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

Left Society of Jesus: 21 October 1935

Parents were farmers.

Eldest of five boys.

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

Born: 28 February 1898, Bouladuff, Thurles, County Tipperary
Entered: 12 October 1917, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 23 May 1921

Father was a shopkeeper and a farmer and died in 1907, and mother died in 1900.

Second eldest of three boys and there are three girls in the family.

Early education was at a local National School, and then the Christian Brothers Thurles (1909-1914) and then began studying Commerce at UCD, (1914-1917)

1917-1919: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg,, Novitiate
1919-1921: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, studying Rhetoric and Philosophy