

“It is with deep sadness that I learned of the passing of retired Supreme Court judge the Hon Mr Justice Hugh Geoghegan.

"I want to extend my heartfelt sympathy to his wife, Judge Mary Finlay Geoghegan, to their family, Caren, Sarah, and James, extended family and loved ones.

"Hugh Geoghegan was a very learned, kind and gentle man who served the State with huge distinction from his appointment to the High Court in 1992, going on to serve on the Supreme Court bench in 2000 until his retirement in 2010.

"I know he will be sadly missed by all who had the privilege of knowing him.

"Suaimhneas síoraí dá anam dílis.”

https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2024/07/10/retired-supreme-court-judge-hugh-geoghegan-remembered-at-funeral-mass-as-man-of-boundless-curiosity/?

Retired Supreme Court judge Hugh Geoghegan remembered at funeral Mass as man ‘of boundless curiosity’
Congregation hears that judge’s ‘only regret in life’ was not having met his wife sooner

A retired Supreme Court judge, Hugh Geoghegan, was remembered as a loving husband and father, a loyal friend, and a man of “boundless curiosity” at his funeral Mass on Wednesday.

He died last Sunday aged 86.

At his 60th birthday celebration, her father said his only regret in life was that he had not met Mary, his wife of 43 years, sooner, senior counsel Caren Geoghegan said.

Her Dad was an “amazing father” who invented many stories and games for his three young children but, “rather than I spy, we were quizzed about the capital cities of the most obscure countries”.

No subject was off limits at family dinners and she recalled her father saying to her mother: “Mary, I will not be censored,” Ms Geoghegan said.

James Geoghegan, Fine Gael councillor and Dublin lord mayor, said the family were overwhelmed by the many tributes to his father emphasising his compassion and kindness.

His father was a man of “boundless curiosity” who was “obsessive” about current affairs. He recalled being in a car with a radio antennae stuck outside the window as his father tried to find out if the Belfast Agreement had been signed.

Above all, his father “absolutely adored Mum and loved his family”, he said. “Dad, in the fullest of health, was a permanent source of amusement and fun, he made us laugh so much, he adored conversation and controversy.”

Both siblings were speaking at a Mass of thanksgiving in Dublin for the judge. .

The chief celebrant was Fr Michael Sheil SJ, a lifelong friend of the late judge since they met as students of Clongowes Wood College.

His friend’s judgments had been described as “infused with humanity and compassion” which summed him up very well, Fr Sheil said. “He brought so much gentle happiness and laughter into people’s lives.”

The chief mourners were the judge’s wife Mary Finlay Geoghegan, also a retired Supreme Court judge, son James, daughters Caren and Sarah, brother Ross, and extended family including nine grandchildren.

President Michael D Higgins and Taoiseach Simon Harris were represented by their aides de camp.

Attorney General Rossa Fanning was among the packed congregation as were many serving and retired judges of the superior courts, including Chief Justice Donal O’Donnell, Court of Appeal president George Birmingham and High Court president David Barniville.

Former chief justice Susan Denham and former High Court presidents Mary Irvine and Peter Kelly, many barristers and solicitors, and Labour Party leader Ivana Bacik also attended.

A native of Dublin, Hugh Geoghegan was called to the Bar in 1962 and became a senior counsel in 1977, practising in Dublin and the midlands circuit. He was appointed a judge of the High Court in 1992 and a judge of the Supreme Court eight years later.

Born: 21 June 1913, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 11 March 1932, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 21 June 1932

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Belvedere stduent. LEFT no vocation

Born: 18 April 1913, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 07 September 1931, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 14 September 1931

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - CBC Dublin student; LEFT during 1st Probation

Born: 10 June 1914, George’s Villa, Inchicore, Dublin
Entered: 07 September 1933, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 30 July 1935

Father was a National School teacher and family have lived at Inchicore Road, Inchicore.

Two older sisters and a younger brother and sister.

Early education at Inchicore NS and then at Synge Street. He then went to Skerry’s College, Harcourt Street to do the Dublin Corporation Clerkship exam. Then he went to Belvedere College SJ to make Matriculation.

Born: 01 March 1855, Coolquill, Ballingarry, County Tipperary
Entered: 31 August 1876, Milltown Park, Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 1877

Educated at St Patrick’s College, Thurles and Irish College, Paris

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

Born: 07 December 1941, Mayfield, Station Road, Sutton, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 07 September 1959, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Died: 31 May 2021, Greystones, County Wicklow

Left Society of Jesus: 07 June 1961

Anthony Mary Grealish

Father, John, was a journalist. Mother was Nora (O’Connor). Family also lived in Limerick at Glenlevan, Ennis Road, Limerick

Family of three boys and one girl with one brother older.

Educated at a Convent school in Dublin and then two in Limerick. He then went to Crescent College SJ for three years, and returning to Dublin spent six years at St Fintan’s High School in Sutton.

Baptised at St Andrew’s Church, Westland Row, Dublin, 08/12/1941
Confirmed at St Michael’s Church, Denmark Street, Limerick, by Dr O’Neill of Limerick, 28/05/1952

https://rip.ie/death-notice/anthony-tony-grealish-wicklow-greystones-446025

The death has occurred of

Anthony (Tony) Grealish
Greystones, Wicklow / Sutton, Dublin
Anthony (Tony) Grealish, late of Greystones, Co. Wicklow and formerly of Sutton, Co. Dublin, died, suddenly at home on 31st May 31, 2021; beloved husband of the late Maura, sadly missed by his daughter Laura, son Jonathan, brother Oliver, friend Noel Whiston, Robin the dog and Emilia the cat; recently predeceased by his brother Rory.

May he rest in peace

Date Published:
Tuesday 1st June 2021

Date of Death:
Monday 31st May 2021

Born: 07 June 1834,
Entered: 24 December 1862, Milltown Park, Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 08 February 1863

Born: 02 February 1857, Cullintra, Ferrycarrig, County Wexford
Entered: 10 September 1879, Milltown Park, Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 07 May 1881

Educated at St Peter’s College, Wexford

Born: 31 May 1912, Iveagh Buildings, Bride Street, Dublin, County Dublin
Entered: 07 September 1953, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 28 December 1953

Brother Novice

Parents were Henry and Kathleen (Kelly), both deceased at the time of entry.

2 Sisters amd 1 Brother

Educated at local National School, and subsequently some commercial subjects at a Technical School. Had worked as an accountant on various places.

Baptised in St. Nicholas of Myra Church, Francis Street, Dublin, 03/06/1912
Confirmed in St Michael and John’s, Lower Exchange Street, Dublin on 15/03/1923

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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)

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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: 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: 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: 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.

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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: 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

https://www.dib.ie/biography/little-patrick-john-p-j-a4851

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

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/167895795/philip-francis-little

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: 09 April 1841, Rutland Squarre, Dublin, County Dublin
Entered: 03 May 1873, Milltown Park, Dublin at Clongowes Wood College SJ

Left Society of Jesus: 1875

Early education at Carlow College and then UCD

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Ent 23 November 1870; LEFT to complete his Noviceship in America in 1871. Came back to Ireland 1872, and returning to America was not received. He began his Noviceship for this Province 05 May 1873. LEFT 1873

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - 2nd Entry : Went to Clongowes to be a Prefect 16 September 1873. Sent back to Novitiate and told to learn “character”, which he did with much regret