Born: 07 July, 1922, Kanturk, Co Cork
Entered: 07 September 1940, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 07 May 1941

aka “John”

Father was a merchant farmer.

Youngest of three boys with four sisters.

Early education at CBS Charleville and then at Clongowes Wood College SJ.

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

Left Society of Jesus: 25 October 1921

Brother Novice

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

Born: 05 November 1873, Dundalk, County Louth
Entered: 07 September 1891,

Left Society of Jesus: 1892

Education at St Mary’s, Dundalk and Clongowes Wood College

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

Left Society of Jesus: 28 May 1964

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

Youngest of three boys and one girl.

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

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

Film Director; Co-founder of Focus Theatre

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jesuit training

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Left Society of Jesus: 1950

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

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

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

Educated at CBS Synge Street and Clongowes Wood College SJ

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

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

https://rip.ie/death-notice/valentine-val-carney-dublin-104745

The death has occurred of

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

Saturday 26th June 2010

Date of Death:
Friday 25th June 2010

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

Left Society of Jesus: 20 June 1930 for health reasons

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

Second of four boys.

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

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

Left Society of Jesus: 1918 for health reasons

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

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

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

Left Society of Jesus: 06 May 1924

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

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

Left Society of Jesus: 01 September 1902

Father was Superintendant of Dublin Police.

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

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

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

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

Left Society of Jesus: 09 February 1922

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

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

Left Society of Jesus: 1909

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

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

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

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

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

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

Left Society of Jesus: 1901

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

Born: 12 February 1953, My Lady’s Mile, Holywood, County Down, Northern Ireland
Entered: 21 October 1974, Manresa House, Dollymount, Dublin
Died: 02 January 2013, Slieve Banna, Coleraine, County Derry

Left Society of Jesus: 28 March 1975

Born in Belfast, County Antrim

Father, Kevin, was a solicitor. Mother was Marian (Harbinson).

1 Brother and 3 Sisters

Educated at Irish Christian Brothers Boys School, Oxford Strreet, Belfast, County Antrim and then Clongowes Wood College SJ and Law at TCD

Baptised at St Colmcille’s Church, My Lady’s Mile, Holywood, County Down, 25/02/1953
Confirmed at St Colmcille’s Church, My Lady’s Mile, Holywood, County Down, by Dr Mageean of Down and Connor, 21/09/1961

https://notices.irishtimes.com/death/donaghy-arthur/22763352

DONAGHY, Arthur: Death

DONAGHY - January 2, 2013, suddenly at home (after a short illness), Arthur Joseph, 3 Slieve Banna, Coleraine, devoted husband of Harriet, loving son of Marian and the late Kevin (Holywood, Co. Down), dear brother of Fiona, Tom, Eleanor and Kate and a much loved brother-in-law and uncle. Funeral from St. Mary's Star of the Sea Church, Portstewart tomorrow (Saturday) after 1.00pm Requiem Mass followed by interment in Portstewart Cemetery. Family flowers only please.

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

Left Society of Jesus: 02 July 1878

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

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

Left Society of Jesus: 1880/1

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

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

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

Left Society of Jesus: 1879

twin brother of Nicholas RIP at Nice 1882

Educated at Clongowes

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

Early education at Clongowes.

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

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

Left Society of Jesus: 25 June 1958

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

Older of two boys.

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

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

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

The death has occurred of

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

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

Date Published:
Monday 8th July 2024

Date of Death:
Sunday 7th July 2024

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In 2000 he was appointed to the Supreme Court.

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

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

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

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

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

Suaimhneas síoraí dá anam dílis.”

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

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

Published on 9 July 2024

Last updated on 9 July 2024

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

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

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

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

"Suaimhneas síoraí dá anam dílis.”

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

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

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

He died last Sunday aged 86.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Born: 31 December 1829,
Entered: 30 April 1856, Clongowes Wood College SJ

Left Society of Jesus: 1858

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

Left Society of Jesus: December 1916

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

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

Left Society of Jesus: 31 August 1928 for health reasons

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

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

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

Born: 21 July 1882, Tramore, County Waterford
Entered: 07 September 1899, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: March 1900

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Clongowes student. Ward in Chancery, compelled to leave Novitiate after 6 months. He studied in Dublin for a while and then became lieutenant in the army and served in the Boer War campaign 1900-1902

Born: 28 January 1880, County Cork
Entered: 07 September 1897, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 20 December 1897 for health reasons

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Clongowes student; Dismissed due to ill health (knees)

Born: 15 December 1902, County Kildare
Entered: 01 March 1921, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 20 July 1923

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Servant at Clongowes before Entry

Born: 22 March 1911, Clongowes Wood, County Kildare
Entered: 02 September 1929, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 19 January 1930

Educated at Mungret College SJ

Born: 17 August 1881, Kilkenny City, County Kilkenny
Entered: 07 September 1900, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: October 1900

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Clongowes student; LEFT during Long Retreat Oct 1900

Born: 20 November 1878, Belgrave Square, Rathmines, Dublin
Entered: 07 September 1895, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 29 April 1897 for health reasons

Educated at Christian Brothers School Synge Street and Clongowes Wood College SJ

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Brother of Alexander Kickham who died in the Novitiate 1892. DISMISSED 29 April 1897, No vocation and bad health

Born: 19 July 1906, Tramore, County Waterford
Entered: 13 September 1924, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 14 January 1925

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

Born: 03 May 1973, County Cork
Entered: 03 May 1892, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: March 1893

Educated at Belvedere College SJ and Clongowes Wood College SJ

Born: 20 June 1884, Dundrum House, Dundrum, Dublin, County Dublin
Entered: 06 September 1902, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly
Died: 16 May 1963, Sandyford, County Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: July 1903

Father was Chief Justice in Newfoundland, and died in 1897. Mother lived at New Brighton, Monkstown, Dublin.

3 sisters (one deceased) and none brothers (2 deceased) and is the youngest in the family.

Education at Clongowes

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

DICTIONARY OF IRISH BIOGRAPHY

Little, Patrick John (‘P. J.’)

Contributed by
Coleman, Marie

Little, Patrick John (‘P. J.’) (1884–1963), journalist, lawyer, and politician, was born 17 June 1884 in Dundrum, Co. Dublin, son of Philip Francis Little and Mary Jane Little (née Holdwright). His father, born in Canada of Irish parents, was a former leader of the Liberal party in Newfoundland, and served as premier, attorney general, and high court judge in Newfoundland, before coming to Ireland, where he became a supporter of the Irish parliamentary party.

Educated at Clongowes Wood College, Little studied law at UCD, where he was a prominent figure in the Literary and Historical Society. Associated with journalism from his time as manager of UCD's St Stephen's magazine, he was editor of various Sinn Féin newspapers between 1915 and 1926, including Old Ireland, New Ireland, Éire, Sinn Féin, and An Phoblacht. Involved in the forgery of the ‘Castle document’ which ordered the suppression of the Irish Volunteers prior to the Easter rising, he was on the Sinn Féin executive 1917–22, and stood as Sinn Féin candidate for Dublin Rathmines in the 1918 general election but was defeated by the unionist Sir Maurice Edward Dockrell (qv). From April to December 1921 he was a diplomatic representative of Dáil Éireann, visiting South Africa and South America, and in January 1922 attended the Irish Race Conference in Paris as Brazilian representative. He also became a partner in the legal firm Little, Proud, & Ó hUadhaigh, where one of his partners was Seán Ó hUadhaigh (qv).

An opponent of the Anglo–Irish treaty and founder member of Fianna Fáil, he was elected TD for Waterford in the June 1927 general election, a seat he held until his retirement from politics in 1954. Having served (1933–9) as parliamentary secretary to Éamon de Valera (qv) as minister for external affairs and president of the executive council/taoiseach, he was minister for posts and telegraphs 1939–48, which included responsibility for broadcasting. As minister he utilised the influence of his office for the development of arts and music. He had a particular interest in developing the potential of radio, and promoted the broadcasting of traditional and classical music on Radio Éireann, which included the hosting of a large series of public symphonic concerts by RÉ during the 1940s. Opposed to direct political control of broadcasting, he believed that it should be administered by a semi-state body.

Throughout the 1940s he championed unsuccessfully the establishment of a national concert hall, which he linked with his support for a council of national culture. When the British government established the Arts Council of Great Britain in late 1945, he looked to it as a model of what might be established in Ireland. The Arts Act 1951, which established An Chomhairle Ealaíon (Arts Council) and was enacted shortly before the government of John A. Costello (qv) left office, was essentially what Little had proposed in 1946. It was appropriate that de Valera, who regarded Little as his arts advisor, should appoint him director for a five-year term (Costello had intended to appoint Thomas Bodkin (qv)). Despite his age (he was 68 on appointment) he was an energetic director, and effective to the extent that the financial constraints of the early 1950s permitted. He established specialist panels to advise on particular aspects of the arts and followed the British example in launching local advisory committees (an initiative that ultimately petered out). Little did not stand in the 1954 general election.

Outside politics,
Little was involved for many years in working for the sick in Lourdes as a brancardier and was made a chef de service in 1935. He married (1917) Seonaid Ní Leoid; they had no children, but Seonaid had two daughters and a son from a previous marriage. He died 16 May 1963 at his home, Clonlea, Sandyford, Co. Dublin.

Sources
Liam C. Skinner, Politicians by accident (1946); Arts Council of Ireland, Annual Reports (1951–6); James Meenan (ed), Centenary history of the Literary and Historical Society (1955); Ir. Press, 17 May 1963; Maurice Gorham, Forty years of Irish broadcasting (1967); Vincent Browne (ed.), Magill book of Irish politics (1981); Walker; DCB, xii (1990); Brian P. Kennedy, Dreams and responsibilities. The state and the arts in independent Ireland [1990]; Ronan Fanning et al. (ed.), Documents on Irish foreign policy, i, 1919–22 (1998)

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

Left Society of Jesus: 1875

Early education at Carlow College and then UCD

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

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

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

Left Society of Jesus: August 1904

Parents farmers.

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

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

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

Born: 06 August 1940, Ilnacullen, Whitebeam Avenue, Clonskeagh, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 06 September 1958, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Died: 24 December 2011, Purfleet, Essex, England

Left Society of Jesus: 08 April 1959

Father, Anthony, was an architect. Mother was Anna (O’Connell) who died, and father remarried. Famiily lived in Flesk, Killarney for a time early in Kevin’s life.

Only child

Educated at Clongowes Wood College SJ

Baptised at St Mary’s Cathedral, New Street, Kilarney, County Kerry, 08/08/1940
Confirmed at St Mary’s Pro Cathedral, Marlborough Street, Dublin, by Dr McQuaid, 22/02/1951

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MADDEN Kevin, J, Kevin J.: Death

MADDEN Kevin, J. (Purfleet, Essex and formerly of Whitebeam Ave, Clonskeagh) - December 24, 2011, sadly missed by his wife Sheila, sons Tim and Steve, sisters Clare (Stassen) and Paula (McGowan), brothers-in-law Leo and Fabian, nieces and nephews, relatives and friends. Funeral will take place in Essex on January 6, 2012. All enquiries to Mulley & Son Undertakers, Upminster, Essex., RM14 3DH ph. 0044 1708220330.

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The death has occurred of

Kevin, J. MADDEN
Purfleet, Essex and formerly of Whitebeam Ave, Clonskeagh, Dublin

Funeral will take place in Essex on January 6, 2012.

Date Published:
Friday 30th December 2011

Date of Death:
Saturday 24th December 2011

Born: 21 October 1890, Hanover Place, Coleraine, County Derry
Entered: 23 September 1916, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly
Ordained: 20 June 1915, St Patrick's College, Maynooth, County Kildare

Left Society of Jesus: 11 November 1918

Father was a merchant in Coleraine and died in 1917. Mother then resided at The Villas, Castlerock, County Derry.

Third eldest of a family of twelve, with eight boys and five girls.

Early education was a non-Catholic private school, in Coleraine, then at home and then at St Columb’s, Derry. Then in 1904 he went to Clongowes Wood College SJ until 1908. he then began to study Medicine at UCD, but only for a few months, returning home to Castlerock, studying privately and passed First Arts. in 1909.

Entered the Novitiate 07 September 1909 at Tullabeg, and left in February 1910. He then returned to St Columb’s Derry in preparation for entry to Maynooth. as a student of the Derry Diocese in 1911. He was ordained ar St Patrick’s College on June 20, 1915, and celebrated his first Mass at SFX Gardiner Street.. He was received again into the Society in 1916.

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Entered 07 September 1909; LEFT 17 February 1910; Re-entered 23 September 1916; LEFT 11 November 1918

Born: 01 May 1935, Abercromby Place, Fermoy, County Cork
Entered: 06 September 1952, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Died: 10 September 2020, Belfast, County Antrim

Left Society of Jesus: 12 November 1953

Father, Myles, was a doctor died in 1952 and Mother, Aideen (Magner) died in 1939. He and his younger brother went to live with an aunt (Mrs Buckley) at Leeson Park, Dublin.

1 younger Brother

Early education was at St Colman’s College Fermoy for two years and then at Clongowes Wood College for three years.

Baptised at St Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, Lower Glanmire Road, Montenotte, Cork City, 08/05/1935
Confirmed at St Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, Church Square, Fermoy, County Cork, by Dr Roche of Cloyne, 15/04/1945

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McSWINEY, Myles: Death

McSWINEY Myles (Belfast, formerly Fermoy, Palo Alto and Brussels) passed away peacefully at home on September 10, 2020. Mourned by his wife Deirdre, relatives and friends. Due to government restrictions house and funeral private. Enquiries and messages may be given to Ken Gilmore Funeral Director, 13 The Square, Comber, Newtownards, Co. Down BT23 5DX. Tel :02891872949. From ROI Tel: 4428 91872949.

Born: 06 March 1900, County Cork
Entered: 31 August 1917, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 27 February 1918 for health reasons

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Clongowes student; LEFT due to bad health

Born: 03 April 1864, Mallow, CountyCo Cork
Entered: 07 September 1881, Milltown Park, Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 1883 due to ill health

Early education at Clongowes

Born: 10 May, 1924, Kilrane House, Kilrane, County Wexford
Entered: 07 September 1942, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 24 May 1943

Father, Francis (Frank) was a merchant. Mother was Annie.

Youngest of seven brothers.

Early education was at St Peter’s College, Wexford, he then went to Clongowes Wood College SJ for six years.

Baptised at The Church of St Ruan, Kilrane, County Wexford
Confirmed at St Mary's Church, Tagoat, County Wexford, by Dr Codd of Ferns, May 1935

Born: 06 July 1896, County Armagh
Entered: 07 December 1914, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly
Died: 20 January 1982, Cabinteely, County Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 12 July 1915

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Clongowes and St Mary’s Rathmines student

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Desmond James Murphy (6 July 1896 – 30 January 1982) was an Irish first-class cricketer.

Born at Armagh, Murphy was educated at Clongowes Wood College in County Kildare.[1] Following World War I, Murphy attended University College Dublin, where he played club cricket for the university cricket team.[1] He later played for Pembroke Cricket Club,[1] and made one appearance in first-class cricket for Ireland against Scotland at Edinburgh in 1920.[2][3] Batting twice during the match, Murphy was dismissed in Ireland's first-innings without scoring by Arthur Sellers, while in their second-innings he was dismissed for the same score by Gerard Crole. He bowled thirteen overs of his leg break googly, but went wicket-less.[4] He later became the headmaster of St Gerard's School, Bray.[1] He died at Cabinteely in January 1982.[1]

Born: 25 March, 1846, Kilmuckridge, County Wexford
Entered: 13 September 1863, Milltown Park, Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 17 July 1864

Educated in Wexford and at Clongowes

Born: 11 July 1885, Ballylongford, County Kerry
Entered: 07 September 1903, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: April 1905

Parents were National School teachers.

Second eldest of four brothers, of whom the eldest is deceased. Five sisters of whom two are deceased.

Educated at local NS and then went to Clongowes Wood College

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Went to St Paul Minnesota USA to be a secular priest

Born: 29 April 1926, Mosspark, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Entered: 07 September 1943, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Died: 30 June 2009, Windsor ONT, Canada

Left Society of Jesus: 08 May 1944

Baptised Alexander Cormac Smith

Father, Sydney, was a Customs and Excise Officer and died in 1939. Mother was Brigid (Slattery).Famiily then lived at Ramore, West Avenue, Portstewart, County Derry.

Older of two boys with two younger sisters.

Early education was for two years at a Notre Dame Convent school in Glasgow, and then at St Aloysius College SJ, Glasgow for four years. When they moved to Portstewart he went to St Columb’s in Derry, and finally to Clongowes Wood College SJ for four and a half years.

Baptised at Our Lady of Lourdes RC Church, Lourdes Avenue, Carndonald, Glasgow, Scotland, 02/05/1926
Confirmed at St Peter's Church, , Hyndland Street, Partick, Glasgow, Scotland, 10/121932

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SMITH, Dr. Alexander "Cormac" PhD Passed away on June 30, 2009 at 83 years of age. Cherished husband of Izabella Smith (nee Wisniewska) for 50 years. Loving father of Christopher (Margaret), Steven (Nobue), Andrew and wife Kelley, and Julia. Dear grandfather of Alex, Jarrod, and Dylan. Loved brother of Sister Mary, and the late Kathleen Rowan, and the late Sydney Smith. Predeceased by his parents Sydney C. and Bridget Smith. Many nieces and nephews survive. Cormac earned his PhD from Dublin University and proudly served as an Officer of the Royal Navy. A mathematics professor for 30 years at the University of Windsor, he enjoyed sailing, literature and music. Member of the Kiwanis Club, an avid military historian and a loyal Manchester United fan. If you so desire, donations to the Palliative Care unit at Malden Park or charity of your choice would be appreciated by the family. Visiting Thursday 7-9 p.m. at Families First Funeral Home & Tribute Centre (519-969-5841) 3260 Dougall Ave. On Friday, family and friends are invited to meet at Corpus Christi Church (1400 Cabana Rd. W.) after 10:00 a.m., followed by Mass at 11:00 a.m. Cremation to follow.

Born: 21 November 1923, Kevit Castle, Crossdoney, County Cavan
Entered: 07 September 1942, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Died: 25 November 2012. Bloomfield Care Centre, Rathfarnham, Dublin City, County Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 28 August 1944 on health grounds

Father, Frederick was a doctor and farmer. Mother was Isabella.

Youngest of four boys with four sisters.

Early education at a Convent school in Kildare he then went to Clongowes Wood College SJ for seven years.

Baptised at St Felim's Catholic Church, Ballinagh Road, Bellananagh, County Cavan
Confirmed in Killashee Convent, Kilcullen, County Kildare, by Dr Cullen of Kildare and Leighlin, 22/04/1934

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Smith, Louis Patrick Frederick
Contributed by
Clavin, Terry
Smith, Louis Patrick Frederick (1923–2012), agricultural economist and academic, was born on 21 December 1923 in Kevit Castle in Crossdoney, Co. Cavan, the youngest of eight children of Dr Frederick Paul Smith, a farmer and ophthalmologist of Kevit Castle, and his wife Isabella (née Smith). He was born into a thriving branch of an ancient Cavan family, known originally as O'Gowan. His grandfather Philip Smith bought the Kevit Castle estate in the 1850s and later became Cavan's first catholic JP. Of his uncles, Philip H. Law Smith was county court judge for Limerick; Louis Smith, the crown solicitor for Cavan; and Alfred J. Smith an internationally respected UCD professor of midwifery and gynaecology. As well as having a successful ophthalmological practice, his father was elected to the first Cavan County Council and helped establish the local cooperative movement.

Louis was educated in Clongowes Wood College, Co. Kildare, before studying economics and history in UCD, graduating with a first class honours BA (1947). Continuing in UCD, he won the Coyne Memorial Scholarship while receiving a first class honours MA in economics (1948), writing a thesis comparing agriculture in Northern Ireland and the Republic. He also studied law at King's Inns, passing his bar exam finals, but preferred a career in economics and spent a year at Manchester University researching British agriculture and getting lecturing experience.

In January 1949 he sat the civil service examination for the position of third secretary of the Department of External Affairs. Despite otherwise coming first by a distance, he failed the oral Irish test, which he retook unsuccessfully in August and then September. The examiners were unmoved by his protests that the test was unfair so on 28 November the cabinet intervened by temporarily appointing him economic assistant in the trade section of the Department of External Affairs. This was at the behest of the external affairs minister, Seán MacBride (qv), who wanted Smith to explore the potential for trade liberalisation.

In 1951 he joined the Irish Agricultural Organisation Society (IAOS) for which he organised agricultural cooperatives in the northern parts of the state. Farmers were initially suspicious of the 'man from Dublin', but were won over by his lucidity and soft-spoken decency. That year he married Sheila Brady of Herbert Park, Dublin. They lived in Dartry, Dublin, later settling in Donnybrook, Dublin, and had three sons and three daughters. Tall and with refined features rendered distinguished by his prematurely grey hair (a family trait), Smith relaxed by playing tennis at the Fitzwilliam Lawn Tennis Club. He also enjoyed cycling, boating, rambling and do-it-yourself work, including furniture making, and was fluent in French.

Formatively impressed by what he saw on a research trip to Scandinavia, he lauded the progressive cooperative farming that prevailed there as a model for an Irish agricultural sector resistant to modern scientific and business methods. He concluded that Ireland's weak social structures had bred a suffocating state paternalism towards agriculture and that strong vocational institutions were needed to counteract this. Drawing upon his training as an economist and personal experience of cooperatives, he later wrote The evolution of agricultural co-operation (1961), which examined the application of the cooperative principle in various countries with a characteristic emphasis on the practical over the theoretical.

In 1954 he left the IAOS to join Macra na Feirme, a vocational association that trained young farmers. He directed its activities in economics and marketing, and became involved in efforts underway towards creating a farmers union spanning all commodity interests. Appointed economics adviser to the National Farmers Association (NFA) formed in January 1955, he helped establish the system of commodity committees that served as the basis of the NFA's organisation. (His brother Alfred Myles Smith served as the NFA's legal adviser and later as president of its Cavan executive and vice president of its Ulster executive.) At this time Louis worked a ninety-hour week making the case for the NFA to farmers.

His main function was to conduct research, an important role given that agricultural policy had previously been developed on a non-factual basis in response to short-term political exigencies. Part of a vanguard of experts who placed the Irish economic debate on a firm statistical footing, he established the NFA's credibility by churning out facts and informed arguments, clashing regularly with politicians and civil servants discomfited by the advent of a well-organised farmers lobby. Through his public lectures and newspaper pieces, he exerted an important influence over young farmers, most notably by persuading them of the advantages of cooperative livestock marts over unsanitary and inefficient cattle fairs.

From 1954 he combined his work in farm organisations with lecturing in agricultural economics and international trade in the UCD economics department. He also introduced courses on European institutions and was awarded a Ph.D. by UCD in 1955. His dual roles complemented each other, bringing home to him the importance of linking agricultural education with research. He criticised the government for failing to do so and also for starving agricultural education and research of resources and for maintaining political control over the farming advisory services. He identified a lack of training and basic schooling as the besetting weakness of Irish farming.

His research for the NFA revealed that Irish agriculture was unproductive and undercapitalised, but that much of this was attributable to government policies which lumbered farmers with high input and transport costs, arbitrary rates, mistaken breeding programs, volatile prices, weak cooperative marketing and export restrictions. Above all he showed how the strategy of seeking trade preferences for Irish farm produce in Britain had run aground once Britain began protecting its farmers through subsidies rather than tariffs. With their traditional British outlet emerging as the industrial world's most open food market, Irish farmers received the lowest prices in western Europe and became increasingly reliant on exporting unfinished cattle, a form of production that provided the least employment.

Pointing to the European common market as a secure, well-paying alternative, he highlighted the untenable nature of Ireland's position as a small, politically isolated food-exporting country, particularly as generously protected continental farmers produced ever-larger surpluses, which were then dumped on the British market. His arguments convinced previously sceptical farmers that there was a political solution to their economic difficulties, though his assertion that Ireland could join the EEC even if the UK did not was unrealistic. He was a founding member of the Irish Council of the European Movement, established in 1954, serving as its chairman (1962–5).

Having become a full-time UCD lecturer, he resigned his position in the NFA in January 1963, continuing for a time on the NFA's National Council. He received a doctorate in economic science from UCD in 1963 for his published work and became an associate professor of political economy (international trade) in 1969. Enthusiastic and engaging as a teacher, if at times impenetrable and absent-minded, he co-wrote an economics textbook, Elements of economics (1969), and expressed public sympathy for the late 1960s student protests against the UCD administration. A long-serving president of the Irish Council for Overseas Students, he was a council member of the Irish Federation of University Teachers and active in the Academic Staff Association as a committee member and secretary.

Continuing to comment regularly in the print media on farming, the EEC and economics, he had a well-regarded weekly farming column in the Irish Independent (1965–69) under the penname 'Agricola'. In 1971 he contributed to a booklet outlining the farming benefits to be derived from Ireland's membership of the EEC and later disputed claims made by anti-EEC campaigners concerning high food prices within EEC member states. After Ireland joined the EEC in 1973, he opposed efforts to subject the newly enriched farming sector to meaningful taxation. He also argued influentially that Ireland's currency link with a depreciating sterling reduced the benefits of EEC membership by causing high inflation.

He was a director in a firm of management consultants and of the South Dublin Provident Society, and was retained as an economics consultant by various semi-state agencies, the European Commission and AIB. His 1971 AIB appointment reflected his successful efforts to encourage the banks to lend more to farmers. During the 1960s and 1970s, he published a labour survey of the Cooley peninsula as well as studies of the Irish food processing and retailing sectors, the finance costs associated with Irish farming and the compliance costs associated with the Irish tax system. He condemned the high tax policies of the 1970s and 1980s for discouraging savings, employment and investment, and devised tax reform proposals on behalf of the Irish Federation for the Self-Employed. A longstanding member of the Christian Family Movement, he drew attention to the rapid 1970s increase in Irish working mothers and annoyed feminists by suggesting this would put families under strain and encourage lesbianism.

He co-wrote two histories, Milk to market (1989) and Farm organisations in Ireland: a century of progress (1996): the former capably described the role of the Leinster Milk Producers Association in supplying Dublin; the latter contains invaluable anecdotal material relating to the founding and early years of the NFA, though as a history it is workmanlike, partial and sketchy in places. After retiring from UCD in 1988, he kept active by playing tennis into his mid-eighties before switching to snooker and swimming. Following a long illness, he died in the Bloomfield Care Centre, Rathfarnham, Dublin, on 25 November 2012. He was buried in Mount Venus Cemetery, Rathfarnham, and left a will disposing of €1.26 million.

Sources
GRO, (birth, marriage cert.); Ir. Independent, passim, esp.: 2 Nov. 1943; 29 Oct. 1948; 24 May 1963 (profile); 14 Aug. 1979; NA, Dept. of the Taoiseach, S14603, 'Irish test for the post of third secretary: complaint of Louis P. F. Smith' (1949); Louis P. F. Smith, 'Agricultural education by co-operatives', The Irish Monthly, vol. 79, no. 935 (May 1951), 224–30; Nationalist and Leinster Times, 13 Dec. 1952; 15 Jan. 1965; Ir. Times, passim, esp.: 23 Oct. 1954; 3 Aug. 1955; 4 Aug. 1956 (profile); 21 Sept. 1957; 25 Aug. 1959; 28 Nov. 2012; 15 Dec. 2012 (obit.); Louis P. F. Smith, 'The role of farmers organizations', Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, vol. 44, no. 173 (spring 1955), 49–56; Kilkenny People, 6 Aug. 1955; Cork Examiner, 6 Mar. 1956; Irish Farmers' Journal, 24 Aug. (profile), 14 Dec. 1957; 4 Nov. 1961; 1 May 1971; 1 Dec. 2012; Ir. Press, passim, esp.: 29 Oct. 1957; 6 May, 11 Nov. 1969; 2 May 1972; National Observer, vol i, no. 1 (July 1958); Southern Star, 16 July 1960; Sunday Press, 27 Aug., 29 Oct. 1961; 3 Nov. 1963; 24 Apr. 1966; Kerryman, 17 Feb. 1962; Sunday Independent, 27 Oct. 1974; 19 May 2013; Hibernia, 2 May 1975; European Opinion, Dec. 1976; Report of the President; University College Dublin, 1988–1989, 185–6; Louis P. F. Smith, Farm organisations in Ireland: a century of progress (1996); Gary Murphy, In search of the promised land: the politics of post war Ireland (2009)

Forename: Louis, Patrick, Frederick
Surname: Smith
Gender: Male
Career: Agriculture, Education, Scholarship, Social Sciences
Religion: Catholic
Born 21 December 1923 in Co. Cavan
Died 25 November 2012 in Co. Dublin

Born: 10 February 1882, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 07 September 1899, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly1900

Left Society of Jesus:

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

Born: 27 August 1849, Monkstown, Cork City, County Cork
Entered: 05 July 1869, Milltown Park, Dublin
Died 27 November 1921,

Left Society of Jesus: 27 December 1871

Later Sir Abraham Sutton, Mayor of Cork. The Rochestown Park Hotel in Cork was built as his home

Educated at St Vincent’s Seminary, Cork and Clongowes

1869-1870: Milltown Park, Dublin, Novitiate
1870-1871: Manresa, Roehampton, London, England, (ANG), Rhetoric

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - LEFT after going to Roehampton, feeling he had no vocation.

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Abraham SUTTON

Background
SUTTON, Abraham was born in August 1849. Son of late Abraham Sutton of Monkstown, County Cork.

Education
Clongowes

Career
High Sheriff of Cork, 1903. Chairman of Suttons Limited. Member of Cork Municipal Council.

Justice of the Peace, Company Cork.

Membership
Clubs: Stephen’s Green, Dublin. Cork, Cork; R.C.Y.C., Queenstown.

Connections
Father:
Abraham Sutton

Born: 24 June 1875, Gorey, County Wexford
Entered: 07 September 1895, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 14 September 1896

Mother moved to Northumberland Road, Donnybrook, Dublin after father’s death.

Educated at Clongowes Wood College

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - A Ward of Chancery, so there might have been an issue about his taking First Vows.