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

Left Society of Jesus: 01 April 1943

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

Younger of two boys with two sisters.

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

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