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Entered: 07 September 1813, Hodder, Stonyhurst College SJ, Lancashire, England - Angliae Province (ANG)

Left Society of Jesus: 1826

1813-1815: Hodder, Stonyhurst College SJ, Lancashire, England (ANG), Novitiate
1815-1822: Clongowes Wood College SJ, Regency and Theology

◆ Fr Edmund Hogan SJ “Catalogica Chronologica” :
Loose leaf note in CatChrn : Entitled “Left Stonyhurst for Castle Brown”
23 Oct 1815

Born: 23 June 1909, Harcourt Street, Belfast, County Antrim
Entered: 26 September 1927, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 18 June 1931 (from Rathfarnham Castle)

Father was Assistant Collector for Customs & Excise in Dublin, and the family was at Waterloo Road, Ballsbridge.

Youngest of four boys with three sisters.

Early education was at a National School in Belfast (1916-1921). He then went for two years to North Monatery, Cork, and then moving to Dublin went to Synge Street.

1927-1929: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Novitiate
1929-1931: Rathfarnham Castle, Juniorate

Born: 13 January 1837, Ballinagrath, Ballyhea, Charleville, County Cork
Entered: 29 Pctpber 1861, Milltown Park, Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 25 June 1865

Education at Kanturk and Thurles seminary

1861-1863: Milltown Park, Dublin, Novitiate
1863-1865: Manresa, Roehampton, London, England (ANG),

Born: 04 April 1834,
Entered: 21 October 1853, Beaumont Lodge, Berkshire, England - Angliae Province (ANG)

Left Society of Jesus: 1857

1853-1855: Beaumont Lodge, Berkshire, England (ANG), Novitiate
1855-1857: St Stanislaus College SJ, Tullabeg, County Offaly, Regency

Born: 15 July 1826,
Entered: 03 September 1849, St Acheul, Amiens, France - Franciae Province (FRA)

Left Society of Jesus: 1856

1849-1851: St Acheul, Amiens, France (FRA)
1851-1852: Brugelette College, Brugelette, France (FRA, Philosophy
1852-1855: Clongowes Wood College SJ, Regency
1855-1856: St Beuno’s, St Asaph, Flintshire, Wales (ANG), Theology

Born: 04 September 1874, Bruree, County Limerick
Entered: 07 September 1891, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1903

Educated at Carlow College, St Stanislaus Collefge SJ, Tullabeg, and Clongowes Wood College SJ

1891-1893: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly, Novitiate
1893-1894: Milltown Park, Dublin, Rhetoric
1894-1895: Maison Saint-Augustin, Enghien Belgium (CAMP), Philosophy
1895-1897: St Mary’s Hall, Stonyhurst College SJ, Lancashiure, England (ANG), Philosophy
1897-1902: Clongowes Wood College SJ, Regency, Editor “Clongownian”
1902-1903: Mungret College SJ, Limerick, Regency

◆ The Clongownian, 1931

“The Snows of Yesteryear”

V The Prophets

Perhaps the Editor was right when he suggested to me that we of the early nineteen hundreds are still too young to have any clear memories. Yet some of my recollections of old masters are fresh enough. I wish I could talk of Fr Nicholas Walsh, but he was here past my time and his own, and in any case was little known to the boys. But I recall Mr “Darby” O'Donoghue, the tall, gentlemanly scholastic, whom we all admired and liked...........

Born: 10 August 1867, East Burghold, Suffolk, England
Entered: 07 September 1888, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1892

Mother Helen (White) died when Edmond was 3 months. Father married again (for a third time). First marriage produced 3 sons and one daughter and four sons by third.

Early education at Hodder, Stonyhurst and St Edmund’s, Hertfordshire and Downside Abbey

1888-1890: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly, Novitiate
1890-1891: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly, Rhetoric
1891-1892: Maison Saint Louis, St Helier, Channel Islands (FRA), Philosophy

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - LEFT from 1st year Philosophy. Studied for secular priesthood

Born: 23 March 1893, Corville, Roscrea, County Tipperary
Entered: 30 October 1911. St Stanislaus Macon GA, USA - Neo-Aurelianensis Province (NOR)

Left Society of Jesus: 1924

Educated at Mungret College SJ

1911-1913: St Stanislaus Macon GA, USA (NOR), Novitiate
1913-1915: St Stanislaus Macon GA, USA (NOR), Rhetoric
1915-1918: Mount St Michael’s, Hillyard WA, USA (CAL), Philosophy
1918-1921: Spring Hill College SJ, Mobile AL, USA, Regeny, Editor of “Springhillian”
1921-1922: College of the Immaculate Conception SJ, Baronne Street, New Orleans LA, USA, Regency
1922-1923: L’Immaculée Conception, Rue Rachel, Montreal, Canada (CAN), Theology
1923-1924: Colegio de San Ignacio, Sarría, Barcelona, Spain (ARA), Theology

Born: 30 October 1870, Australia
Entered: 04 February 1895, Loyola Greenwich, Australia (HIB)

Left Society of Jesus: 1912

1895-1897: Loyola Greenwich, Australia (HIB), Novitiate
1897-1902: St Ignatius College SJ Riverview, Sydney NSW, Australia, Regency
1902-1904: Rue des Récollets, Leuven Belgium (BELG), Philosophy
1904-1906: San Luigi, Napoli-Posilipo, Italy (NAP), Theology
1906-1907: Milltown Park, Dublin, Awaiting assignment
1907-1911: Coláiste Iognáid, Galway, Teaching
1911-1912: On Australian Mission

Born: 27 April 1856, India
Entered: 01 February 1874, Calcutta Mission, Hazaribagh Station, Jharkand, India - Belgicae Province (BELG)

Left Society of Jesus: 1881

Early Irish Mission to to Australia 1880 - 3rd Scholastics with James Power, and Daniel Sheahan

1874-1876: Calcutta Mission, Hazaribagh Station, Jharkand, India (BELG), Novitiate
1876-1878: St Joseph’s College, Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu, India (TOLO), Regency
1878-1879; St Francis Xavier College SJ, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, Regency
1879-1880: Calcutta Mission, Asansol Stration, West Bengal, India, Private Study
1880-1881; St Ignatius College SJ Riverview, Sydney NSW, Australia, Regency

Born: 27 April 1856, India
Entered: 01 February 1874, Calcutta Mission, Hazaribagh Station, Jharkand, India - Belgicae Province (BELG)

Left Society of Jesus: 1881

Early Irish Mission to to Australia 1880 - 3rd Scholastics with James Power, and Daniel Sheahan

1874-1876: Calcutta Mission, Hazaribagh Station, Jharkand, India (BELG), Novitiate
1876-1878: St Joseph’s College, Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu, India (TOLO), Regency
1878-1879; St Francis Xavier College SJ, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, Regency
1879-1880: Calcutta Mission, Asansol Stration, West Bengal, India, Private Study
1880-1881; St Ignatius College SJ Riverview, Sydney NSW, Australia, Regency

Born: 27 January 1822,
Entered: 21 September 1839, Drongen, Belgium - Belgicae Province (BELG)

Left Society of Jesus: 1842

1839-1841: Drongen, Belgium (BELG), Novitiate
1841-1842: Collége Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur, Belgium, Philosophy

Born: 07 August 1917, Belfast, County Antrim
Entered: 07 September 1936, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 09 February 1942

Father was a merchant, and family lived at Mount Eden Road, Donnybrook, Dublin.

Eldest of four boys with five sisters.

Early education was at CBS Westland Row and then at O’Connells School for six years.

1936-1938: St Mary's, Emo, Novitiate
1938-1941: Rathfarnham Castle, Juniorate, UCD
1941-1942: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Philosophy

Reported to have married and had a big family, and had been Managing Director of the Portlaw Tannery, County Waterford. His wife had died of cancer.

Born: 31 January 1910, Suffolk Street, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 01 September 1927, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly
Died 18 July 1983, Riverside Drive, Rathfarnham, Dublin City, County Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 18 June 1935

Father, Henry Joseph owned a House Agency and Auctioneers, and later involved in the Hotel business (Jury’s & North Star). Mother was Mary Josephine (Byrne). Family resided at Claremount, Waterloo Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin

Younger of two boys (older brother being in the Society) and one sister.

Early education was at a Holy Faith Convent, and then at Synge Street. Finally he spent six years at Belvedere College SJ.

1927-1929: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Novitiate
1929-1932: Rathfarnham Castle, Juniorate, UCD
1932-1933: Vals, France (TOL) studying Philosophy
1933-1935: Belvedere College SJ, Regency

https://www.dib.ie/biography/obrien-john-joseph-jack-a6477

O'Brien, John Joseph (Jack)
Contributed by
Murphy, Angela
O'Brien, John Joseph (Jack) (1910–83), businessman, was born 31 January 1910, second son of Henry Joseph O'Brien, hotel proprietor and house agent of Waterloo Rd, Dublin, and his wife Mary Josephine (née Byrne). Educated at Belvedere College, Dublin, he took a keen interest in rugby, tennis and, in particular, public speaking. Graduating BA from UCD, he enrolled at King's Inns in 1938 and qualified as a barrister in 1941. He rose to prominence within the business community when in 1937 he became secretary of a Dublin-based employers’ organisation, the Federated Employers, which had its origins in the labour disputes of 1913. O'Brien was ‘the driving force of the organization’ (McGuire, unpublished memoir, 74). It was O'Brien who envisaged unifying employers’ bodies throughout Ireland into one national organisation, which could match the professionalism of the trade unions in the arts of industrial relations and bargaining skills. With the support of their council, O'Brien and Edward McGuire (qv), president of the Federated Employers, set about forming a national body which would be manned by a staff of full-time professionals. The result was the foundation in 1942 of the Federated Union of Employers, with O'Brien as its general secretary (later redesignated as director general in 1951); he held this position until his retirement in 1960. During this time, he led negotiations with the ITUC on unofficial disputes and wage agreements.

His international career began in 1945 when he was elected adviser to the International Labour Organisation (ILO). During 1947–60 he held the position of employers’ delegate to the ILO. Moreover, in 1954 he became the first Irishman to hold a seat on the ILO's governing body, a seat that he held for two consecutive terms. His international prestige as a renowned public speaker grew, and in 1960 he was elected president of the International Organisation of Employers and vice-chairman of the International Labour Office. In 1958 he became a director of the Shannon Estuary Co. He still maintained a pivotal role within the commercial sector after he retired. His chief business interests lay in the hotel and tourism trade, and in 1960 he became chairman of Jury's Hotels Ltd. In the same year he was elected vice-president of the Dublin chamber of commerce, and the following year he became its president.

He always maintained an association with Belvedere College; in 1935 he was made honorary secretary of Old Belvedere Rugby Club and subsequently became its president (1953–6). He was also elected president of the College Union in 1966. A very dapper man, he always ran the FUE with great style; his renditions of ‘How can you buy Killarney’ and ‘Frankie and Johnnie were lovers’ were a feature at many annual dinners. The delivery of Trinity cigarettes from Fox's to the FUE every Friday was also an example of his style. He lived most of his life at 15 Riverside Drive, Rathfarnham, Dublin, with his wife Claire, their daughter, and their four sons until his death on 18 July 1983.

Sources
Ir. Times, 8 Dec. 1959, 19 July 1983; Brian Hillery and Patrick Lynch, Ireland in the International Labour Organisation ([1969]); Ir. Independent, 19 July 1983; Belvederian Yearbook 1984; Basil Chubb (ed.), FIE: Federation of Irish Employers 1942–1992 (1992) (photo); Kenneth Ferguson, King's Inns barristers 1868–2004 (2005); E. A. McGuire, unpublished memoir (private possession)

Born: 30 March 1947, Williamstown House, Williamstown, Carbury, County Kildare
Entered: 07 September 1965, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Died: 29 January 2020, Sunnybrook Hospital, Bayview Avenue,Toronto ONT, Canada

Left Society of Jesus: 29 August 1978

Born in Dublin

Father (Eugene J) was a Company Director. Mother Ellen (Dempsey)

Youngest of three boys.

Educated for three years at a Preparatory school outside Naas, County Kildare, he then went to Clongowes Wood College SJ for seven years.

Confirmed at the Oratory, Kilashee by Dr Keogh of Kildare and Leighlin, 15/05/1957

1965-1967: St Mary's, Emo, Novitiate
1967-1970: Rathfarnham Castle, Juniorate, UCD (BA)
1970-1973: Milltown Park, Philosophy
1973-1975: Gonzaga College SJ, Regence
1975-1977: Regis Toronto (CAN S) studying Theology
1977-1978: College of Industrial Relations, Lecturing

Tom and his wife Christine gave a directed retreat at Manresa in 1982

Address 2000 & 1991: Ramwood Drive, Weston, Toronto, ONT, Canada

https://www.legacy.com/ca/obituaries/thestar/name/thomas-o-brien-obituary?id=40581960

THOMAS O'BRIEN Obituary
O'BRIEN, THOMAS (TOM) Thomas (Tom) O'Brien passed away surrounded by family and loved ones at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto on January 29, 2020 at age 72. Beloved son of the late Eugene and Ellen, and loving husband of Christine, Tom will be dearly missed by his children, Ellen (Paul), Michael (Vanessa), Wanda, and Patrick (Ashley); brothers, Eugene (Ingrid) and Paul (Sheila); in-laws, George, Stan (Tish) and Mara; nieces and nephews; grand-nieces and grand-nephews; best friends, Tony (Marian) and Patrick (Dianne); Irish relatives; the Senator O'Connor community; the St. John the Evangelist Parish community; and his many many friends. Born March 30, 1947, in Dublin, Ireland, Thomas was a proud child of two Irish counties; he grew up on the farm and fields of Williamstown House, Carbury, County Kildare, and on the fairways and in the supermarket in Edenderry, County Offaly, the centre of his father's business enterprises. Thomas was introduced to Ignatian spirituality during secondary school at Clongowes Wood College, after which he joined the Irish Jesuits, with whom he spent 13 years living in community, learning the practice of discernment and building the faith foundations that lasted throughout his life. A student of theology, philosophy, politics and history, Thomas obtained his undergraduate degree from University College Dublin and Master of Divinity from Regis College, University of Toronto. Although he moved on from the Society of Jesus, Ignatian spirituality never left him. He married Christine in 1981, started a family, and proudly made Canada his second home. Tom had an extraordinary ability to make a deep connection in everyday moments: from the hallways of Senator O'Connor where he taught for over 30 years, to St. John the Evangelist Parish where he sang every Sunday, to the friendships he formed co-founding North York Storm Girls Hockey League, playing at Weston Golf & Country Club, volunteering in the community and so much more. He will be greatly missed by all who knew him, for his kindness, compassion, voice (as both storyteller and musician), quick wit, intelligence and beautiful golf swing. Visitation on Sunday, February 2nd, 1:00 - 4:00 and 6:00 - 8:00 p.m., and Monday, February 3rd, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m., Ward Funeral Home (Weston), 2035 Weston Rd. Funeral Mass on Tuesday, February 4th at 10:00 a.m. at Our Lady of Lourdes Parish, 520 Sherbourne St., Toronto. Burial to follow. In lieu of flowers, please send donations to the Good Shepherd Refuge.

Born: 02 September 1921, Marlborough Street, Derry, County Derry
Entered: 07 September 1940, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 27 February 1948

Father, Joseph, was the Cathedral Organist and Professor of Music at the Diocesan College Derry, and then became the Director of The Municipal School of Music, Chatham Row, Dublin, and organist at St Francis Xavier’s Church, Gardiner Street. Mother was May (Byrne)Family moved in 1930 to Merrion Road, Dublin.

Second eldest of seven boys and two girls.

Early education was at various schools and then at Belvedere College SJ for six years

Baptised at St Eugene’s Cathedral, Derry 03/09/1921
Confirmed at Church of the Assumption, Booterstown by Dr Byrne of Dublin, 22/03/1932

1940-1942: St Mary's, Emo, Novitiate
1942-1945: Rathfarnham Castle, Juniorate, UCD
1945-1948: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Philosophy

Address 2000: Newlands Crescent, Portstewart, County Derry

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https://rip.ie/death-notice/dr-vincent-obrien-derry-portstewart-160420

Born: 23 February 1906, Main Street, Doneraile, County Cork
Entered: 06 September 1923, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 30 July 1929 (from Heythrop - Philosophy)

Parents were shopkeepers and father died in 1917.

Eldest of three boys with five sisters.

Early education was for a year at a Convent school, and then five at the Christian Brothers in Doneraile. He then went to St Colman’s in Fermoy

1923-1925: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Novitiate
1925-1927: Rathfarnham Castle, Juniorate
1927-1929: Heythrop, Oxfordshire (ANG) studying Philosophy

LEFT from Heythrop (Philosophy)

Born: 19 February 1928, Breaghna, Willbrook Road, Rathfarnham, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 07 September 1945, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Died: 06 January 2018, Abbey Haven Nursing Home, Boyle, County Roscommon

Left Society of Jesus: 24 February 1950 (from Rathfarnham Castle)

Diarmuid born at the Nursing Home based at 37, Lower Leeson Street, subsequently part of the St Ignatius Jesuit Community of Leeson Street.

Father, Colman John was a Civil Servant and businessman, Mother was Mary (Brennan) and family lived at Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin City. Family then moved to Bay View, Courtmacsherry, County Cork

Elder of two boys with two sisters.

Early education was for two years at a Convent school in Dublin and then at Clongowes Wood College SJ for five years.

Baptised at Church of the Annunciation, Rathfarnham, 26/09/1928

1945-1947: St Mary's, Emo, Novitiate
1947-1950: Rathfarnham Castle, Juniorate, UCD

Address 2000: Warren, Boyle, County Roscommon

The death has occurred of

Diarmuid O'Donovan
Warren, Boyle, Roscommon
Diarmuid O'Donovan, Warren, Boyle, Co. Roscommon, January 6th 2018. Peacefully at Abbey Haven Nursing Home, Boyle. Sadly missed by his loving wife Mary, brother Fr. Dan O'Donovan (Australia) late Courtmacsherry, Co. Cork, nephew, relatives friends and neighbours.

R.I.P.

Reposing at Abbey Haven Nursing Home, Boyle, Co. Roscommon on Sunday evening 6 o'clock until 7 o'clock. Arriving to St.Joseph's Church, Boyle, for Mass of the Resurrection on Monday morning at 11 o'clock. Funeral afterwards to Kilcolman Cemetery, Ballaghadereen.

Date Published:
Saturday 6th January 2018

Date of Death:
Saturday 6th January 2018

Born: 18 April 1907, Wellpark Avenue, Drumcondra, Dublin
Entered: 01 September 1924, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 05 December 1927

Family lived at Home Farm Road, Drumcondra, Dublin, with his father, Daniel, being a Civil Servant.

Eldest of eight with five boys and three girls.

Early education was at a private school, and then in 1913 he went to Kilcoole Preparatory College, and then went to St Pat’s BNS, Drumcondra. he then went to Belvedere College in 1920 for one year and then to O’Connells School

1924-1926: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Novitiate
1926-1927: Ratfarnham Castle, Juniorate

Born: 05 September 1917, O’Curry College, Carrigaholt, County Clare
Entered: 14 September 1936, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 19 March 1950

Father, Brian, was a journalist at publisher. Mother, Anne (Kenny). Family lived at Hollybrook Road, Clontarf, Dublin.

Youngest of four boys with one sister.

Early education was at a Convent school in Glasnevin and then at O’Connells School. (1927-1936)

1936-1938: St Mary's, Emo Novitiate
1938-1941: Rathfarnham Castle, Juniorate, UCD
1941-1944: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Philosophy
1944-1946: Coláiste Iognád SJ, Regency
1946-1950: Milltown Park, Theology

After leaving was married and had six children. He lived at Goatstown Road, Dundrum, Dublin and worked at Gill & MacMillan, Belvedere Place, Dublin

Born: 15 February 1915, Eyrecourt, Ballinasloe, Co Galway
Entered: 30 September 1933, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Died: 12 February 2003, County Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 15 June 1945

Parents, Patrick and Mary (Donnellan) were shopkeepers and father died in 1915.

Elder of two boys.

Early education was at a Convent school and National school both in Eyrecourt, and then he went to Rockwell College for two years, followed by three years at St Joseph’s College, Ballinasloe.

Baptised at St Brendan’s, Eyrecourt, 21/02/1919
Confirmed at St Brendan’s, Eyrecourt, by Dr Dignam of Clonfert, 11/05/1926

1933-1935: St Mary's, Emo, Novitiate
1935-1939: Rathfarnham Castle, Juniorate, UCD
1939-1941: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Philosophy
1941-1942: Clongowes Wood College S, Regency
1942-1944: Campion Hall, Oxford, England, Studying for a DPhil
1944-1945: St Ignatius Leeson St, preparing thesis for publication and assisting at University Hall.

On leaving was appointed as Assistant Lecturer in Classics at UCD. He was ultimately appointed Professor of Latin at UCD.

Address 2000 & 1991: Maple Road, Clonskeagh, Dublin City & UCD, Belfield, Dublin City

https://www.dib.ie/biography/omeara-john-a9461

O'Meara, John
Contributed by
Bradley, Bruce
O'Meara, John (1915–2003), academic, was born 18 February 1915 at Eyrecourt, Co. Galway, the elder of two sons of Patrick O'Meara, a small businessman from Ilaunmore on Lough Derg, and Mary O'Meara (née Donelan). The very early death of his father, at the end of 1915, and the troubled state of the country coloured his early years but he was to paint a warm portrait of his childhood in his gentle, elegant memoir, The singing masters (1990), written towards the end of his long life. After primary education in the local school, he was sent to Rockwell College in 1928. Planning to become a priest, he transferred to Garbally College, the minor seminary of his native diocese, Clonfert, in 1930. His academic ability and attraction to the ancient classics were quickly apparent and he remembered reading all the Odes of Horace four times during his last two years at school. During a retreat, he decided that his call was to the Society of Jesus rather than the diocese and he entered the Jesuit novitiate at Emo, Co. Laois, in October 1933. This was followed by four years at UCD, while living in Rathfarnham Castle. Here he studied Latin under Patrick Semple (1875–1954), whom he was later to succeed in the chair, and Greek under the redoubtable Michael Tierney (qv), with whom he would cross swords on several issues when his former patron had become president of the college.

A brilliant academic course led to the award of an MA and an NUI travelling studentship in 1939, but the outbreak of war encouraged his Jesuit superiors to send him first to philosophical studies in St Stanislaus College, Tullamore, Co. Offaly (known as 'Tullabeg' to the Jesuits), for two years, and then to teach in Clongowes Wood College, Co. Kildare, for a further year (1941–2). Although not over-impressed by the quality of philosophical teaching he encountered at Tullabeg, he began his first serious work on Neoplatonism there, when studying the Enneads of Plotinus, and he delighted in what he remembered as a life 'of study, good companionship and a common noble purpose' (Singing masters, 78). He retained a special affection for the Jesuits throughout his life.

In October 1942 he was finally able to embark on his studentship, which, owing to the war, he took up in Oxford rather than Berlin or Leipzig, as he might have wished. An inclination towards Platonism from his early years, stimulated by Michael Tierney's tuition, and a growing interest in the Irish ninth-century Platonising philosopher John Scottus Eriugena (qv), then largely neglected, led him to propose the topic 'Prolegomena to the Contra academicos of St Augustine' for his doctoral thesis. This was intended to allow him to explore both Augustine and Plotinus, along with Plotinus's disciple Porphyry. Partly, at least, because of the war, these were not, academically, the best of times in Oxford. Living in the Jesuit Campion Hall, he had to pursue his studies with a lack of adequate supervision and largely on his own. Later on, as professor, he tended to direct his students towards the great European centres of classical study in preference to Oxford or Cambridge. But he loved the enchantments of Oxford itself and the opportunities it afforded of being taught by the great German classicist Eduard Fraenkel and of encountering such memorable figures as Edwin Lutyens, Evelyn Waugh, a very elderly Hilaire Belloc, and the brilliant master of Campion Hall, Fr Martin D'Arcy, and his own bright, attractive personality and high intelligence enabled him to make the most of it.

From early in his years as a Jesuit student, he had struggled with issues of faith, and, as the challenge of priesthood drew nearer, the struggle became critical and the reassurance of superiors that this was a common experience no longer sufficed. In June 1945, having returned to Dublin, he decided to leave the order. For a time, gifted as he was with musical ability and a fine tenor voice, he wondered about embarking on a singing career. Meanwhile, he had begun working in the classics department at UCD and, with Michael Tierney's support, he obtained Semple's now vacant Latin chair, becoming professor at the early age of 33, in 1948. A year earlier he had married Odile de Barthès de Montfort from the Passy section of Paris, who was secretary to the French ambassador in Dublin at the time. They were to have one son, Dominique, who followed him into the classics, and two daughters, Caitríona and Odile.

The UCD appointment proved inspired and created a context in which he could exercise his wide range of abilities as teacher, scholar and administrator to the full. Handsome, urbane, witty and approachable, he quickly emerged as an excellent teacher, equally competent in dealing with Latin as language and as literature. He could adapt his teaching to the needs of the large numbers of students whose only interest in Latin was to fulfil the university requirements then in force by passing a preliminary examination in it, but his special gift was to be able to inspire and encourage those better equipped and more committed to the higher reaches of the subject.

Meanwhile, despite the demands of administering a relatively large department, his own scholarship was not neglected and he produced a steady stream of studies, editions, translations and reviews from the beginning of his tenure, which in time won him international recognition in his two chosen fields. He had been elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy in 1953 and, in time, would play a leading role in the Academy's Hiberno-Latin project. He represented Ireland on many overseas bodies, including the Fédération Internationale des Études Classiques. He was especially at home in French culture and his work with eminent French scholars duly won him inscription in the Légion d'honneur. His translations included not only Augustine's Against the academics (1950), on which he had written his doctoral thesis, and the third-century Greek Father of the Church Origen of Alexandria's On prayer and his Exhortation to martyrdom (1954), but also the Topography of Ireland (1951) of Giraldus Cambrensis (qv), and the The voyage of St Brendan (1976).

The main focus of his research always remained Augustine and Neoplatonism, but the interest he had developed in Eriugena came increasingly to the fore in later years and in 1970 he founded a society to promote Eriugena studies, in which he had long taken the lead. In Eriugena he saw a thinker who wrote in Latin but, remarkably for a ninth-century western European, knew Greek, and who had 'sought to reconcile the dominating, somewhat de-Platonised Augustinianism of the West with the Neoplatonised theology of the Greek Fathers' (Singing masters, 63). O'Meara's The young Augustine: the growth of St Augustine's mind up to his conversion (1954) became something of a classic on its subject and was later translated into French (1958) and reissued in paperback in 1980.

He took a keen interest in university politics, being elected to the UCD governing body (1956 and 1962) and to the senate of the National University of Ireland in 1962. By the time he ran unsuccessfully for the presidency of the college in 1964, following Michael Tierney's retirement, he had become a somewhat controversial figure in the eyes of some, owing to his views on such matters as the move of UCD to Belfield, which he opposed, and closer association with Trinity College, which he strongly espoused. In both instances, he was on the opposite side of the argument from Tierney. From early in his life, he had been a sceptic in relation to the revival of Irish: he was attracted to the language itself but viewed public policy in the light of what he saw as Ireland's enduring need to escape from cultural isolation. He was pragmatist enough to argue that Latin should cease to be required under university regulations, which, along with changes in the catholic church in the 1960s, had the effect of gradually reducing the hitherto large numbers in his department. Its larger impact may have been to contribute to the decline of Latin in the school curriculum, but this can hardly have been part of his purpose. He took a genuine interest in encouraging second-level teachers of classical subjects and was responsible for launching the Association of Classical Teachers in this cause. In all of these issues, his steely, combative side, not unfamiliar to his students, and his willingness to swim against the stream in the name of principle, whatever the cost to himself, was amply demonstrated.

Following retirement in 1984, he remained active in the studies to which he had devoted a significant part of his life, spending time in Princeton and other centres of excellence, as well as writing The singing masters, in which he displayed lyricism of vision and the felicity of his own style. The memoir deals only with his early life, ending with his departure from the Jesuits and marriage to Odile. There were many who regretted that no later volume followed. The year after it appeared, his colleagues produced a small Festschrift, From Augustine to Eriugena (1991), in his honour. This contains a comprehensive bibliography of his published work. He continued to keep in touch with and encourage his former students, offering friendship and advice as he had throughout his professorial career, up to the time of his death, which occurred unexpectedly in Dublin, after a minor operation, on 12 February 2003.

Sources
John O'Meara, The singing masters (1990); F. X. Martin OSA and J. A. Richmond (ed.), From Augustine to Eriugena: essays on Neoplatonism and Christianity in honor of John O'Meara (1991); personal knowledge

Forename: John
Surname: O'Meara
Gender: Male
Career: Education, Classics and Languages
Religion: Catholic
Born 18 February 1915 in Co. Galway
Died 12 February 2003 in Co. Dublin

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John J. O'Meara

John J. O'Meara (18 February 1915 – 12 February 2003) was an Irish classical scholar, historian of ancient and medieval philosophy (in particular Augustine and Eriugena), educationalist and writer.

Biography
John J. O'Meara was born in Eyrecourt (Co. Galway) to Mary Donelan and Patrick O'Meara on 18 February 1915, but lost his father when he was less than a year old. He had a younger brother, Patrick ('Paddy'). He was educated at Rockwell College and Garbally, Ballinasloe, becoming for a time a Jesuit seminarist. In his autobiographical book, The Singing Masters, O'Meara describes the hard times of his childhood, including the terror brought by the British Black and Tans, and by the subsequent Irish Civil War. He also describes his early experience of the beauty of nature, and of the difficult experience of following and at last ending his engagement as a Jesuit novice. A collection of short stories, Remembering Eyrecourt. Vignettes and Tales of earlier Days, Eyrecourt 2003, also describes the world of his childhood

O'Meara took an M.A. degree in classics at University College Dublin in 1939 and was awarded a scholarship allowing him to complete a Doctorate in Philosophy at the University of Oxford (1942–45). The Singing Masters also describes war-time Oxford and the antiquated (and quaint) conditions in which he studied there. His thesis concerned Augustine's use of Porphyry and was later revised and published in Paris (1959). Returning to Dublin he was appointed Professor of Latin at University College Dublin in 1948, where he remained until his retirement in 1984. O'Meara held visiting appointments at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Study, Dumbarton Oaks (Harvard University) and Vassar College. In Ireland he played a major role in the effort to modernize education in the schools and universities, in particular the teaching of Latin and Irish, and the collaboration between University College Dublin and Trinity College Dublin. His ideas were ahead of their time in the conservative and Church-dominated atmosphere in Ireland.

O'Meara contributed to the founding of the Irish Association of Classical Teachers in 1959. In 1954 he published The Young Augustine (with many re-editions), an introduction to reading Augustine's Confessions which has kept its value. As well as being a leading internationally recognized scholar on Augustine, he did much to further the study of the early medieval Irish philosopher John Scotus Eriugena, founding the Society for the Promotion of Eriugenian Studies in 1970 which stimulated a spectacular development in the study of Eriugena. He published a monograph on the philosopher, Eriugena (1988), and when he died he was working on finishing a complete edition and English translation of Eriugena's masterpiece, the Periphyseon. O'Meara also published English translations of Latin texts important to Ireland, Giraldus Cambrensis' Topography of Ireland and The Voyage of Saint Brendan. O'Meara was president of the Alliance Française in Ireland and was awarded the Légion d'Honneur. He was a member of the Royal Irish Academy and of other international scholarly associations. In 1947 O'Meara married Odile de Barthes de Montfort, with whom he had three children and with whom he published a little book presenting new discoveries concerning Bernadette of Lourdes (Ordeal at Lourdes).

Select bibliography
A short biography and a bibliography of John O'Meara's publications in: From Augustine to Eriugena: Essays on Neoplatonism and Christianity in Honor of John O'Meara, ed. F. X. Martin and J. A. Richmond, Washington, D. C., 1991, pages ix-xx.
The Topography of Ireland by Giraldus Cambrensis, Dundalk 1951 (also in Penguin Classics)
The Young Augustine: the growth of St. Augustine's mind up to his conversion, London, 1954
Reform in Education, Dublin 1958
Porphyry's philosophy from Oracles in St. Augustine, Paris, 1959
(with Odile de Montfort) Ordeal at Lourdes, Dublin 1959.
Charter of Christendom:the Significance of St. Augustine's city of God, New York City, 1962
The Voyage of Saint Brendan, Dublin 1976 (also Atlantic Highlands 1978).
Eriugena Periphyseon (The Division of Nature), translated by I. P. Sheldon-Williams revised by J. O'Meara, Montréal and Washington, D. C. 1987.
Eriugena, Oxford 1988.
The Singing Masters, Dublin 1990.
Studies in Augustine and Eriugena, edited by T. Halton, Washington, D. C., 1992.
Understanding Augustine, Dublin 1997

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Outspoken and popular classical scholar
JOHN O'MEARA: John J

JOHN O'MEARA: John J. O'Meara, who has died aged 87, was Professor of Latin at University College, Dublin, from 1948 to 1984. A prominent figure in educational circles for almost half a century, he made a remarkable contribution to the development of classical studies in Ireland.

John Joseph O'Meara was born on February 18th 1915, the eldest of the two children of Patrick O'Meara and his wife, Mary (née Donelan), of Eyrecourt, Co Galway. His father died the following year and his mother took over the running of the family business; he and his brother were reared by their aunt.

He was educated at Rockwell College, Cashel, Co Tipperary, where he was drawn to the religious life and transferred to St Joseph's, Garbally, Co Galway, to pursue his vocation.

He later decided to join the Society of Jesus and, as a Jesuit scholastic, studied at UCD for the BA (1938) and MA (1939) in classics. Having studied philosophy at St Stanislaus College, Co Offaly, he taught Latin, Greek and German at Clongowes Wood, Co Kildare. In the early 1940s he studied at Oxford University, taking a doctorate in philosophy.

But doubts about his faith had taken hold and he reluctantly decided after 11 years to leave the Jesuits. In 1945 he started as an assistant in the UCD classics department. Two years later he was appointed to the chair of Latin. His lectures were immensely popular, treating Latin, a former student recalled, "as literature and not merely as a language". He presided or spoke at many student meetings, and students and colleagues were generously entertained in his period house in Sandymount.

A long series of scholarly publications established his reputation as a classicist of the first order. His research was primarily concerned with Eriugena (Johannes Scottus), the most notable of the ninth-century Irish scholars in Europe, whose work had been long neglected. In 1970 he founded the Society for the Promotion of Eriugenian Studies, which has resulted in a wealth of studies.

He himself wrote Eriugena (1988) and translated into English the final two books of the edition of Eriugena's greatest work, Periphyseon (De Divisione Naturae), published by the Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies in 1995.

His reputation was further enhanced by his many works on St Augustine, particularly by The Young Augustine: an introduction to the Confessions of St Augustine (1980). He is known in Ireland for Gerald of Wales's The History and Topography of Ireland and St Brendan's Navigatio. A memoir of his life up to the age of 30, The Singing-Masters, was published in 1990.

He was no stranger to controversy.

He opposed the proposal to move UCD from the centre of Dublin to Belfield. He criticised national policy to revive the Irish language. He advocated that Latin should cease to be a compulsory requirement at university. And his recommendation of a partial merger between UCD and Trinity College, Dublin, was attacked in 1958 by the Archbishop of Armagh, Cardinal D'Alton. His outspokenness almost certainly cost him election to the presidency of UCD in 1964.

On the expiry of his terms of office as a member of the UCD Governing Body and as a senator of the National University, he did not seek re-appointment to either body. When compulsory Latin requirements in church and university were dropped in 1966, his student numbers dropped dramatically.

Increasingly he spent semesters and sabbatical years abroad, including periods at Dumbarton Oaks as a fellow of Harvard and at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Princeton. He built up a wide range of international contacts and his cooperation with leading French scholars was acknowledged by honours that included the Légion d'Honneur.

He played a major role in launching the Hiberno-Latin Dictionary project at the Royal Irish Academy.

His term as chairman of the National College of Art and Design coincided with significant improvements in its facilities and recognition for degree-level courses. He founded the Association of Classical Teachers to raise standards and morale among secondary teachers. Governor for Ireland of the Fondation Européenne de la Culture, he was also a director of Irish University Press.

He had a lifelong interest in music, studying the piano in his youth. He later considered pursuing a career as a singer. Later he was content to play for the entertainment of his grandchildren, "a not unjoyous or useless occupation".

He is survived by his wife, Odile de Barthès de Montfort, son Dominique, and daughters Caitriona (Brennan) and Odile (Ryan).

John O'Meara: born, 18th February; died, February 12th 2003

Born: 25 December 1899, Bride Street, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 20 November 1916, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 10 August 1929 (from Heythrop - Theology - Ordination was postponed)

Father was an employee of Duffy & Sons, Westmoreland Street, Dublin, publishers, and died in 1908. Mother was then supported by eldest sister who is a National Teacher.

Fourth eldest of a family of six (4 boys and 2 girls of whom 2 boys and 1 girl are deceased

Early education was at a local National School and at 7 years of age went to Synge Street). When his father died he was sent to the O’Brien Institute, Grace Park Road, Marino, Dublin (1909-1916).

1916-1918: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Novitiate
1918-1920: Rathfarnham Castle, Juniorate
1920-1923: Clongowes Wood College SJ, Regency
1923-1926: Milltown Park, Philosophy
1926-1929: Heythrop, Oxfordshire (ANG) studying Theology

Born: 17 June 1906, Bray, County Wicklow
Entered: 31 August 1922, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 21 July 1936

1922-1924: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Novitiate
1924-1927: Rathfarnham Castle, Juniorate UCD
1927-1930 at Berchmanskolleg, Pullach, Germany (GER S) studying Philosophy
1930-1933: Belvedere College SJ, Regency
1933-1936: Clongowes Wood College SJ, Regency

Address following departure: Alexandra Terrace, Novara Road, Bray, County Wicllow

Born: 25 February 1900,
Entered: 01 September 1919, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 05 August 1924 (from Milltown Park)

1919-1921: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Novitiate
1921-1923: Rathfarnham Castle, Juniorate
1923-1924: Milltown Park, Philosophy

Born: 09 May 1872, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 13 August 1887, Loyola House, Dromore, County Down / St Stanislaus, Tullabeg, County Offaly
Died: 09 December 1913, Waterloo Road, Dublin, County Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 1902

Was NOWLAN then from 1898 : O’NOWLAN

by 1898 at Stonyhurst England (ANG) studying

Born: 19 September 1884, The Square, Listowel, County Kerry
Entered: 12 November 1901, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly
Ordained: 18 December 1955, Blackrock College CSSp, Blackrock, County Dublin
Died: 01 August 1969, St Michael’s Nursing Home, Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 02 May 1914

Known when Jesuit as Alfred J Rahilly.

Father was Clerk at the Petty Sessions to three districts, flour agent, Insurance and Emigration Agent, and died February 1899.

Mother then lived at Ballybunion, County Kerry. Had four brothers and ten sisters (1 brother and sister deceased)

Educated at local Convent and St Michael’s College, Listowel and then went to Blackrock College CSSp

1901-1903: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, , Novitiate
1903-1905: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, studying
1905-1908: University College, studying
1908-1911: Stonyhurst England (ANG) studying Philosophy
1911-1913: St Ignatius, Leeson Street, teaching and research (at British Museum, London)
1913-1914: Milltown Park, studying Theology

Married Agnes in 1916 with two children. Ordained priest 18/12/1955 by Archbishop McQuaid at Blackrock College after the death of his wife and his retirement from UCC. Lived as a secular priest at Blackrock College CSSp. Created Monsignor in 1960. He was buried at Kimmage Manor in the Spiritans graveyard. In his will he left his theologial library to the Society of Jesus at Milltown Park, and his other books to Blackrock College.

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O'Rahilly, Alfred

Contributed by
Murphy, John A.

O'Rahilly, Alfred (1884–1969), scholar, university president, controversialist, and priest, was born 19 September 1884 in Listowel, Co. Kerry, eighth child of Thomas Francis Rahilly and Julia Mary Rahilly (née Curry); he changed his name to ‘O'Rahilly’ by deed poll in 1920. His fourteen siblings included Celtic scholars Thomas Francis (qv) and Cecile (qv), and a first cousin was The O'Rahilly (qv), killed during the 1916 rising. Educated at St Michael's College, Listowel, Blackrock College, and UCD, he underwent a long period (1901–14) of training as a member of the Society of Jesus, but eventually left during the final stages of preparation for the priesthood, because of temperamental unsuitability. Appointed an assistant lecturer in mathematics and mathematical physics at UCC in October 1914, he became the dominant figure in the institution within six years. He became professor of mathematical physics on 1 June 1917 and registrar on 11 February 1920, and vacated these offices when he became president (1943–54).

His early career in UCC was set against the background of the revolutionary period, and he became predominantly identified, within and without the college, with the rise of post-1916 Sinn Féin. In UCC he led the nationalist interest that ousted the perceived pro-British old regime, personified by Sir Bertram Windle (qv), who resigned from the presidency in 1919. O'Rahilly was flamboyant, extrovert, disputatious and dynamic. During the low-key, unassertive presidency (1919–43) of P. J. Merriman, O'Rahilly as registrar was heir-presumptive and acted as de facto president. All in all, the whirlwind age of O'Rahilly lasted for almost four decades.

He was a volatile and bristling polymath of inexhaustible energy: the vast range of his scholarly interests – politics, sociology, finance, Christology, mathematical physics, history – aroused astonishment and envy. One critique of his work on Money ended with the reflection that the book would enable people to relieve rural tedium by laughing the winter nights away. His contemplated multi-volume life of Christ prompted a National University colleague to observe (not very originally) that a life of O'Rahilly by Christ would be much more interesting. O'Rahilly, who was vain but not stuffy, was not offended by such descriptions of him as ‘a cross between Thomas Aquinas and Jimmy O'Dea’ (qv), but was not pleased by the jibe that he had the best mind of the twelfth century, since he considered himself a very modern man indeed. But he would not have taken exception to the waggish description of the Holy Shroud of Turin (the subject of his province-wide lectures) as ‘Alfie's flying carpet’.

There were some negative and even frivolous aspects of his UCC presidency. He had a strong appetite for the hurly-burly of academic politics and, it was said, entered no controversy that he did not aggravate. He had the reputation of being a bully and exploiter in his dealings with junior academic staff; but he could be kind, helpful, and extraordinarily generous to staff and students with problems. His zeal for vigorously promoting a Roman catholic ethos in a nominally pluralist institution was frequently paternalistic and extended to acts of petty supervision, particularly perhaps over women students. This was the kind of atmosphere that prompted a visiting examiner to describe the UCC of the 1940s as ‘a convent run by a mad reverend mother’.

All this being said, O'Rahilly was one of the most vibrant and effective presidents in the history of the National University. His initiatives included extensive improvements in the library, of which he was director, and the institution of student health and restaurant services. He founded the electrical engineering department and the Cork University Press, which he believed would provide a publication outlet for the researches of his colleagues, particularly those concerned with native learning. He strengthened UCC's links with the city and the province, and these were significantly expressed through the provision of adult education courses, an area where O'Rahilly was particularly innovative and pioneering.

As a young academic, he had become caught up in the struggle for independence. He served on Cork corporation in the heroic age of Tomás Mac Curtáin (qv) and Terence MacSwiney (qv), and spent a patriotic period in jail and on the run. He represented Cork borough (1923–4) in Dáil Éireann for Cumann na nGaedheal but resigned his seat in 1924. He was a constitutional adviser to the Irish delegation at the treaty negotiations in 1921, argued publicly for the acceptance of the treaty, and helped to draft the constitution of the Irish Free State. His links with the local labour and trade-union movement were long and close, and at national level he served as Irish government chief representative in successive sessions of the International Labour Conference in Geneva. He was also a member of government commissions on banking and vocational organisation. After retirement he went to reside at Blackrock College, where he was ordained a priest (18 December 1955), and became a domestic prelate (monsignor) in 1960. O'Rahilly died 2 August 1969. He married (4 September 1916) his first cousin, Agnes O'Donoghue (d. 14 September 1953); they had two children, Ronan and Sybil.

No other layman of his day so self-confidently assumed a central role in so many areas of catholic life – philosophy, sociology, theology, scriptural studies. The controversies in which be became involved were a source of interest and pride to UCC students. Their president was a pugnacious polemicist (who jousted with such eminences as H. G. Wells and Bernard Shaw (qv)), a man of stature, and a formidable catholic intellectual. And who could not be impressed, as well as entertained, by his exuberant claim: ‘I have not now the smallest doubt that I have Einstein refuted’?

Sources
J. Anthony Gaughan, Alfred O'Rahilly (4 vols, 1986–93); John A. Murphy, The College: a history of Queen's/ University College Cork 1845–1995 (1995)

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Alfred O'Rahilly

Alfred O'Rahilly, KSG (1 October 1884 – 1 August 1969) was an academic with controversial views on both electromagnetism and religion. He briefly served in politics, as a Teachta Dála (TD) for Cork City, and was later the president of University College Cork. He also became a priest following the death of his wife.

Education and academia
Born (with the last name Rahilly) in Listowel, County Kerry, Ireland to Thomas Francis Rahilly of Ballylongford, County Kerry and Julia Mary Rahilly (née Curry) of Glin, County Limerick. He was first educated at St Michael's College, Listowel[1] and at Blackrock College in Dublin. O'Rahilly first earned University College Cork degrees in mathematical physics (BA 1907, MA 1908).

The O'Rahilly Building (left) houses UCC’s Humanities Faculty.
He studied scholastic philosophy at Stonyhurst College in Lancashire following his master's degree, then returned to UCC for a BSc (1912). In 1914, he was appointed assistant lecturer in the Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Physics at UCC, and then in 1917 he was made Professor of Mathematical Physics.

In 1919 he received a doctorate from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. He became Registrar of UCC in 1920, and held the post until 1943 when he became President of the University. O'Rahilly founded Cork University Press in 1925. He spent a year, in 1927, at Harvard studying social and political theory.

In 1938, he published a controversial book surveying electromagnetic theory called Electromagnetics (Longman, Green and Company), republished in 1956 by Dover as Electromagnetic theory, a critical examination of fundamentals.

In 1939, UCC conferred on him the degree D.Litt., and in 1940 the National University of Ireland awarded him a DSc.

The O'Rahilly Building was one of the major developments on the UCC campus in the 1990s and was named in honour of O'Rahilly.[2]

Politics and public life
After the 1916 Easter Rising, O'Rahilly publicly supported Sinn Féin and was elected to Cork City Council as a Sinn Féin and Transport Workers candidate. Arrested early in 1921 for political writings, O'Rahilly was interned in Spike Island prison.

Released in October 1921 he was constitutional adviser to the Irish Treaty Delegation. O'Rahilly supported the Anglo-Irish Treaty and in 1922 he composed a draft constitution for the Irish Free State with Darrell Figgis.

O'Rahilly led Irish delegations to the International Labour Organization conferences in 1924, 1925 and 1932, and took on a conciliatory role in trade union and employers disputes in Munster. As President of University College Cork, he initiated workers' education courses in the university in the late 1940s which proved popular with Cork trade unionists.[citation needed]

Standing as a candidate in Cork Borough for Cumann na nGaedheal, he was elected to the 4th Dáil at the 1923 general election.[3] He resigned in 1924,[4] causing a by-election later that year which was won by the Cumann na nGaedheal candidate Michael Egan.

Religion
A deeply religious Catholic from early life, O'Rahilly was a member of the Society of Jesus but left before ordination and was dispensed from his vows. He maintained his (sometimes controversial) religious views throughout his life, and became a priest, and then Monsignor, in later years following the death of his wife. He wrote a biography of Willie Doyle. He also contributed to The Irish Catholic weekly newspaper.

In 1954, Pope Pius XII conferred on him the Pontifical Order of Saint Gregory the Great.

He was also an advisor on university education to the Archbishop of Dublin John Charles McQuaid and sat on an informal committee from 1950. The committee included O'Rahilly, and the other presidents of the National University of Ireland; Michael Tierney of UCD, Monsignor Pádraig de Brún, Cardinal D'Alton, and Bishops Cornelius Lucey of Cork and Michael Browne of Galway.

Science
In O'Rahilly's major survey of electromagnetic theory, Electromagnetics (1938),[5] he opposed Maxwell's dominant (British) theory of the electromagnetic field and followed the French Catholic physicist, historian of science, and philosopher of science Pierre Duhem in rejecting Maxwell's field account.[6] As a logical consequence of his rejection of Maxwell, O'Rahilly also rejected Albert Einstein's theory of relativity. O'Rahilly embraced Ritz's ballistic theory of light and Ritz's electrodynamics.[7] While Ritz's theory reduces to Coulomb's Law and Ampere's Law, since its derivation is phenomenological, it differs from the Liénard–Wiechert potential. O'Rahilly also wrote against applying the theory of evolution to human society.

Because O'Rahilly thought Cork lacked a social science curriculum he volunteered to teach courses in economics and sociology. When told that they could not spare him from the physics courses, he volunteered to teach an economics course and sociology course along with his physics courses.

Family
His brother T. F. O'Rahilly was a Celtic languages scholar and academic, noted for his contribution to the fields of historical linguistics and Irish dialects.[8] His sister Cecile O'Rahilly was also a Celtic scholar, and published editions of both recensions of the Táin Bó Cúailnge and worked with her brother in the School of Celtic Studies at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.[9]

His first cousin The O'Rahilly was one of the founding members of the Irish Volunteers and died in the Easter Rising.[10]

Writings
O'Rahilly's writings include: Father William Doyle, S.J. (1920, 4th ed. 1930), Flour, Wheat and Tariffs (1928), Money (1941), Jewish Burial: The Burial of Christ (1941), Religion and Science (1948), Aquinas versus Marx (1948), Moral Principles (1948), Social Principles (1948), The Family at Bethany (1949), Moral and Social Principles (1955), Gospel Meditations (1958) and Electromagnetic Theory (2 vols, 1965).

Father William Doyle S.J. (1922)
Electromagnetics: A Discussion of Fundamentals (1938)
References
J. Anthony Gaughan, Alfred O'Rahilly Biography (Kingdom Books, 1986) (ISBN 0-9506015-6-X)
"O' Rahilly Building Extension and Quadrangle". University College Cork. Archived from the original on 6 June 2014. Retrieved 10 October 2020.
"Alfred O'Rahilly". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 20 May 2012.
"Alfred O'Rahilly". Oireachtas Members Database. Retrieved 20 May 2012.
Worldcat entry for "Electromagnetic theory, a critical examination of fundamentals" - First edition published in 1938 under title: "Electromagnetics"
See Pierre Duhem: Against "Cartesian Method": Metaphysics and Models from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy for why Duhem rejected Maxwell's theory.
For a short description of O'Rahilly's criticism of the special theory of relativity, see this section of Challenging Modern Physics by Al Kelly
Murphy, John A. "O'Rahilly, Alfred". Dictionary of Irish Biography. Retrieved 19 June 2022.
Ní Mhunghaile, Lesa. "O'Rahilly (Ní Rathaille, Ó Rathaille), Cecile (Sisile)". Dictionary of Irish Biography. (ed.) James McGuire, James Quinn. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Breathnach, Diarmuid; Ní Mhurchú, Máire. "Ó RATHGHAILLE, Micheál Seosamh (1875–1916)". Ainm. Retrieved 27 December 2020.

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Alfred O'Rahilly

Alfred O’Rahilly MA DPhil DSc KSG, President, University College Cork, 1943-54

Alfred O’Rahilly, was born in September 1884[1] in Listowel, Co. Kerry, the son of Thomas F. Rahilly, clerk of petty sessions, and his wife Julia M. Curry. He changed his surname by deed poll in 1920 to ‘O’Rahilly’.[2] He was educated at St Michael’s College, Listowel, and at Blackrock College, Dublin.[3] O’Rahilly was awarded a BA (1907), MA in Mathematical and Experimental Physics (1908) by the Royal University of Ireland. He then entered Stonyhurst College, Lancashire, England, where he is an resident at the time of the 1911 census. At Stonyhurst, he studied at St Mary’s Hall, where he attended a three-year course in scholastic philosophy in the Jesuit novitiate for which he was awarded the papal degree of DPhil.[4] O’Rahilly then gained a BSc (1912) at University College, Dublin. In 1914 he was appointed assistant lecturer in the Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Physics at UCC, and made full Professor of Mathematical Physics in June 1917. He became Registrar of the college in February 1920, and held the post until 1943 when he became President. He spent a year, in 1927, at Harvard University studying social and political theory. On his return, he persuaded the Governing Body to establish a lectureship in sociology, which he took on without salary.[5] The National University of Ireland conferred on him the honorary degree DLitt in 1939 and, in the following year, his work on Electromagnetics obtained for him the degree DSc.

After the 1916 Easter Rising, O’Rahilly publicly supported Sinn Féin and was elected to Cork City Council as a Sinn Féin and Transport Workers candidate. Arrested early in 1921 for his political writings, O’Rahilly was interned in Spike Island prison in Cork harbour. Released in October 1921 he was constitutional adviser to the Irish Treaty Delegation. O’Rahilly supported the Anglo-Irish Treaty and in 1922 he composed a draft constitution for the Irish Free State. O’Rahilly led Irish delegations to the International Labour Organization conferences in 1924, 1925 and 1932, and took on conciliatory role in trade union and employers disputes in Munster. Standing as a candidate in Cork Borough for Cumann na nGaedheal, he was elected to the 4th Dail at the 1923 general election but did not go for re-election in 1924.[6] As representative of the Irish Government, he attended the Sixteenth Session of the International Labour Conference at Geneva in 1932.[7] He was a member of the Banking Commission and, from 1923, Chairman of the Cork Arbitration Board, where he was prominent in the settlement of industrial disputes. In this latter role he was active in securing compensation for the loss of employment suffered by the workers of the Cork Electric Tramways and Lighting Company, for which work some of the tramway men of the city presented him with 'The Tramway Cup' in 1933.

O’Rahilly had a dominant personality and was a prolific scholar, polymath, controversialist and public figure. His UCC initiatives included improvements in his role as Director of the Library, the institution of student health and restaurant services, and the acquisition of the extensive former County Gaol site which made significant building expansion possible. Other innovations included the foundation of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Cork University Press in 1925 (which he handed over to the College in 1928)[8] and UCC’s second in-house magazine, Cork University Record, in 1944. O’Rahilly strengthened College links with the city and the province, particularly in adult education courses. He instituted a diploma in Social Science, the first diplomate was Seán Casey who was later a TD for Cork city and Lord Mayor.[9] He published prolifically, often on issues relating to religion and politics.

Alfred O’Rahilly married Agnes O’Donoghue on 4 September 1916 at Rathmines, Dublin. They had two children. She died on 14 September 1953.[10] He retired from the presidency of UCC in October 1954 and moved to Blackrock College (Holy Ghost Fathers), Dublin, where he was ordained as a member of the order on 18 December 1955, aged 71. He remained at Blackrock, becoming a monsignor in 1960. O’Rahilly died at St Michael’s nursing home, Dún Laoghaire, on 2 August 1969. He is buried in the community cemetery in the grounds of Kimmage Manor, headquarters of the Holy Ghost Fathers.[11] O’Rahilly left his theological library to the Jesuits at Milltown Park; in 2019 the Milltown Park library was transferred to Dublin City University;[12] his other books were given to Blackrock College.

In 1998 the new Business and Languages building, named the Alfred O’Rahilly Building, was opened by Micheál Martin, Minister for Education (a UCC graduate).[13] O’Rahilly’s tenure as Director of the Library is remembered in the relief created by Séamus Murphy RHA that is on display in the Boole Library.

Born: 18 July 1902, Galway City, County Galway
Entered: 31 August 1920, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 03 August 1932 (from Milltown Park Dublin, studying theology)

Mother died in 1910. Father died in 1912

Educated Mercy Convent Galway and then at the Presentation Sisters school. After his mother died he went to the Christian Brothers in Galway.. Then his father died and his Uncle, Rev SJ Nestor of the Galway diocese was made his guardian (Ennistymon, County Clare). He sent him with his two younger brothers to the Sisters of the Sacred Heart in Banagher. After two years there he was sent to Blackrock College for one year and then to Mungret College SJ in 1915.

1920-1922: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Novitiate
1922-1923: Montée de Fourvière, Lyon France (LUGD) studying
1923-1924: Rathfarnham Castle, Juniorate
1924-1927: Milltown Park, Philosophy
1927-1931: St Ignatius College Riverview, Sydney - Regency
1931-1932: Milltown Park, Theology

Born: 07 June 1921, Ferrmanagh Road, Clones, County Monaghan
Entered: 07 September 1939, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 25 February 1947 (on health grounds)

Parents, Bernard and Brigid (Kelly) were shopkeepers. Family lived after 1930 at Ben Vista, Omagh, County Tyrone.

One of six boys and five girls.

Early education was in Clones at Convent and National schools. In 1931 the family move to Omagh, County Tyrone, and he went to the Christian Brothers elementary school, and then the secondary school.

Baptised at Sacred Heart, Clones, County Monaghan, 10/06/1921
Confirmed at Sacred Heart, Clones, 07/06/1931

1939-1941: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, , Novitiate
1941-1944: Rathfarnham Castle, Juniorate
1944-1947: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Philosophy

Six months after leaving he got a job in Omagh Technical School for three years. Health considerations meant he had to resign.

Born: 24 June 1901, Frederick Street, Limerick City, County Limerick
Entered: 23 September 1920, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly
Died: 19 August 1974, Woodville Terrace, Clonmel, County Tipperary

Left Society of Jesus: 28 May 1926 (from Milltown Park, Dublin)

Father Daniel O’Sullivan, Mother Bridget (O’Halloran)

Was in the Redemptorist Juniorate before joining.

1920-1922: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Novitiate
1922-1924: Rathfarnham Castle, Juniorate
1924-1926: Milltown Park, Philosophy

Became a Secondary school teacher and taught at Rockwell College and CBS High School, Clonmel, County Tipperary

Born: 27 March 1963, Bridge Street, Ballylongford, County Kerry
Entered: 26 September 1985, Manresa House, Dollymount, Dublin
Died: 04h October 2022, Clonard Village, Wexford Town, County Wexford

Left Society of Jesus: 1998

Educated at Clongowes Wood College SJ

Regency at Belvedere College SJ

by 1993 at Cambridge MA, USA (NEN) studying

Address 2000: Farmhill Road, Goatstown, Dublin City

https://rip.ie/death-notice/david-osullivan-wexford-wexford-town-491641

The death has occurred of

David O'Sullivan
Clonard Village, Wexford Town, Wexford / Ballylongford, Kerry
David passed away peacefully at home, after a long illness borne with dignity and bravery in the loving care of his family and the Wexford Palliative Care Team. Beloved and devoted husband of Anne and loving father to Catherine and son-in-law to May, special brother to Tice, Mary-Rose and Paul, and beloved of brother-in-law of Steve, Niamh and Nancy, Billy, Caitriona and John. Beloved uncle to Hannah, Sarah, Evanne, Emelyn, Andrew, Cian, Tara, Barry, David, Eimer, Claire, Ciara, Henry, Hugh & Guy. Deeply regretted by his colleagues and pupils at Presentation Secondary School Wexford and his wider family circle and many friends.

Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam dílis.

Reposing at Macken's Funeral Home, Distillery Road, Wexford (Y35 T1K2), on Thursday (6th October) from 4pm leaving for the church at 6:30pm. Requiem Mass on Friday (7th October) in The Church of the Annunciation, Clonard, Wexford (Y35 YV0F) at 10am, with burial afterwards in Enniscorthy cemetery.

Date Published:
Tuesday 4th October 2022

Date of Death:
Tuesday 4th October 2022

Born: 23 February 1915, Parnell Street, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 07 September 1933, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Died: 2001, Harare, Zimbabwe

Left Society of Jesus: 05 October 1945

Father, Philip, was a butcher in Parnell Street and he died in 1919. Mother was Mary (McGee). Family resided at Belvedere Avenue, North Circular Road Dublin. Mother resided after father’s death at Parnell Street, Dublin, supported by the butcher’s shop which was managed by the eldest brother.

Third of six boys.

Educated at a preparatory school and O’Connells school and then he went to Mungret College SJ

Baptised at St Agatha’s North William Street, 26/02/1915
Conformed at St Agatha’s North William Street by Dr Byrne of Dublin, 15/02/1927

1933-1935: St Mary's, Emo, , Novitiate
1935-1938: Rathfarnham Castle, Juniorate, UCD
1938-1941: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Philosophy
1941-1943: Mungret College SJ, Regency
1943-1944: Clongowes Wood College SJ, Regency
1944-1945: Milltown Park, Theology

Reported (1973) to be married and living in Yorkshire

Address 2000: Ridgeway South, Harare, Zimbabwe

Born: 06 April 1913, Parnell Street, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 14 September 1931, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 12 May 1939

Father, Philip, was a butcher in Parnell Street and he died in 1919. Mother was Mary (McGee). Family resided at Belvedere Avenue, North Circular Road Dublin. Mother resided after father’s death at Parnell Street, Dublin, supported by the butcher’s shop which was managed by the eldest brother.

He is the fourth of seven boys.

Early education was at a private school for six years, he then went to O’Connell’s School for eight years.

Baptised at St Agatha’s North William Street, 08/04/1913
Confirmed at St Agatha’s North William Street by Dr Byrne of Dublin in March 1925

1931-1933: St Mary's, Emo, , Novitiate
1933-1936: Rathfarnham Castle, Juniorate, UCD
1936-1939: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Philosophy

After leaving he looked after the butcher’s shop in Parnell Street, but sold that and went into property investment successfully.

By 1972 he was married with three sons.

RIP by 2000

Address 2000: Mount Prospect Avenue, Clontarf, Dublin City

Born: 10 August 1730, Ireland
Entered: 07 September 1747, Watten, Belgium - Angliae Province (ANG)

Left Society of Jesus: 1754

◆ In Chronological Catalogue Sheet as “Plunket” Ent 07/09/1747

◆ Old/15 (1) has “Plunkett” Ent 04/09/1747 and in pencil (31) Dismissed 1752

◆ Catholic Record Society, Volume 70, 1981
The English Jesuits, 1650-1829: A Biographical Dictionary
by Geoffrey Holt

Plunkett, Arthur. Scholastic.
b. August 10th, 1730, in Ireland.
?s. of Robert, 6th Earl of Fingall and Mary (Magenis).
e. St Omers College 1741-7.
S.J. September 7th, 1747.
Watten (nov) 1747-9.
Liège (phil) 1750.
Liège (theol) 1752, 1753.
Left 1754, not ordained.

(Fo.7; CRS.69; 91; 113).

◆ CATSJ I-Y has “Plunkett”; DOB 10/08/1673 (??); Ent 04/09/1747 Watten; Dismissed 1752

◆ Fr Edmund Hogan SJ “Catalogica Chronologica” :
Two Entries

DOB 10/08/1730 Ireland; Ent 07/09/1749 Watten; LEFT 1754

◆ MacErlean Cat Miss HIB SJ 1670-1770
1749 ANG Cat
Novitiate Watten
“Arthurus Plunkett”
Born 10/081730 Irish
Entered 07/09/1747
Novice

Dismissed 1754

◆ Henry Foley - Records of the English province of The Society of Jesus Vol VII
PLUNKETT, ARTHUR, born in Ireland, August 10, 1730; entered the Society at Watten, September 7, 1747, and left it in 1754.

Born: 21 January 1868, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 13 February 1886, Loyola House, Dromore, County Down

Left Society of Jesus: 1892

1886-1888: Loyola House, Dromore, County Down, Novitiate
1888-1892: Milltown Park, Dublin, Rhetoric then Philosophy

Born: 13 November 1842, Naples, Italy
Entered: 05 October 1859, Novitiate, Naples, Italy - Neapolitanae Province (NAP)

Left Society of Jesus: 1865

1895-1860: Novitiate, Naples, Italy (NAP)
1860-1861: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly (HIB), Novitiate
1861-1863: Aix-les-Bains, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France (LUGD), Rhetoric
1863-1864: Aix-les-Bains, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France (LUGD), Philosophy
1864-1865: Caring for health out of community

Born: 28 October 1917, Mount Vincent View, O'Connell Avenue, Limerick City, County Limerick
Entered: 07 September 1935, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 19 September 1947

Father was a postal clerk.

Third of four boys with two sisters.

Educated at a local Convent school and then at Crescent College SJ (1927-1933).

Born: 08 March 1930, Ballina, County Mayo
Entered: 07 September 1948, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Died: 25 October 2019, Ivy Lodge, Main Street, Saugerties, NY, USA

Left Society of Jesus: 16 April 1953

Father, Michael Patrick, was a commercial traveller and business man. Mother was Anne (Daly). Family lived at Emmet Square, Birr, County Offaly.

Elder of two boys with two half brothers and three sisters. Father married twice. Half brother was a priest in France.

Early education was first at a Convent school in Birr, and then at the Presentation Brothers school also in Birr for eleven years. Finally at Mungret College SJ

Baptised at St Muredach's Cathedral, Ballina, 11/03/1930
Confirmed at St Brendan’s, Birr by Dr Fogarty of Killaloe, 12/04/1942

1948-1950: St Mary's, Emo, , Novitiate
1950-1953: Rathfarnham Castle, Juniorate, UCD

Address 2000: Brendenwood Road, Rockford, IL, USA

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/recordonline/name/michael-quinn-obituary?id=14532405

Michael Quinn Obituary
Michael P. Quinn
March 8, 1930 - October 25, 2019
New Paltz, NY
Michael P. Quinn, 89 of New Paltz, passed away peacefully on Friday, October 25, 2019 at Ivy Lodge in Saugerties, NY. Born March 8, 1930 in Ballina, Mayo County, Ireland, he was the son of the late Michael and Anne (Daly) Quinn.
On August 13, 1956, in Cloghan, in the county of Offaly in Ireland, he married Teresa McCabe. They had 54 years together before her passing on October 3, 2009.
Michael earned his Bachelor of Art Degree from the University of Dublin and earned his Master's Degree at Loyola University in Maryland. He taught English Literature and Poetry at Rock Valley College in Rockford, IL, from 1965 until his retirement in 1997 and was chair of the English Department. Michael was a devoted parishioner of St. Joseph's Church in New Paltz.
In addition to his parents and wife, he was predeceased by his son, Paul Quinn.
He is survived by one daughter, Marian Quinn and her husband, Tommy Weir of Dublin, Ireland, and three sons: Declan Quinn and his wife, Edda, Aidan Quinn and his wife, Elizabeth and Robert Quinn; his grandchildren: Jack, Liam, Mae, Stella, Sarah, Alice, Rae, Ava, and Mia.
Visitation will be held from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Monday, October 28, 2019 at Copeland-Hammerl Funeral Home, 162 South Putt Corners Road, New Paltz, NY. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated after the visitation, at St. Joseph's Church, 34 South Chestnut Street, New Paltz, NY, and beginning at 1 p.m. The Rite of Committal will follow at St. Charles Cemetery, Routes 44/55, Gardiner, NY.

Born: 29 June 1859, Hong Kong
Entered: 31 August 1876, Poyanne Spain - Castellanae Province (CAST)

Left Society of Jesus: 1881

1876-1877: Poyanne, Spain (CAST), Novitiate - as Florian Rangel Aires
1877-1878: Milltown Park, Dublin (HIB), Novitiate - as Ignatius Rangel
1878-1880: Drongen, Belgium (BELG), Rhetoric
1880-1881: Milltown Park, Dublin (HIB), Philosophy - as Ignatius Rangel

Born: 26 April 1913, Keadue, Boyle, County Roscommon
Entered: 16 November 1931, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 10 August 1938

Father (John) was a doctor. Mother was Brigid (Dolan).

Third of four boys with four sisters.

Early education was eight years at a National School and then he went to Mungret College SJ (1927-1931).

Baptised at Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Kilronan, Keadue, 02/05/1913
Confirmed at Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Kilronan, Keadue in May 1925

1931-1933: St Mary's, Emo, , Novitiate
1933-1936: Rathfarnham Castle, Juniorate, UCD
1936-1938: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Philosophy

After leaving opened a school called Kostka College in Clontarf

Address 1973, Howth Road, Dublin
Address 2000 & 1991: Leeson Village, Ranelagh, Dublin City

Born: 06 January 1713, Ireland
Entered: 11 August 1738, Bordeaux, France

Left Society of Jesus: 1744

◆ In Chronological Catalogue Sheet as Ent 14/08/1743

◆ Old/15 (1) has in pencil (29) Ent 1738 RIP after 1746
Old/15 (1) has Ent 14/08/1743

◆ CATSJ I-Y has DOB 06/01/1723 Irish; Ent 14/08/1743 or 14/08/1738;
1743-1746 At Bordeaux College teaching Grammar

Bernard Routh says he was born in France of Irish parents (MS p99 and Exaten Vol V p75) - does this refer to Ronan or Routh himself??, as he was born abroad himself at Speyer Dioc is mentioned first beside Ronan

◆ MacErlean Cat Miss HIB SJ 1670-1770
1743 AQUIT Cat
Collegium Bordeaux
“Thomas Ronan”
Born 17/01/1723 Irish
Entered 14/08/1738
Studied Philosophy 2; Teaching Grammar 1

Born: 20 March 1855, County Kilkenny
Entered: 29 January 1878, Milltown Park, Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 26 October 1884

Educated at St Kieran’s College, Kilkenny

1878-1880: Milltown Park, Dublin, Novitiate
1880-1881: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Regency
1881-1883: Clongowes Wood College SJ, Regency
1883-1884: Oña Spain (ARA) studying Philosophy

Born: 5 October 1815, County Cork
Entered: 20 September 1833, Hodder, Stonyhurst College SJ, Lancashire, England - Angliae Province (ANG)

Left Society of Jesus: 20 June 1839

1833-1835: Hodder, Stonyhurst College SJ, Lancashire, England (ANG), Novitiate
1835-1837: St Mary’s Hall, Stonyhurst College SJ, Lancashire, England, Rhetoric and Physics
1837-1839: St Stanislaus College SJ, Tullabeg, County Offaly, Regency

Born: 17 August 1844, Naples, Italy
Entered: 26 September 1859, Naples Italy (NAP)

Left Society of Jesus: 1870

1859-1860: Naples Italy (NAP), Novitiate
1860-1861: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly (HIB), Novitiate
1861-1864: Aix-les-Bains, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France (LUGD), Rhetoric, Philosophy from 1863
1864-1866: Deusto College, Bilbao, Spain (ARA), Philosophy
1866-1867: Novitiate, Balaguer, Catalonia, Spain (ARA), Regency
1867-1868: Seminary, Canary Islands, Spain (ARA) Regency
1868-1870: St Joseph’s College, Avignon, France (LUGD), Regency

Born: 22 January 1728, Ireland
Entered: 07 September 1747, Watten, Belgium (ANG)

Left Society of Jesus: 1754

◆ The English Jesuits 1650-1829 Geoffrey Holt SJ : Catholic Record Society 1984
Born 22/01/1728 from Ireland
Entered 07/09/1747 Watten
1752-1754 Liège Philosophy
LEFT 1754

◆ Catholic Record Society, Volume 70, 1981
The English Jesuits, 1650-1829: A Biographical Dictionary
by Geoffrey Holt

Shelley, John. Scholastic.
b. January 22nd, 1728. From Ireland.
S.J. September 7th, 1747.
Watten (nov) 1747, 1749.
Liège (phil) 1752, 1753.
Left 1754, not ordained.

(113; 91).

◆ MacErlean Cat Miss HIB SJ 1670-1770
1749 ANG Cat
Novitiate Watten
“John Shelley”
Born 22/01/1728 Irish
Entered 07/09/1747
Novice

Dismissed 1754

Born: 28 February 1793, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 07 September 1811, Clongowes Wood College SJ, County Kildare

Left Society of Jesus: by 1829

1811-1819: Clongowes Wood College SJ, County Kildare, Novitiate
1815-1819: St Mary’s Hall, Stonyhurst College SJ, Lancashure, England (ANG), Rhetoric and Philosophy
1819-1823: Clongowes Wood College SJ, County Kildare, Regency
1823-1826: Clongowes Wood College SJ, County Kildare, Theology

◆ Fr Edmund Hogan SJ “Catalogica Chronologica” :
Loose leaf note in CatChrn : Entitled “Left Stonyhurst for Castle Brown”
23 Oct 1815

Born: 22 January 1728, Ireland
Entered: 07 September 1747, Watten, Belgium - Angliae Province (ANG)
Died: post 1754

Left Society of Jesus: 1754

◆ In Chronological Catalogue Sheet as Ent 07/09/1747

◆ Old/15 (1) has in pencil (31) Ent 07/09/1747 RIP after 1754

◆ CATSJ I-Y has “Shelly”; DOB 22/01/1728; Ent 07/09/1747;
Dismissus 1754

◆ MacErlean Cat Miss HIB SJ 1670-1770
1749 ANG Cat
Novitiate Watten
“Joannes Shelley”
Born 22/01/1728 Irish
Entered 07/09/1747
Novice

(Dismissus 1754)

Born: 17 June 1900, Tralee, County Kerry
Entered: 26 September 1921, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 15 June 1927

Born: 18 March 1962, Churchtown, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 25 September 1980, Manresa House, Dollymount, Dublin
Died: 18 August 2019, Galway Cheshire Homes, Merlin Park Lane, Curraghagrean, Galway City, County Galway (Roscahill, County Galway)

Left Society of Jesus: 1986

Address 2000 & 1991: The Manse, Hollymount, Claremorris, County Mayo & Lower Churchtown Road, Churchtown, Dublin City, County Dublin

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/frank-stapleton-obituary-pioneering-irish-film-maker-1.4002362

Frank Stapleton
Born: March 18th, 1962
Died: August 18th, 2019

Frank Stapleton, prolific writer and talented film director has died following a long illness. Stapleton was a leading light in Irish filmmaking in the 1980s and 1990s before his career was cut short by the onset of multiple sclerosis.

The Whole World in His Hands, an award winning documentary filmed 10 years after Pope John Paul II’s visit to Ireland in 1979, Dr Brown Also Spoke, a polemic documentary with Dr Noel Browne (Minister for Health from 1948-1951) and Michael D Higgins and The Fifth Province (1997) were his best known films.

The Fifth Province which was about a frustrated writer living the rain-soaked Midlands, won Best First Feature at the Galway Film Fleadh and the Audience Prize at the Fantasporto Film Festival in Porto, Portugal. Stapleton worked with Michael D Higgins on a number of film proposals and his film crew made a documentary with Higgins at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro called, 12 Days to Save the World.

Frank Stapleton grew up in Churchtown, Dublin with one older and one younger brother. He attended Belvedere College, Dublin from the age of eight to eighteen where his friends included Fintan Connolly who also went on to become a filmmaker. Reminiscing about their school days, Connolly said that Frank had a strong interest in photography and social justice and was “fizzing with ideas”.

With fellow Belvedere students, Stapleton and Connolly pushed a bed from Dublin to Cork and later the same year, a telephone box from Knock to Cork to raise money for Concern. They made their first documentary, No School is an Island while still at Belvedere College.

After school, Stapleton joined the Society of Jesus and lived in Manresa House, Clontarf where he completed his 2 year novitiate. He then moved to a Jesuit residence in Monkstown in 1982 while studying English and Philosophy at University College Dublin. In 1984, he made his first film, A Second of June, a drama documentary inspired by Ulysses about a day in the life of two ordinary Dubliners when Ronald Regan visited Ireland. After graduating from UCD in 1985, Frank lived for a time in one of the Ballymun Towers while working on social projects with Peter McVerry and other members of the Jesuit community.

To broaden his horizons, he moved to London. Around this time, he also left the Jesuits and immersed himself instead in contemporary film and the psychoanalysis of R D Laing. In 1989, he founded Ocean Films with producer, Catherine Tiernan and over the following decade, they made many documentaries and dramas together.

“Frank had an uninhibited imagination, huge energy and motivation to bring his ideas to the screen and to make dreams a reality,” says Tiernan. “In the beginning, we went abroad to seek commissions as RTÉ had not yet opened up to independent production. There was no TV3 or TG4 and the Irish Film Board had yet to be re-activated. The Whole World In His Hands - which was funded by Channel 4 - was among the first Irish independent documentaries to be screened on RTÉ.”

In 1999, Stapleton married Katharine West and the couple bought a Presbyterian manse and church in Hollymount, County Mayo with the intention of restoring it to provide them both with living and working accommodation. However, a year later, Stapleton was diagnosed with hydrocephalus and then in 2001, with multiple sclerosis which quickly limited his ability to write and direct films. Their daughter, Alice Mimosa was born in 2002 and for a number of years, Frank was a wonderful home-based father to her while Katharine, a ceramic artist, lectured at the Galway Mayo Institute of Technology.

In 2004, the family moved to Roscahill, County Galway where they had great support from the local community. With Galway based poet, Mary Dempsey as his scribe, Stapleton completed an MA in Film Studies at the Huston Film School at the National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG) in 2006. In 2008, his condition had deteriorated to the extent that he needed to move to supported accommodation in the Cheshire Home in Galway, returning home at weekends and during the holidays.

In 2012, the Galway Film Fleadh showed five of Stapleton’s films in a retrospective of his work. In the catalogue for the festival, Tony Tracy, from the Huston School of Film at NUIG, wrote that Stapleton was part of a vanguard of Irish film directors who attempted to launch a career in the 1980s. “Like others from that period, his work was defined by daring and determination, balanced between an ambition to create a personal cinema and the need to make a living.” Tracy said that Stapleton had a commitment to exploring the condition of Irishness that is imaginative, engaged and wide-ranging. His six-part series, Irish Dreamtime (2000) explored concepts of Irish heritage at the turn of the millennium.

In a tribute piece, the Irish Film Institute archivist, Sunniva O’Flynn said that much of Stapleton’s work was “distinguished by a delightful air of whimsy tethered to a foundation of deep erudition. He was a man of endless intellect, kindness, compassion and fun who bore his long illness with great fortitude and dignity.”

Frank Stapleton is survived by his wife Katharine, daughter Alice Mimosa, his mother Catherine, brothers John and Colum.

https://ifi.ie/frank-stapleton-a-tribute/
The staff and board of IFI have learnt with great sadness of the passing of film director Frank Stapleton.

Frank was an enormously talented writer, director and producer, a leading light of the Irish filmmaking world in the 1980s and 1990s before his career was cut short by the onset of multiple sclerosis. He established Ocean Films with producer and great friend Catherine Tiernan and together they made a series of memorable documentaries. Frank directed Irish Dreamtime, a series about Irish identity and heritage; Dr Browne also Spoke, a biographical film about Noel Browne; and The Whole World in his Hands, a film about Pope John Paul II’s visit to Ireland in 1979.

His Poorhouse was, for many years, one of very few dramas set during the famine. A Second of June a Ulyssean meander through Dublin on the day of Ronald Reagan’s visit was a documentary/drama hybrid which perfectly captured the texture of 1980s Dublin. Frank’s surrealist feature The Fifth Province about a frustrated writer living in the rain-soaked midlands was a fitting vehicle for his colourful story-telling and his wry sense of humour. His work was the subject of a retrospective at the Galway Film Fleadh in 2012.

Much of Frank’s work was distinguished by a delightful air of whimsy tethered to a foundation of deep erudition. He was a man of endless intellect, kindness, compassion and fun who bore his long illness with great fortitude and dignity.

We extend our deepest condolences to Frank’s family and many friends.

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Tony Tracy
from Flynn & Tracy, Historical Dictionary of Irish Cinema, 2nd Ed. (Rowan and Littlefield, 2019)

STAPLETON, FRANK (1962–). It is easy to forget just how difficult it was for the first wave of Irish directors who attempted to launch a career in the 1980s. Frank Stapleton was part of that vanguard. Like others from the period, his work is defined by daring and determination: balanced between an ambition to create a personal cinema and the need to make a living. At first glance, his oeuvre seems characterized by an eclecticism of topics and formats, but on closer consideration, continuities can be traced through a portfolio of creative documentaries, TV drama, short-film and feature film output, and a TV documentary series. Across these works, we encounter an intellect that is both limpid and ludic, a visual sense that is ambitious and original, and a commitment to exploring the condition of Irishness that is imaginative, engaged, and wide ranging.

A native of Churchtown in Dublin’s southern suburbs, he attended the distinguished Belvedere College, where, like the impressionable James Joyce before him, he came under the spell of the Jesuitical mind-set. However, unlike Stephen Daedalus, he did not initially choose an artistic vocation over a priestly calling and spent several years studying within the Society of Jesus. While still appending an “SJ” to his director credit, Frank commenced a career in film, directing the subversive and inventive A Second of June (1984), a contemporary drama-documentary inspired by Ulysses focusing on a day in the life of two ordinary Dubliners against the backdrop of Ronald Reagan’s 1984 visit to Ireland. Two years later, Frank finally uttered “non servium” and left the Jesuits. After a few years in London (where he developed an interest in R. D. Laing’s psychoanalytical techniques), he returned to Dublin and formed Ocean Films with producer Catherine Tiernan in 1989.

The absence at that point of either a film board or state funding structures for independently produced television saw Ocean Films apply for funding wherever it could. Its first success was a prestigious but controversial com- mission—The Whole World in His Hands—a documentary about what Ire- land had become in the 10 years since the visit of Pope John Paul II made for U.K.broadcaster Channel 4. Several similarly polemic documentaries fol- lowed, including two with Noel Browne (Requiem for a Civilisation [1991] and Dr. Browne Also Spoke [1992]) and two in collaboration with Michael D. Higgins just before he became Ireland’s first minister for arts, culture, and the Gaeltacht.

Moving away from documentary and able to secure funding from Radio Telefís Éireann, Frank directed the short film Poorhouse (1996), an evoca- tive adaptation of a Michael Harding story setduring the Famine that featured strong central performances and memorable visuals. Its success paved the way for what proved to be the creative high point of Frank’s career as a filmmaker, The Fifth Province (1997), an artfully realized, unclassifiable feature from a script that Frank cowrote with the late Pat Sheeran and Nina Witoszek (aka Nina FitzPatrick). Attracted by its startling originality, it was British Screen (Simon Perry) that first offered funding to the project, with the Irish Film Board subsequently contributing to its production. Evocative- ly shot by celebrated French
cinematographer Bruno de Keyzer (who contributed a European sensibility to the film’s quirky tone), the film is set in the Irish Midlands and is a worthy cinematic successor to the surrealistic perspective of that liminal zone inaugurated by Flann O’Brien. Once again, it offered an alternative view of Ireland and its culture, challenging official or sanctioned narratives (notably in an amusing but pointed scene about what makes a successful Irish screenplay), and centers on a maverick and dreamer in the figure of Timmy Sugrue (Brian F. O’Byrne).

The Fifth Province was well received at film festivals (winning Best First Feature at the Galway Film Fleadh [Festival] and the Audience Prize at the Fantasporto Festival) but didn’t manage to find a distributor outside of the United Kingdom and Ireland, perhaps because it was not perceived as “Irish” enough. In its aftermath, Frank worked on a range of documentary series before the onset of multiple sclerosis prematurely ended his career. These included Irish Dreamtime (2000), an ambitious six-part series exploring con- cepts of Irish heritage at the turn of the millennium. Each, in different ways, continued the work of his fiction and nonfiction films in seeking to interrogate and articulate the distinctive qualities of the Irish condition at a specific moment in time with a bias
toward the marginal, the excluded, and the unorthodox.

Born: 12 January 1894, Australia
Entered: 09 October 1914, Loyola Greenwich, Australia (HIB)

Left Society of Jesus: 20 July 1923

1914-1916: Loyola Greenwich, , Sydney, Novitiate
1916-1920: Loyola Greenwich, Sydney, Cook
1920-1924: Xavier College, Kew, Melbourne, working

Born: County Waterford
Entered: 23 April 1601, Salamanca, Spain

Left Society of Jesus: c 1604

◆ Calendar of MacErlean Transcipts Addenda Irishmen who entered Rome and Spain 1561-1772 (Finegan)
James Fuerte (Ford?) native of Waterford
Son of John Fuerte and Cecilia Walsh
23 April 1601 Entered CAST

◆ Father Francis Finegan Notes
Strong (in Spain Fuerte)

DOB Waterford; Ent 23/04/1601 Salamanca; First Vows 25/04/1603

Son of James and Cecilia née Walsh

He may have been a student at Salamanca before Ent 23/04/1601 Salamanca, wjhere he also made First Vows 25/04/1603

Nothing further known

Born: 1580, Drogheda, County Louth
Entered: 26 July 1597, Drogheda, County Louth

Left Society of Jesus: 1601

◆ Father Francis Finegan Notes
DOB 1580 Drogheda; Ent 26/07/1597 Lisbon;

Had previously studied at St Anthony’s Lisbon before Ent 26/07/1597 Lisbon

Nothing further is known after Ent, but he seems to be identical with a Matthew Talbot who was at the College of Braga, apparently studying philosophy 1600-1601. A Matthew Talbot is also mentioned in the list of past students of the Irish College, Lisbon (1615)

Born: 15 December 1943, Mountain View Road, Ranelagh, Dublin City
Entered: 07 September 1961, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Died: 09 November 2021, Our Lady’s Hospice, Harold’s Cross, Dublin (Hermitage Park, Rathfarnham, Dublin City)

Left Society of Jesus: 10 July 1968 (from Milltown Park)

Father, Liam H, was a Vocational teacher at Kevin Street College of Technology, Head of Engineering Dept. Mother was Mary (Tynan). Family lived at Sandford Road, Ranelagh until 1958

Older of two boys with one sister.

Educated at a Convent school for three years he then went to Synge Street.

Baptised at St Andrew’s, Westland Row, 21/12/1943
Confirmed at St Kevin’s, Harrington Street, by Dr Dunne of Dublin, 16/03/1954

1961-1963: St Mary's, Emo, Novitiate
1963-1966: Rathfarnham Castle, Juniorate, UCD
1966-1968: Milltown Park, Philosophy

Address 2000 & 1991: Hermitage Park, Rathfarnham, Dublin City & Woodpark, Ballinteer, Dublin City

https://rip.ie/death-notice/liam-bosco-trundle-dublin-rathfarnham-461174

The death has occurred of

Liam Bosco TRUNDLE
Rathfarnham, Dublin

Date of Death:
Tuesday 9th November 2021

Trundle, Liam Bosco (Hermitage Park, Rathfarnham) 9th November 2021, peacefully at Our Lady's Hospice, Harold’s Cross, predeceased by Graham; sadly missed by Teedi, Steven, Carrie, Julie, Maarten, grandchildren, Josh, Mia, Alex and Sophie, his brother Pat and wife Dairine, nephews, nieces, extended family, friends and neighbours.

"May he Rest In Peace"

A private family funeral will be held on Friday, 12 November, at 11.30am in the Church of the Divine Word Marley Grange (maximum of 80 people), followed by burial in Mount Venus Cemetery, Rathfarnham.

https://hhtireland.org/news/hht-ireland-loses-a-great-friend/

HHT IRELAND LOSES A GREAT FRIEND

TIME TO SAY GOODBYE TO A DEAR FRIEND….
It is with deepest regret that the Board of HHT Ireland shares the sad news today of the recent passing of Liam Trundle on 9th November, 2021.

Liam was an excellent accountant and a much respected and revered treasurer in HHT Ireland, keeping our Patient Organisation in immaculate financial health.

But more than this, Liam was a dear friend who generously offered advice and support on a variety of topics to ensure a better future for our many HHT families nationwide.

Liam died peacefully in Our Lady’s Hospice, Harolds Cross, Dublin, with his devoted wife Teedi by his side.

Ar dheis De go raibh a hanam.

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TRUNDLE, Liam Bosco: Acknowledgement

TRUNDLE - Liam Bosco (Rathfarnham and Ranelagh) - First Anniversary shared by his treasured son, Graham, 1980 - 1993. Both missed daily by Teedi, Steve, Carrie and Pat, together with Julie, Maarten, Dairine and cherished grandchidren, Josh and Sophie Blanken and Mia and Alex Trundle, Liam's Healy niece and nephews and Donegal McGintys. The family are forever grateful to the community of family, friends and neighbours who surrounded us with love and support at all times. Chris and Eileen and Divine Word parish team led by Fathers Jim and Liam. They propped us up so gently. Liam's special doctors along the way, in particular, Frances Stafford and Alan Laing and teams. Also The Care at Home team in Terenure. Thank you Angels. Every kindness of a call, text, meals. We bless you all. To the Oaks in Druids Heath and colleagues from EY and pals who sent Liam emails of friendship on his last days which the family will forever treasure. Liam and Graham, may you rest in peace. We are so grateful for your lives.

Born: 18 October 1888, St Patrick’s Quay, Cork City, County Cork
Entered: 16 January 1909, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 08 October 1919 (from Milltown Park, for health reasons)

Father was a Master Mariner and was lost at sea shortly after William’s birth. Mother lives at “Tuckerville”, Copley Place, Cork City.

Younger of two boys.

Educated at PBC Cork and then St Colman’s Fermoy then after illness returned to PBC and then went to UCD.

1909-1911: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, , Novitiate
1911-1913: Stonyhurst England (ANG) studying Philosophy
1913-1914: Xavier College, Melbourne, Australia, Regency
1914-1916: St Ignatius College Riverview, Sydney, Australia, Regency
1916-1917: St Aloysius College SJ, Sydney, Australia, Regency
1917-1919: St Joseph’s College, Philadelphia in MARNEB Province - for health reasons
1919: Milltown Park

Born: 07 September 1909, Summerhill, Cross Avenue, Blackrock, County Dublin
Entered: 01 September 1926, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 18 October 1933 (from Mungret College SJ, Regency)

Family moved to Mount Anville, Dundrum, County Dublin. Father, Kevin, was the gardener at Mount Anville. Mother was Helena (Kelly).

Eldest of a family three sister and one brother.

Early education at Mount Anville NS, and then went to Stillorgan NS. He then went tot CBS Synge Street, Dublin

Baptised at St Mary’s, Booterstown, 09/09/1909
Confirmed at St Kevin’s, Harrington Street, by Dr Byrne of Dublin, 15/03/1921

1926-1928: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Novitiate
1928-1929: Rathfarnham Castle, Juniorate
1929-1932: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Philosophy
1932-1933: Mungret College SJ, Regency

Born: 02 october 1886, Killenaule, County Tipperary
Entered: 07 September 1903, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly
Died: 06 February 1956, Anglo-American Hospital, Cairo Governorate, Cairo, Egypt

Left Society of Jesus: 26 July 1915 (for health reasons)

Father was a general merchant and died in 1900.

One of four brothers and three sisters. Eldest brother is a priest in the diocese of Dubuque, Iowa, USA, and eldest sister is in the Presentation nuns.

Educated at local NS he then went to Mungret College SJ for two years.

1903-1905: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, , Novitiate
1905-1907: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, , Philosophy
1907-1910 at Kasteel Gemert, Netherlands (TOLO) studying Philosophy
1910-1915: Clongowes Wood College SJ, Regency

Sought dismissal in part due to the experience of deafness.

Address after leaving, 32, Lower Leeson Street, Dublin Was supported financially by the Provincial until he finished his studies.

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DICTIONARY OF IRISH BIOGRAPHY

Walshe, Joseph Patrick

Forename: Joseph, Patrick
Surname: Walshe
Gender: Male
Career: Administration and Diplomacy
Religion: Catholic
Born 2 October 1886 in Co. Tipperary
Died 6 February 1956 in Egypt

Walshe, Joseph Patrick (1886–1956), diplomat, was born 2 October 1886 in Killenaule, Co. Tipperary, fifth among six children of James Walshe (1835–1900), hotelier, retailer, farmer, and nationalist county councillor for Tipperary South Riding (1899–1900), and Frances Ellen (‘Fannie’) Walshe (neé Heenan; 1858–1931). Educated at the Jesuit apostolic school, Mungret College, outside Limerick city, he entered the Society of Jesus in 1903, studying for two years at the Jesuit noviciate at Tullybeg, King's Co. (Offaly). He continued his education at Gemert in the Netherlands, where he remained to 1910, studying with priests from the Jesuit province of Toulouse forced to take refuge in the Netherlands because of the anti-clerical laws then in force in France. During these years he became fluent in French and acquired the rudiments of German and Dutch.

On returning to Ireland in 1910 Walshe taught French, Latin, Greek, English, mathematics, and Irish (of which he was a fluent speaker) at Clongowes Wood College, Co. Kildare. His students included the future archbishop of Dublin, John Charles McQuaid (qv). In 1913 Walshe entered UCD and was awarded a BA (1916). He left the Jesuits in 1916 without completing his training, possibly suffering from ill health, but remained a devout catholic through his diplomatic career, seeking to place Irish foreign policy on a strongly catholic footing. He eschewed the catholicism of Maynooth and looked to Rome, the Holy See, and European catholicism for inspiration. In December 1933 he wrote that ‘the church in Ireland . . . has failed because it has departed from the ideals of the universal Church and concentrated the minds of the people on one or two negative commandments to the exclusion of the general teaching of Christ’ (Documents on Irish foreign policy, iv, 275).

Returning to UCD on leaving the Jesuits, Walshe studied for an MA in French, which he was awarded in 1917. During this period he also studied law and became politically active in the Irish independence movement. He held a number of short-term jobs in Dublin in these years, including waiting in Jammet's, the famous French restaurant (he was, after all, a hotel owner's son) and working in a French-language bookshop in the city. France and Italy, in particular the Vatican, in addition to the Holy Land, were to exert an enduring cultural and intellectual influence on Walshe through his life.

Though he was a qualified solicitor, diplomacy interested Walshe more than a legal career. In November 1920 he joined the Dáil Éireann mission to the Paris peace conference, led by Seán T. O'Kelly (qv), as part of the clandestine pre-independence Irish foreign service. This period in Paris, as well as his earlier years in Gemert, had a strong influence on Walshe and his later style showed influences from French diplomacy. Returning to Dublin in early 1922, he became secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs at the suggestion of the outgoing secretary, Robert Brennan (qv), who had resigned, being unable to accept the 1921 Anglo–Irish treaty. Holding the pro-treaty core of the department (renamed External Affairs in December 1922) together through the civil war (1922–3), Walshe was initially designated ‘acting secretary’, a term he disliked.

In the 1920s Walshe protected his small department from the predatory Department of the President of the Executive Council, which sought to incorporate External Affairs into its own structure, and from the Department of Finance, which sought to close External Affairs down. In August 1927 he was officially appointed secretary, his position now being equal to the heads of other government departments. Walshe used the period following the assassination of his minister, Kevin O'Higgins (qv), to effect this change when the president of the executive council, William T. Cosgrave (qv), was acting minister for external affairs. With Cosgrave on his side, Walshe could overcome any opposition from Finance. A small expansion of the department's overseas missions followed in 1929, when Ireland opened legations in Paris, Rome, and the Holy See. By the end of the 1920s Walshe had built a professional, apolitical, and impartial diplomatic service out of the ruins of the Dáil Éireann diplomatic service which split over the 1921 treaty. He undertook important overseas work, attending the assemblies of the League of Nations and the imperial conferences of 1923, 1926, and 1930. Travelling to Rome in 1929, he undertook the groundwork for the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Holy See and Ireland. When Ireland hosted the 1932 eucharistic congress, he organised the official welcome for distinguished visitors.

Through the 1920s Walshe identified himself strongly with the incumbent Cumann na nGaedheal government. Following the election of Fianna Fáil in 1932, Éamon de Valera (qv) became president of the executive council (prime minister) and minister for external affairs. Walshe initially feared that he would be removed as secretary of the department, but on the contrary he made himself indispensable to de Valera in the most important areas of Irish foreign policy (in particular in Anglo–Irish relations), and he and de Valera developed a strong working relationship. Though the strategic direction of foreign policy remained with de Valera, Walshe had considerable latitude in its execution, revelled in being de Valera's éminence grise, and often appeared to model his modus operandi on those of seventeenth-century French diplomats such as Père Joseph, Cardinal Richelieu, or Cardinal Mazarin. Though he committed very little to paper of his views on the correct style and manner of diplomacy, there are striking similarities between François de Callières's On the manner of negotiating with princes, first published in 1716, and Walshe's diplomatic style.

Under de Valera, Walshe further strengthened External Affairs's position in the Irish administrative system. By the outbreak of the second world war, External Affairs, and Walshe himself, had played a central role in de Valera's redefinition of Anglo–Irish relations, culminating in the 1938 Anglo–Irish agreements on trade, finance and defence. Walshe was now identified closely with de Valera, and the later 1930s saw his greatest hold on power.

Through the war Walshe undertook high-level negotiations with British officials to ensure that Ireland, though neutral, provided Britain with intelligence reports and other assistance. Walshe knew that Ireland was under threat of invasion from Britain and from Germany. Ireland lacked a viable military capacity to repel any invader, and throughout the conflict had to rely on the soft power of its diplomatic service to protect Irish neutrality. Heading that service, Walshe made sure to keep on good terms with the British representative in Dublin, Sir John Maffey (qv), and the German minister to Ireland, Eduard Hempel (qv), but he found his relationship with the American minister, David Gray (qv), much more difficult to maintain. Photographs show that Walshe aged noticeably during the war. Coming close to complete physical and mental breakdown in 1942, he nevertheless skilfully handled the crises of wartime diplomacy, in particular the ‘American note’ incident of February 1944, and had earlier calmed growing tension between Ireland and Germany as Hempel showed his disapproval at the interning of crash-landed German airmen while allied airmen were allowed over the border into Northern Ireland. Walshe ensured that Ireland, though secretly strongly pro-Allied, appeared in public as scrupulously neutral. However, he was unable to prevent de Valera from undertaking on 2 May 1945 his visit to the residence of the German minister to give his condolences on the death of Hitler. Walshe had a strong interest in the politics of Vichy France and something of an interest in Italian corporatism; like many people of his time he was also prone to the occasional anti-Semitic remark, but he was never a supporter of the ideologies of Hitler's Germany – he was a firm supporter of democracy, and his catholicism was strongly at odds with Nazi policies.

In September 1946 Walshe presided over a four-day conference of the heads of Irish missions abroad and the heads of key senior departments of state at Iveagh House. It was to draw up the blueprint for Irish foreign policy in the post-war years, which would in particular promote national cultural propaganda and foreign trade. The conference had the feel of a religious retreat about it, and in his résumé of the conference Walshe tellingly referred to Ireland's diplomats as ‘apostles for this country’ (NAI, DFA Secretaries files, P100).

But Walshe's years running External Affairs were drawing to a close. In May 1946 he took up the post of ambassador to the Holy See, his first overseas posting since 1922. He was the first Irish diplomat to hold a posting at this diplomatic rank. In the post-war world his old-style diplomacy was overtaken by new forms of technocratic and multilateral diplomacy, and he became something of an anachronism to junior officers in External Affairs. But to Walshe, representing Ireland at the Vatican was the highest possible accolade and the crowning moment of his diplomatic career. During his eight years at the Holy See he was on the front line of the Cold War. With Italian politics bitterly divided between left and right, he – a lifelong opponent of communism – obtained financial support from Ireland for the Christian Democrats in the 1948 elections. He wished to show the Vatican that Ireland was a strong supporter of the catholic church in its anti-communist crusade, but Irish fidelity did not always rank as highly in Vatican opinions as Walshe hoped. Having moved from a post that involved running a growing department, down to running an embassy with a very small staff, he often appeared to be depressed while posted to the Holy See. He no longer held the levers of power; and while he could operate in one of his dearest environments, he was now only a minor player on a much larger and more complex stage. In 1954, in recognition of his services, the Holy See awarded Walshe the Order of the Sword and Cape, and made him a Chevalier Grand Cross of the Order of St Sylvester, with the rank of papal chamberlain.

On retirement in October 1954 Walshe hoped to live in Rome and remain of service to the Vatican. However, the heart and respiratory problems that had dogged him during his life returned. To improve his health he moved to Kalk Bay, Cape Province, South Africa. While returning to Rome in early 1956, he was taken ill in Egypt and died of cardiac asthma at the Anglo–American Hospital, Cairo, on 6 February 1956. He was buried in the Commonwealth War Graves cemetery, Cairo. It is said that Walshe had made it clear before he died (though it is not in his will) that he wished to be buried where he died, expecting it to be Rome, rather than Cairo. Yet, as he was a frequent traveller in Egypt, Sudan, and Palestine in the 1930s, this can perhaps be regarded as a second best.

Joseph Walshe remains among the most significant figures in the history of twentieth-century Irish diplomacy. He was the founder and father of the modern Irish diplomatic service. He rebuilt the Department of External Affairs from the ruins of the split over the 1921 treaty, and served the Cumann an nGaedheal, Fianna Fáil, and inter-party governments. His colleague Leo McCauley (qv) wrote to Walshe in 1934 that he knew that the Department of External Affairs was ‘the apple of your eye, bone of your bone, flesh of your flesh’ (NAI, DFA S78(a)).

Walshe favoured a closed style of diplomacy and was often in conflict over matters of policy with his own colleagues and with senior officials in other government departments. He often kept his assistant secretary and best friend from UCD days, Seán Murphy (qv), in the dark about important decisions. Walshe was also mercurial and quick to take offence. Though he would say that his mood swings were merely mischievous on his part, he almost fell out with Murphy over the direction of Irish policy towards France in 1940–41, when Murphy, on the spot as minister to the Vichy government, was in a better position to comment on developments in France. Walshe had had a similar run-in with Seán Lester (qv) in 1931 over the Irish response at the League of Nations to the Japanese invasion of Manchuria; and by the 1950s he had a less than civil relationship with the Irish minister to Rome, his old colleague from the Dáil Éireann foreign service, Michael MacWhite (qv). It is therefore no surprise to learn that when he was approached by Michael McDunphy (qv) to contribute a witness statement to the Bureau of Military History, he replied: ‘I am afraid that I should have to ask to be relieved of such a task . . . I cannot believe that it would be a good precedent for a civil servant to tell the story of his own period . . . that kind of story, especially in a post like mine, would have repercussions which, cumulatively, could be quite detrimental to the interests of the state’ (NAI, DFA Holy See Embassy 20/87). It is abundantly clear that Walshe saw External Affairs as his creation, and that he and it were inseparable.

Though a civil servant, Walshe was a strongly political actor, often uneasy with the constraints of public service. He was not always a cool, calm diplomat and was prone to being excitable, overzealous, and emotional. His complex personality left a strong impression on those who met him. He could appear as all things to all people, seeking out their vulnerable points and using them as a means to achieve his own ends. Contemporaries remarked on his ability to influence people and to win them over to his way of thinking. Yet in his private life Walshe was unostentatious and humble, happy to have been of service to the Irish state.

He never married and on his death left an estate to the value of £3,014 to his brother Patrick. Unsubstantiated lore in External Affairs was that he had always hoped to marry his colleague Sheila Murphy (qv), but his poor health came in the way.

Sources
NAI, Department of Foreign Affairs archives; Éamon de Valera papers, UCD Archives; NAI, 1901 and 1911 census data; GRO; NAI, Wills and administrations; Ir. Times, 4 Feb. 1946, 19 Jan. 1952, 19 Aug. 1954, 7 Feb. 1956; Ir. Independent, 20 Aug. 1954; Dermot Keogh, Ireland and Europe (1989); id., ‘Profile of Joseph Walshe, secretary of the department of external affairs 1922–1946’, Irish Studies in International Affairs, iii, no. 2 (1990); id., Ireland and the Vatican (1997); Ronan Fanning, Michael Kennedy, Dermot Keogh, and Eunan O'Halpin (ed.), Documents on Irish foreign policy, i–iv (1998–2004); Michael Kennedy, ‘“Nobody knows and ever shall know from me that I have written in”: Joseph Walshe, Éamon de Valera and the execution of Irish foreign policy, 1932–38’, Irish Studies in International Affairs, xiv (2003); private information

Born: 1609, Clonmel, County Tipperary
Entered: 1624, Villagarcía, Galicia, Spai

Left Society of Jesus: 1634

◆ In Chronological Catalogue Sheet as Ent 2-19/10/1624

◆ Old/15 (1) has Ent 2-19/10/1624, RIP after 1633

◆ CATSJ I-Y has DOB 1609 Clonmel; Ent 2nd or 19/10/1624 Spain;
1628 At Avila College
1633 At Salamanca Age 24 Soc 8 made good progress in his studies

◆ Father Francis Finegan Notes
DOB 1609 Clonmel; Ent 1624 Villagarcía;

After his First Vows at Villagarcía 22/10/1626, he was sent to Royal College Salamanca for Theology, and was there April 1633, after which there is no further record of him.

Born: 1589, Clonmel, County Tipperary
Entered: 30 September 1612,

Left Society of Jesus: 12 November 1618

◆ In Chronological Catalogue Sheet as Ent 1612

◆ Francis Finegan SJ Biographical Dictionary 1598-1773
He was the son of Peter White and Margaret Grant, and he was born in 1596, and he entered the Irish College, Salamanca on October 24, 1609. Both the student’s entry book at Salamanca and the entry book of the Jesuit Novitiate state that he was born in Spain. The latter source gives his birthplace more precisely as Bayona. He must have been sent or brought as a child to Ireland to do two years study under the celebrated John Flahy. he did two further years of study in Portugal before his admission at Salamanca.

He entered the Society September 1612, but left the Society on November 12, 1618, when he was studying Theology

◆ Henry Foley - Records of the English province of The Society of Jesus Vol VII
WHITE, THOMAS, Father (Irish), a native of Clonmel; entered the Society 1612; in 1617 he was in the Province of Castile; in 1634 he left the Society. (Irish Ecclesiastical Record, August, 1874.)

◆ Calendar of MacErlean Transcipts Addenda Irishmen who entered Rome and Spain 1561-1772 (Finegan)
Thomas White 17 of Waterford
Son of Peter White and Margaret Grant, Salamanca
23 April 1601 Entered CAST

Born: 13 October 1909, The Beach, Cobh, County Cork
Entered: 02 September 1929, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 12 September 1931

Father was a chemist who died in 1922. Mother is supported by father’s business.

Eldest of four boys and has two sisters.

Early education in Presentation Brothers College, Cobh and then at Blackrock College for two years. He then went to St Colman’s, Fermoy for two years, and nthe went to St Patrick’s College Maynooth for two years.

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - LEFT Noviceship within days of taking First Vows

1929-1931: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly, Novitiate
1931-1932: Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin, Juniorate

Born: 01 June 1912, Poland
Entered: 30 July 1932, Brzozów, Podkarpackie Voivodeship, Poland - Poloniae Minoris Province (POL Mi)

Left Society of Jesus: 20 January 1942

Had a brother or uncle a priest in Poland.

1932-1934: Brzozów, Podkarpackie Voivodeship, Poland (POL Mi), Novitiate
1934-1937: Ignatianum University, Mikołaja Kopernika, Kraków, Poland, Philosophy
1937-1940: Jezuici Boholanum, Aleje Radawickie, Lublin Poland, Theology (POL Ma)
1940-1942: Milltown Park (HIB) studying 1940-1942

Address after leaving, Hollybank Avenue, Ranelagh, Dublin, then Antrim Road, Belfast.