Born: 29 June 1908, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 02 February 1934, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 08 August 1834

Born: 12 April 1912, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 19 August 1923, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 10 February 1934

Born: 21 June 1850, Birr, County Offaly
Entered: 26 September 1868, Milltown Park, Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 27 April 1870

Early education at St Stanislaus College SJ, Tullabeg

Born: 05 February 1878, Hyderabad, Sindh, India
Entered: 14 August 1895, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1896

Educated at Belvedere College SJ

Father was in the Indian Civil Service and came home from Hyderabad to Dublin. Family lived at North Circular Road, Dublin

Step sister a nun of the Daughters of the Cross in England

Born: 06 February 1913, Taghmon, County Wexford
Entered: 03 September 1930, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 27 April 1932

Father was a District Inspector with the RIC and famiily lived at Church Avenue, Rathmines, Dublin

Middle of three boys with four sizsters.

Early education at a Convent school in Wexford he went to the Christian Brothers school, Gorey, and then six years with Christain Brothers Wexford Town. He then spent three years at St Peter’s College, Wexford, and one year at Synge Street.

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - LEFT - “too holy for the Society”

Born: 14 June 1874, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 31 Secember 1895, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1896

Born: 05 June 1882, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 09 October 1904, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1905

Born: 22 January 1877, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 05 January 1898, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1898

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Dismissed from Novitiate.

Born: 26 May 1871, Dublin City County Dublin
Entered: 07 September 1900, Milltown Park, Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 1900

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Post Office Clerk before entry; LEFT and later became a Priest in the Dublin Diocese

Born: 05 April 1878, Rathgar Road, Dublin, County Dublin
Entered: 14 Augist 1895, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly
Died: 03 November 1943, McKees Rocks, PA, USA

Left Society of Jesus: December 1898

Sister was a novice in Loreto Abbey Rathfarnham

Educated at Belvedere College SJ, CUS and Mungret College SJ, Limerick

1895-1897: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly, Novitiate
1897-1898: Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin, Juniorate

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - A ward in chancery, hence delay in his taking First Vows. At the end of two years he took “Vows of Devotion” 15/08/1897. LEFT December 1898 from Philosophy before pronouncing Vows

https://digital.library.pitt.edu/collection/duquesne-light-photograph-collection
Duquesne Light Photograph Collection

What's in the entire collection?
The Duquesne Light Photograph Collection contains approximately 2,255 negatives, the majority of which are 5×7 inch cellulose nitrate negatives. The photographs feature electrical stations, employees, and their families, company outings as well Pittsburgh scenes, including several views of Pittsburgh floods, the 1929 Light's Golden Jubilee honoring the anniversary of Edison's incandescent light bulb, the Cathedral of Learning, and McKees Rocks.

About the Photographer.

All of the photographs in this collection were taken by Patrick Joseph (P.J.) Tyrrell, who was born in Ireland on April 5, 1878. He attended the University of Dublin where he studied electrical engineering. Tyrell moved to Pittsburgh in 1900 and began his career with Duquesne Light in 1904 with the opening of the Brunot Island Power Station. He worked for Duquesne Light Company for 39 years. Living most of his Pittsburgh-area life in McKee's Rocks, Tyrrell died on November 3, 1943.

Born: 27 March 1958, Marian Road, Rathfarnham, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 23 August 1976, Manresa House, Dollymount, Dublin
Died: 11 July 2015, Rathfarnham, Dublin City, County Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 28 March 1978

Ent as Scholastic - by 1977 a Brother;

Gerard Michael Joseph Twomey

Father, Timothy was a Garda at Kevin Street Station. Mother was Philomena (McEvoy).

Eldest with 1 Sister and 1 Brother

Educated at Ballyroan Boys National School, Ballyroan Road, Templeogue, Dublin and Coláiste Éanna, Hillside Park, Ballyroan Road, Rathfarnham, Dublin

Baptised at St Andrew’s Church, Westland Row, Dublin, 04/04/1958
Confirmed at Church of the Holy Spirit, Marian Road, Rathfarnham, Dublin, by Dr McQuaid of Dublin, 31/05/1968

https://rip.ie/death-notice/gerard-ger-twomey-dublin-dublin-14-249279

The death has occurred of

Gerard (Ger) Twomey
Rathfarnham, Dublin 14, Dublin

Twomey 11/07/15. Rathfarnham, D14. Suddenly at his home, Gerard (Ger), son of the late Tim and Philomena, predeceased by his brother Michael. Ger will be sadly missed by his sister Mairead, brother-in-law Mick, nephews Dermot, Kevin, Conor and Tom, niece Michelle, relatives and friends.

May he rest in peace

Removal on Wednesday morning to the Church of Holy Spirit, Ballyroan arriving at 9.45am for 10am Requiem Mass. Funeral thereafter to Bohernabreena Cemetery. All enquires to Massey Bros, Templeogue Villiage. Ph 014907601.

Date Published:
Monday 13th July 2015

Date of Death:
Saturday 11th July 2015

Born: 04 February 1858, County Down
Entered: 07 January 1886, Milltown Park, Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 02 August 1886 for health reasons

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - LEFT on account of permanent headache

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.

Born: 04 December 1850, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 08 September 1870, Milltown Park, Dublin - Hiberniae for Neo-Aurelianensis Province (HIB for NOR)

Left Society of Jesus: 1871

Early education at Belvedere College SJ

1870-1871: Milltown Park, Dublin (HIB for NOR), Novitiate
1871-1872: Notre Dame de l'Ermitage, Lons-le-Saunier, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France (LUGD), Novitiate

Born: 1563, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 19 September 1580, San Andrea, Rome, Italy

Left Society of Jesus: 1582

◆ Old/16 has “P Walter Taylor”; DOB 1563 Dublin; Ent 19/09/1580 Rome; RIP 1609 Rome

◆ Old/17 has “Tailero” Ent 19/09/1580 St Andrea

◆ CATSJ I-Y has DOB Dublin; Ent 19/09/1580 Rome;

◆ Calendar of MacErlean Transcipts Addenda Irishmen who entered Rome and Spain 1561-1772 (Finegan)
Walter Taylor
19 September 1580 Entered St Andrea Rome

Born: August 1827, County Armagh
Entered: 26 June 1862, Milltown Park, Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 1862, for health reasons

Born: 14 May 1862, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 04 May 1885, Loyola House, Dromore, County Down
Died: 08 July 1913, Berne, Switzerland

Left Society of Jesus: 1888

◆ https://www.sinnottnz.com/getperson.php?personID=I10676&tree=tree5
Name Joseph Osmond Synnott
Born 14 May 1862 [1, 2]
Gender Male
Name Joseph Osmund Synnott
Residence 1913 53 rue de la paix, Nice, Alpes Maritimes, France

Died 8 Jul 1913 Berne, Switzerland

Probate 25 Aug 1913 London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location [3]

Born: 09 February 1921, Magerafelt, County Derry
Entered: 14 November 1939, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly
Died: 25 June 2009, Sutherland, NSW, Australia

Left Society of Jesus: 11 December 1940

Father, Patrick, (a Donegal man) worked in the Department of Justice in Dublin. Mother, Teresa (Tessie Maguire) was a Roscommon woman. The family moved to Morehampton Road, Donnybrook, Dublin.

Eighth in a family of 12, with six brothers (he was second youngest) and five sisters.

Early education was at St Mary’s Haddington Road, then went to Synge Street CBS at age 10. After school he went for one year to study Medicine at UCD.

Baptised at St Eugene's Cathedral, Creggan Street, Derry, 13/02/1921
Confirmed at St Kevin’s Church, Harrington Street, Dublin, by Dr Wall of Dublin, 01/03/1932

https://tributes.smh.com.au/obituaries/8112/plunkett-joseph-sweeney/
Sydney Morning Herald

SWEENEY
Plunkett Joseph

Passed away peacefully on Tuesday 25th June, aged 98 years. Beloved husband of Joyce. Much loved father of Austin, Vincent, Kevin, Patricia and Desmond. Cherished grandfather of Liam, Patrick, Benjamin, Zachary, James, Ellen, David, Caitlin, Christopher and Jade.

Requiem Mass for Plunkett will be celebrated at the West Chapel, Woronora Memorial Park, Linden Street, Sutherland on Monday 1st July, 2019 at 1:30pm.

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.

◆ https://prabook.com/web/abraham.sutton/755471
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: 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: 29 September 1922, Ennis, County Clare
Entered: 07 September 1946, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 10 December 1946

Father, Michael, was a building contractor. Mother was Mary (Bredin).

4 Brothers and 3 Sisters.

Educated at St Flannan's College, Clonroad More, Ennis, County Clare. He then did a BEng (Mechanical and Electrical) at UCD

He lived at Kimmage Road West, Terenure, Dublin before entry

Baptised at St Columba's Church, Drumcliff, Binden Street, Lifford, Ennis, County Clare, 02/10/1922
Confirmed at St Columba's Church, Drumcliff, Binden Street, Lifford, Ennis, County Clare, by Dr Fogarty of Killaloe, 22/04/1934

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

https://www.dib.ie/biography/smith-louis-patrick-frederick-a10051#:~:text=Smith%2C%20Louis%20Patrick%20Frederick%20(1923,wife%20Isabella%20(n%C3%A9e%20Smith).

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.

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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: Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 25 December 1762, San Andrea, Rome, Italy

Left Society of Jesus: 1763

◆ In Chronological Catalogue Sheet as Ent 25/09/1762

◆ Old/15 (1) has “Br” Ent 25/09/1762

◆ Old/17 has “Smit” Ent 26/12/1762 St Andrea (not in Roman Cat 1764)

◆ CATSJ I-Y has “Smit”; DOB Dublin; Ent 25/12/1762 St Andrea
In “Olanda” - Irlanda?
1762 Became a lay brother at St Andrea, Rome

◆ Calendar of MacErlean Transcipts Addenda Irishmen who entered Rome and Spain 1561-1772 (Finegan)
Henry Smith (FC) of Dublin
07 September 1765 Entered St Andrea Rome

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

https://windsorstar.remembering.ca/obituary/alexander-smith-1066532921

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: 30 September 1878, Ballybought, Tomhaggard, County Wexford
Entered: 22 April 1903, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly
Ordained: 21 December 1902

Left Society of Jesus: 06 February 1904 for health reasons

Born: 25 January 1920, Gortmore, Omagh, County Tyrone
Entered: 28 September 1940, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 27 June 1942

Father, John, was a Guard on the Great Northern Railway. Mother was Mary (Slevin). Family moved when he was aged 3 to Lackaboy, Enniskillen, County Fermanagh.

2 Brothers and 1 Sister.

Early education at the Convent of Mercy Enniskillen and then at the Presentation Brothers, Enniskillen - St Michael's College, Chanterhill Road, Enniskillen, County Fermanagh. After school in 1939 he went to UCD on a scholarship and studied Engineering. Also studied violin and piano at the RIAM. When livinbg in Dublin he resided at Longwood Avenue, South Circular Road, Dublin.

Baptised at Sacred Heart Church, Church Street, Omagh, County Tyrone, 26/01/1920
Confirmed at St Michael's Church, Darling Street, Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, 05/0/1929

Born: 09 November 1922, O’Daly Road, Drumcondra, Dublin
Entered: 16 September 1941, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 13 December 1941

Father was Michael, a slater, and Mother was Mary (O’Hanlon).

2 younger Brothers and 9 Sisters (6 older)

Educated at O’Connell’s schools, Dublin.

Baptised at St Mary’s Pro Cathedral, Marlborough Street, Dublin, 10/11/1922
Confirmed at St Agatha’s Church, North William Street, Dublin, by Dr Wall of Dublin, 21/03/1933

Applied to the Holy Ghost Fathers for entry after leaving.

Born: 09 October 1922, Melrose Avenue, Fairview, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 16 September 1941, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 01 March 1943

Father, Thomas, was a Civil Servant and died in 1939. Mother was Mary (Farrelly) then lived by private means.

Older of two boys with an older sister.

Early education was two years at St Pat’s BNS, Drumcondra and then seven years at O’Connells school.

Baptised at The Church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Fairview Strand, Fairview, Dublin, 15/10/1922
Confirmed at St Agatha’s North William Street, Dublin by Dr Wall of Dublin, 27/02/1935

Born: 10 September 1863, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 14 August 1893, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: March 1894

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Clerk at GSR Rail before entry; LEFT after six months and was received into Mount Mellary

Born: 1538, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 24 November 1573, San Andrea, Rome, Italy
Ordained: pre entry

Left Society of Jesus: 1575

◆ Old/16 has : P Nicolaus Segrave”; DOB 1538 Dublin; Ent 02/02/1573 Rome

◆ Old/17 has “Sedgrave” Ent 24/11/1573 St Andrea

◆ CATSJ I-Y has Ent 02/02/1573 Rome;

◆ Fr Edmund Hogan SJ “Catalogica Chronologica” :
Son of James and Margaret née Bathe

◆ Calendar of MacErlean Transcipts Addenda Irishmen who entered Rome and Spain 1561-1772 (Finegan)
Nicholas Sedgrave
24 November 1573 Entered St Andrea Rome

Born: 27 October 1843, County Tipperary
Entered: 26 November 1879, Milltown Park, Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 1890

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Brother Novice; Farm labourer before entry

Born: 03 June 1857, County Dublin
Entered: 09 October 1879, Milltown Park, Dublin
Ordained: pre entry

Left Society of Jesus: 1881

Born: 15 January 1850, Murroe, County Limerick
Entered: 11 October 1874, Milltown Park, Dublin
Ordained: pre entry

Left Society of Jesus: 11 February 1876

Education at St Patrick’s College Thurles, Louvain University

Born: 06 July 1845, Upper Temple Street, Dublin, County Dublin
Entered: 07 September 1862, Milltown Park, Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 03 February 1863

Educated at St Stasnislaus College SJ, Tullabeg; College Paters Jozefieten, Melle, Flanders, Belgium; Diocesan Seminary Navan and finally Belvedere College SJ

Born: 01 January 1920, Clonturk Park, Drumcondra, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 24 April 1940, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 24 February 1942

Brother Novice

Father was Patrick and Mother was Mary, who was deceased at time of application.

2 Brothers and 1 Sister

Educated at St Vincent's Secondary School, Finglas Road, Glasnevin, Dublin up to Intermediate level. He then worked at Denny’s Factory, Fade Street, Dublin, and Carton Brothers Egg exporters in Dublin.

After leaving was a cook at St Joseph’s College, Temple Road, Blackrock, a Vincentian seminary.

Born: 29 September 1849, Cork City, County Cork
Entered: 29 August 1873, Milltown Park, Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 14 February 1874

Educated at CBC Cork and Clondalkin and Mount Mellary

Born: 06 March 1924, Kevin Villa, O’Connell Avenue, Limerick City, County Limerick
Entered: 07 September 1942, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 08 May 1943

Born in Dublin

Father, Thomas, was a post office clerk. Mother was Ellen Nellie (O’Shaughnessy). Family also lived at Mount Vincent View, O’Connell Avenue, Limerick City, County Limerick

Youngest of four boys with two sisters.

Early education was at a Convent school and then at Crescent College SJ, Limerick.

Baptised at St Michael’s Church, Denmark Street, Limerick, 20/03/1924
Confirmed at St Joseph’s Church, O’Connell Avenue, Limerick, by Dr Keane of Limerick, 29/06/1936

Born: 29 August 1864, Borrisoleigh, County Tipperary
Entered: 07 September 1880, Milltown Park, Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 1882

Educated at Sacred Heart College, Crescent , Limerick; Belvedere College SJ

Born: 16 August 1905, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 30 September 1924, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 18 June 1926

Born: 22 February 1922, Rutland Street, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 21 April 1941, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 07 November 1942

Father, Bernard, was a Civil Servant. Mother was Margaret (Holmes). Family lived at Seafort Gardens, Sandymount, Dublin

Youngest of three boys with one sister.

Early education was at a National school in Sandymount and then at the Christian Brothers in Westland Row.

Baptised at St Mary’s Pro Cathedral, Marlborough Street, Dublin, 24/02/1922
Confirmed at St Mary's, Star of the Sea, Sandymount Road, Dublin, by Dr Byrne of Dublin, 08/03/1934

Born: 28 August 1913, Rathgar Road, Rathgar, Dublin City
Entered: 07 December 1932, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 09 September 1934

Father was a Government official and died in 1930.

Third of four boys.

Early education was at a Convent school and then at Belvedere College SJ.

Born: 30 October 1906, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 01 September 1926, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: November 1926

Educated at Mungret College SJ Apostolic School

Born: 16 March 1922, Phibsborough, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 07 September 1942, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 06 February 1943

Father, Charles, was employed by the Dublin Transport Company. Mother was Margaret (Caulfield). Family lived at Newgrange Road, Cabra, Dublin City, County Dublin

Mother was a first cousin of Charles Moloney SJ - RIP 1978

Younger of two boys with two sisters.

Educated at a Convent school and then CBS St Mary’s, Dublin for six years, He then spent one year in Dublin College and one year in Mungret College SJ

Born: 05 September 1925, St Kevin’s Park, Dartry Road, Dartry, Dublin City
Entered: 07 September 1944, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Died: 30 October 2009, Howth Hill Lodge Nursing Home, Thormanby Road, Howth, County Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 29 March 1945

Father, Alphonsus (Joseph), was an accountant with the Land Commission. Mother was Catherine (Heffernan)

Second of three boys

Early education was at a Convent school in Dublin for three years, and then at Belvedere College SJ for ten.

Baptised at St Andrew’s Church, Westland Row, Dublin, 15/09/1925
Confirmed at St Mary’s Pro Cathedral, Marlborough Streeet, Dublin, by Dr Wall oif Dublin, 12/02/1937

https://rip.ie/death-notice/cormac-james-orourke-dublin-howth-85462

The death has occurred of

Cormac James O'ROURKE
Howth, Dublin

Late of St. Kevin's Park, Dartry. In the exceptional care of all the staff in Howth Hill Lodge Nursing Home. A kind and gentle man, much beloved husband of Eileen. Deeply regretted and sadly missed by his loving family, sons and daughters Paul, Neil, Andrew, Janet, Emer and Gregory, grandchildren and extended family and friends.

Date Published:
Monday 2nd November 2009

Date of Death:
Friday 30th October 2009

Born: 05 August 1929, Bantry Road, Drumcondra, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 06 September 1947, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Died: 25 March 2006, Seremban, Malaysia

Left Society of Jesus: 24 December 1947

Donal Raphael Mary O’Holohan

Parents were Patrick O’Holohan and Winifred (Byrne). Father was a Civil Servant.

7 Boys and 3 Girls

Educated at Belvedere College SJ for 10 years

Baptised at St Columba’s Catholic Church, Iona Road, Glasnevin, Dublin, 09/08/1929
Confirmed at St Mary’s Pro Cathedral, Marlborough Street, Dublin, by Dr Wall of Dublin, 31/01/1940

https://notices.irishtimes.com/death/o-holohan/2380867

O'HOLOHAN: Death

O'HOLOHAN (Seremban, Malaysia and formerly of Bantry Road, Dublin 9) - March 25, 2006, after a short illness, Dr Donal Raphael, M.D., F.R.C.P., Irl., seventh son of the late Patrick and Winifred and beloved brother of Fr John S.J., Frank, Gabriel, Geraldine (Murphy), Dympna (Cunningham) and Nesta (Tuomey), and of the late Fr Colum S.J., Brendan, Lorcan and Tony; deeply regretted by his brothers and sisters, nieces, nephews, brother-in-law, relatives and friends. Rest in peace. Requiem Mass was celebrated in Seremban on March 26, 2006 followed by cremation. A Memorial Mass and interment of ashes in the family vault in Deans Grange, Dublin, will take place in July.

Born: 21 May 1924, Marlborough Street, Derry, County Derry
Entered: 28 September 1943, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 11 September 1945

“Louie”

Father, Joseph, was Director of the Municipal School of Music in Dublin. Mother was Mary (Byrne). The family resided at Merrion Road, Dublin.

Fourth of seven boys with two sisters.

Early education at Derry and Dublin Convent schools he then went to the Christian Brothers school in Westland Row, and then to Belvedere College SJ for six years.

Baptised at St Eugene's Cathedral, Creggan Street, Derry, 22/05/1924
Confirmed at St Andrew’s Church, Westland Row, Dublin, 20/02/1935

Younger brother of Oliver O’Brien - LEFT as priest for Adelaide, Australia Diocese 1993; and Vincent O’Brien - LEFT 1948

LEFT 16 October 1943 for a medical treatment ; Reentered in November 1943; LEFT again 11 November 1945

Born: 04 October 1911, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 02 September 1929, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 04 December 1929

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

Born: 17 February 1880, Westport, County Mayo
Entered: 07 September 1897, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1899

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

Born: 05 December 1880, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 23 May 1896, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 17 May 1897

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Brother Novice; LEFT. Too young.

Born: 27 January 1870, Nile Street, Cork City, County Cork
Entered: 12 November 1890, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly
Died: 11 November 1904, Claremont Hotel, Howth Road, Howth, County Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 1891 for health reasons

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Journalist before entry. LEFT for health reasons

◆ https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/O'Mahony-169

John Francis O'Mahony
Born 27 Jan 1870 in 25 Nile Street, Cork, County Cork, Irelandmap
Son of John Francis O'Mahony and Mary Ellen (Sheehan) O'Mahony
Brother of Daniel John O'Mahony, Mary O'Mahony, Hannah O'Mahony, Ellen O'Mahony, Norah O'Mahony and Christina Mary O'Mahony
Husband of Honora (Tynan) O'Mahony — married 29 Apr 1895 in Rathfarnham, County Dublin, Irelandmap
DESCENDANTS descendants
Father of Gerard John Cullen O'Mahony, John Finbar Michael O'Mahony and Donal John Patrick O'Mahony
Died 11 Nov 1904 at age 34 in Claremont Hotel, Howth, County Dublin, Ireland

John was the son of John O'Mahony a spirits dealer or vintner, and Mary Sheehan[1].

He was considered to be an up and coming barrister when he died in 1904[2] aged just 34.

It's alleged that he was the basis for the character J. J. Molloy in James Joyce's Ullyses[3].

His sister in law Katharine Tynan published a book called "A Little Book For John O’Mahony’s Friends" after his death[4].

Born: 21 April 1878, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 14 August 1895, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: November 1895

Born: 02 July 1916, Prior Park House, Clonmel, County Tipperary
Entered: 07 September 1934, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 12 November 1936 for health reasons

Father was in the motor trade and coach manufacturing business. Mother died in June 1927, and father remarried some years later.

Eldest of the first family of two boys. Second family is three girls and two boys.

Early education was at the Christian Brothers school Clonmel he then went to Mount Melleray for two years.

1934-1936: St Mary's, Emo, County Laois, Novitiate
1936-1937: Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin, Juniorate

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Mount Mellaray student; Went to Rathfarnham without Vows, and LEFT from there due to ill health

Born: 20 April 1885, Heytesbury Street, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 07 April 1901, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: August 1903

Father was an Inspector in the DMP. Family lived at Leinster Road, Rathmines

3rd Eldest of four sons and three sisters.

Educated at Synge Street, then St Mary’s College CSp, Rathmines

Born: 04 January 1877, North Strand, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 13 November 1902, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 13 May 1904

Father was a general merchant and died in 1882. Mother, supported by private means, lived at Portland Street, Dublin

One of six boys and two sisters.

Early education at St Laurence O’Toole’s Convent school, at 10 he went to O’Connell’s Schools for three years, then the Model School in Marlborough Street for 6 months, and then Skerry's Academy for 3 months.

At age fourteen he went into business and remained there for 7 years.

He then went to St Joseph’s Academy, Bagenalstown and matriculated form there in 1901, prior to which he had a private tutor for a year and a half.

Born: 18 October 1905, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 01 September 1924, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 23 May 1925

Born: 02 July 1914, Tritonville Road, Sandymount, Dublin
Entered: 07 September 1932, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 17 February 1933

Father was an architect with Dublin Corporation.

Middle child with two sisters.

Early education was at a Holy Faith Convent school and then at Belvedere College SJ for eight years. He also spent two years at a doing motor and mechanical engineering. Technical School

Born: 05 January 1923, Kilteevan, County Roscommon
Entered: 07 September 1953, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 22 January 1954

Father was Donal, a Teacher, farmer and Senator. Mother was Mary (McCloskey), Family lived at Tarmon, Castlerea, County Roscommon.

1 Brother and 2 Sisters

Educated at Summerhill College, Caltragh, Sligo and Coláiste Éinde, Threadneedle Road, Salthill, Galway. He then went to St Pat’s College, Drumcondra and acquired a Singing and Bi-lingual Cert.. After that he went to UCG and got a BA and HDip

He then worked at Tarmon NS, Castlerea, County Roscommon, then at St John the Apostle NS, Knocknacarra, Galway, then at St Colmcilles Catholic National School, Moone, County Kildare and then at Ballyvaughan National School, Ballyvaughan, County Clare.

Baptised at Saint Laebhan's Church, Kilkeevan, Castlerea, County Roscommon, 07/01/1923
Conformed at Saint Laebhan's Church, Kilkeevan, Castlerea, County Roscommon, by Dr Doorly of Elphin, 04/05/1931

Born: 24 March 1912, Athlone, County Westmeath
Entered: 07 September 1932, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 10 February 1933 for family reasons

Father was a Circuit Manager for ROP Limited. The family lived at Botanic Avenue, Glasnevin, Dublin

Eldest of three boys with three sisters.

Early education was at the Marist Brothers in Athlone and then the family move to Cork for two years. Then they moved to Dublin and he went to O’Connells School, and finally Belvedere College SJ.

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: 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

◆ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond_Murphy

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: 07 August 1885, Dufferin Avenue, South Circular Road, Dublin City
Entered: 11 April 1901, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1902 for health reasons

Father was a company secretary. He had three brothers and three sisters, of whom he is the second youngest. Siblings in America and one sister a nun in Vienna.

Was educated at O’Connell’s Schools Dublin and then Belvedere College SJ. Left early for health reasons.

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: 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

https://notices.irishtimes.com/death/mcswiney-myles/57575278

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: 15 August 1917, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 07 September 1935, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 18 September 1935

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - O’Connells student; LEFT during 1st Probation

Born: 12 October 1854, Carrickmore, County Tyrone
Entered: 13 April 1873, Milltown Park, Dublin - Hiberniae for Taurensis Province (HIB for TAUR)

Left Society of Jesus: 1874

Early education at local NS and a Classical school

Born: 22 June 1920, Ballybough Road, Fairview, Dublin, City, County Dublin
Entered: 07 September 1942, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Died: 20 April 2007, Kimmage Manor, Whitehall Road, Dublin City, County Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 08 April 1943

Father, John, was a monotype setter, and died in June 1920. Mother, Harriet (O’Toole), was then supported by private means. Family lived at Philipsburgh Avenue, Fairview, Dublin City, County Dublin

Younger of two boys with one sister.

Educated at a National School he then went to St Canice’s Boys School in Finglas. He then went to O’Connells school. He then went to a Commercial College and then went to work at Browne & Nolans Ltd for two and a half years as a compositors apprentice. He then went to the Apostolic School at Mungret College SJ

After leaving he Joined the Holy Ghost Fathers (Spiritans).

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/157264081/desmond-mcmahon

Fr. Desmond McMahon C.S.Sp.

Birth: 22 Jun 1920, County Dublin, Ireland

Death: 20 Apr 2007 (aged 86), Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Burial: Dardistown Cemetery and Crematorium Cloghran, County Dublin, Ireland

Plot
Spiritan Plots, St. Pappin's Section

Fr. Desmond McMahon C.S.Sp.

Birth.

Desmond McMahon, son of John McMahon and Harriet McMahon, formerly O'Toole, of 78 Ballybough Road, Dublin, was born on 22 June 1920 at The Rotunda Hospital, Dublin.

His father was a Compositor.

Death Notice.

McMAHON (C.S.Sp.) (Fr. Desmond) (Kimmage Manor, Dublin 12, and formerly of Nigeria, Kenya, Cameroon, Botswana and College of Technology, Bolton Street, Dublin.) - April 20, 2007, (peacefully), brother of the late Bridget (Byrne) and Michael, cousin of Fr. R. Thornton C.S.Sp.; deeply regretted by his nephews Desmond and Kieran, his nieces Anne-Marie, Eithne (Agnew) and Patricia (Woods) and their families, his extended family and confreres. Rest in peace. Removal this (Monday) evening after prayers at 4.40 o'clock in the Misson House, Kimmage Manor, to the Church of the Holy Spirit, Kimmage Manor, arriving at 5 o'clock. Funeral Mass tomorrow (Tuesday) at 10.30 o'clock followed by interment afterwards in Dardistown Cemetery.

His name is included amongst his Confreres

Born: 08 August 1924, Castleknock, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 13 September 1947, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 13 May 1948

Father was James, a publican, and Mother was May (Carroll).

1 Brother and 2 Sisters

Educated for 10 years at Belvedere College SJ, and then spent two years at Mount Mellaray doing Philosophy

Subsequently went to All Hallows College as a candidate for priesthood and by 1951 was in 2nd year of Theology

Born: 17 October 1914, York Terrace, Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin
Entered: 07 September 1939, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 23 March 1940

Father, James, was a chef in Collins’ Barracks, had been a cook in Gardiner Street community. Mother was Kathleen (Brennan). Family resided at Northbrook Terrace, North Strand, Dublin City

Eldest of six boys with one sister.

Early education was nine years at St Joseph’s Christian Brothers school. He then went to work, studying telegraphy. He worked from 1925-1937 in the GPO, Dublin. In 1937 he went back to school at Belmont House, Galloping Green, Stillorgan. Jesuit Provincial L Kieran SJ sent him then to Mungret College SJ

Baptised at St Michael’s Church, Marine Road, Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin, 18/10/1914
Confirmed at The Church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Fairview Strand, Fairview, Dublin, by Dr Byrne of Dublin, 22/03/1927

Born: 04 April 1920, Northbrook Terrace, North Strand, Dublin City
Entered: 14 September 1938, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 10 February 1940

Father, James, was a chef in Collins’ Barracks, had been a cook in Gardiner Street community. Mother was Kathleen (Brennan)

Third of six boys with one sister.

Early education was nine years at St Joseph’s Christian Brothers school, Marino and then at O’Connells school.

Baptised at Church of St Laurence O’Toole, Seville Place, Dublin, 12/03/1920
Confirmed at St Vincent De Paul Catholic Church, Griffith Avenue, Drumcondra, Dublin, by Dr Byrne of Dublin, 18/03/1931

Born: 14 February 1866, Enniskillen, County Fermanagh
Entered: 22 October 1883, Milltown Park, Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 1884

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

Born: 30 August 1845, Belfast, County Antrim
Entered: 04 April 1867, Milltown Park, Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 12 September 1868 for health reasons

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - LEFT for health reasons

Born: 22 October 1865, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 01 February 1885, Loyola House, Dromore, County Down

Left Society of Jesus: 1886

Born: 12 October 1924, Leitrim Street, Cork City, County Cork
Entered: 04 December 1947, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 14 March 1949

Baptised Daniel Bartholomew McGrath

Father, John, was a Postal Inspector employed in Cork City Post Office, and Mother was Mary (McNamara) The family was supported by private means and Mother managed a pub licence in a poor area.

Elder of two boys with four sisters.

Early education was in Presentation Convent, Cork he went to North Monastery, Cork for ten years. After school he took a position in the Exchequer and Audit Department in Merrion Street, and was living at Philipsburgh Terrace, Fairview, Dublin.

Baptised at Cathedral of St Mary & St Anne, Cathedral Street, Shandon, Cork City, 14/11/1924
Confirmed at Cathedral of St Mary & St Anne, Cathedral Street, Shandon, Cork City, bu Dr Cohalen of Cork, 31/05/1936

Born: 23 December 1919, Deerpark, Castlecomer, County Kilkenny
Entered: 07 September 1937, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly
Died: 08 November 2003, County Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 05 February 1938

Father, John, was Barrack foreman of works at Portobello. Mother was Anne (Brennan), Family then resided at North Circular Road, Dublin from 1923

Older of two boys with three sisters.

Early education at a Convent school and then at Westland Row CBS. He then went to O’Connells School until 1937

Baptised at Church of the Immaculate Conception, Kilkenny Street, Castlecomer, County Kilkenny, 24/12/1919
Confirmed at St Andrew’s Church, Westland Row, Dublin, 20/02/1930

https://www.dib.ie/biography/mcgough-joseph-christopher-joe-a9334

McGough, Joseph Christopher (Joe)
Contributed by
Clavin, Terry

McGough, Joseph Christopher (Joe) (1919–2003), army officer, barrister and businessman, was born 23 December 1919 at Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny, the fourth child and first son of John McGough, originally of Co. Clare, and his wife Ann (née Brennan). His father, having served as a lieutenant in the Royal Engineers, joined the Irish army on the formation of the Irish Free State (1922). In 1923, he was transferred to Beggars Bush barracks in Dublin, settling with his family on the North Circular Road; Joseph attended the nearby O’Connell’s CBS. In 1938, he commenced an arts degree at UCD, but switched to law a year later. At secondary school he had organised sporting events and he was similarly active at college; a member of the UCD rowing club, he also served as secretary of the Students’ Representative Council.

Army and law He enlisted in the Defence Forces on 29 June 1940. A member of the Army Signal Corps, he was commissioned a second lieutenant within two months, and was subsequently promoted first lieutenant (1942) and captain (1946). During the 1940s, he completed a course in electronics in Kevin Street College of Technology. He served throughout the country, including service with the Irish‐speaking Céad Cath battalion in Galway. On 1 August 1945 he married Dr Ann Frances (Nancy) Hanratty, a psychologist, daughter of John Hanratty of Parnell Square, Dublin. They had a son and a daughter. From 1948 the family lived in an impressive Georgian house – later a listed building – in Rathfarnham, Co. Dublin. Attached (as a member of the Signal Corps) to the Army Air Corp at Baldonnell, Co. Dublin, he enrolled at King’s Inns in 1947, qualifying as a barrister in 1951; he was called to the English Bar six years later. He served as staff officer to the director of signals at Army HQ from 1949 to 1955, when he was appointed one of two judge advocates on the staff of the adjutant general; he was promoted commandant soon after.

By 1960 his pension entitlement was sufficiently generous to permit him to retire from the army and practise at the bar. While sick with influenza in early 1962, he applied (apparently on a whim) for three jobs advertised in the newspapers. All three applications were successful and he elected to become the secretary of An Bord Bainne (the milk board), a newly established state agency. This career change was facilitated by his service in a part‐time capacity during 1960–62 as secretary to the Irish Exporters Association through which he obtained in autumn 1961 a scholarship for a twelve‐week marketing course in Harvard.

Kerrygold With his newly acquired marketing knowledge, and possessing administrative expertise and an understanding of the civil service mindset, McGough was suitably qualified for the daunting task at hand. Irish dairy was geared towards self‐sufficiency and hobbled by a surfeit of small, inefficient creameries which, like the dairy farmers, were resistant to change and unwilling to consider the good of the industry over their own interests. Bord Bainne effectively provided a minimum price for farmers’ milk by buying dairy products for export from the creameries at a guaranteed price with two‐thirds of any resulting loss being absorbed by the Exchequer – the remainder was passed back to the dairy farmer in the form of a levy.

With McGough as his right‐hand man, the Bord Bainne general manager Tony O’Reilly sought to cajole a faction‐ridden board into supporting an export drive. McGough established an immediate rapport with the youthful O’Reilly with whom he shared a sharp sense of humour. In his reminiscences, O’Reilly emerges as eager to lead the modernisation of Irish economic life and inwardly exasperated by the incomprehension and hostility with which farmers and dairy producers greeted his strictures. Older and more inclined to accept the world as it was, McGough’s diplomacy complemented O’Reilly’s zeal; so too did his ability to defuse a tense situation with a well‐timed quip. Their first and most important initiative was the launch of Kerrygold, the first ever branded Irish butter made specifically for the British market. The campaign, which began in October 1962, proved a resounding success by utilising modern marketing techniques in promoting a very traditional view of Ireland as an unspoilt Arcadia. Both McGough and O’Reilly worked frenetically on the campaign and it was the making of them.

Bord Bainne head McGough became assistant to the general manager in April 1965 before succeeding O’Reilly in late 1966. A fluent and witty speaker (much in demand for speaking engagements) he showed a particular flair for dealing with the media, which combined with the goodwill generated by the success of Kerrygold guaranteed him a largely adoring press, who portrayed him as the archetypal Lemass‐era business leader driving the country’s renewed engagement with modernity and the wider world through the medium of commerce.

Nonetheless the Bord Bainne ‘success story’ did elicit more cynical responses in some sections of the press and among the wider public who were subsidizing dairy export losses while having to pay higher prices for domestic dairy products. In particular Bord Bainne’s failure to produce fully transparent financial statements drew adverse comment. Undoubtedly very good at marketing Irish dairy products abroad, he also excelled at promoting the heavily subsidized dairy sector and the marketing skills of both Bord Bainne and himself to the non‐farming Irish public. A consummate insider, his urbane manner and relentless optimism made it easy to caricature him as an overly complacent member of the state sector aristocracy.

Pre‐EEC McGough promoted the ongoing diversification of Irish dairy manufacturing into products that were less reliant or not at all reliant on subsidies, such as cheese, skimmed milk powder, fresh creams and chocolate crumb, although butter remained predominant because it absorbed the most milk. In the UK he focused on developing a market for quality Irish cheeses, which culminated in the launch of Kerrygold cheese in 1969. The quota system imposed on Irish dairy products imported into the UK led him to continue the policy of orderly marketing whereby a demand was first created for a product thereby strengthening Ireland’s efforts to have import quotas increased.

His early years as general manager were spent grappling with Ireland’s ballooning exportable milk surplus, which rose from 120 million gallons in 1962 to some 340 million gallons in 1970. With the UK only gradually lifting its import quotas and with Ireland shut out of the most important continental markets by the EEC, McGough was obliged to seek more far‐flung outlets, leading him to travel 245,646 miles between 1 January 1967 and 31 March 1970. Bord Bainne in 1969 invested £12 million in a plant in the Philippines for reconstituting Irish skimmed milk to accord with regional preferences. But during 1968–9 the global overproduction of milk precipitated a collapse in world dairy prices and this meant that some 10% of Ireland’s milk output could not be disposed of in a remotely economical fashion. Unsurprisingly McGough and Bord Bainne came in for much knee‐jerk criticism, although an independent economic survey conducted in 1970 found that Bord Bainne was performing well given the circumstances.

The advent of the EEC’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) intensified Ireland’s reliance on the UK dairy market and the failure in 1970–71 of Bord Bainne’s Filipino venture was another blow to non‐UK exports. In early 1972 McGough used the capital salvaged from the Philippines failure to establish Bord Bainne’s own distribution network in the UK by acquiring Adams Foods, a UK butter and packaging company, with a view to diversifying into marketing and distributing a wide range of foodstuffs including dairy produce sold by Ireland’s competitors within the UK. This alarmed Irish dairy interests, but McGough’s success in building Adams Foods into a profitable foodstuffs company that made Kerrygold products available throughout the UK silenced his detractors.

Inside the EEC Concerns about continental competition within the Irish market once Ireland and the UK joined the EEC helped McGough to persuade the co‐ops to accept the introduction of the Kerrygold brand into Ireland on a restricted basis in 1972. Following Ireland’s accession to EEC membership in 1973 McGough was praised for his foresight, for the manner in which Bord Bainne was skillfully exploiting CAP regulations to sell in non‐EEC markets, and for the speed with which it moved into continental markets, particularly the Ruhr valley in West Germany.

He also handled with assurance the transformation of Bord Bainne from a semi-state institution into a cooperative (more precisely an export cooperative of all the Irish dairy cooperatives) so as to comply with EEC anti‐monopoly regulations. Under the new dispensation Bord Bainne, with McGough as managing director, served as a proxy for the EEC’s intervention authority by buying dairy products for export from the cooperatives at or near intervention price and by distributing any profit achieved evenly among the cooperatives. Bord Bainne as a cooperative enjoyed a privileged relationship with the state, which pledged to underwrite its borrowings up to £5 million; a guarantee that rose to £40 million by 1977. But one happy consequence for McGough of Bord Bainne’s new status was its freedom from public sector pay restrictions; this facilitated a rise in McGough’s own yearly salary from £6,000 in 1973 to £26,000 in 1977, comfortably outstripping inflation.

McGough’s policy was to use intervention only as a last resort and he noted proudly that he sold no butter into intervention, a strategy considered eccentric in other EEC countries, and by some Irish dairy manufacturers. McGough justified it as designed to strengthen Ireland’s hand in EEC negotiations; more pertinently, sales into intervention might lead to questions about the Irish dairy industry’s need for a central marketing agency.

Entry into the EEC removed the burden of guaranteeing milk prices from the Irish taxpayer and the EEC more than trebled the price of milk per gallon by 1977. Nonetheless, smarting from their experiences in the late 1960s Irish farmers were reluctant to recommit themselves to dairying, and milk production fell in 1974 after a severe winter. McGough launched a well‐publicised ‘More milk’ campaign, yielding a dramatic rise in production from 590 million gallons in 1974 to 735 million gallons in 1977.

Problems However, the workings of the EEC also had the effect of restricting and undermining Bord Bainne’s role. In particular, by providing a guaranteed price only for butter and skimmed milk powder, the EEC subverted the board’s longstanding policy of diversification. Ignoring McGough’s protests, the Irish creameries took the immediate profits available, and by 1976 seventy‐five per cent of Ireland’s exportable milk was going into butter. The EEC had been expected to eliminate Australia and New Zealand from the UK dairy market, but the UK secured special trading rights for New Zealand; combined with a fall in butter consumption in the UK, this made the 1970s a challenging period for Kerrygold sales. The UK’s forbearance towards New Zealand and refusal to countenance EEC levies on dairy substitutes frustrated McGough, who condemned what he saw as the excessively consumerist orientation of British food policy. In one of his last public pronouncements as managing director of Bord Bainne, he criticized the UK for negotiating in bad faith in EEC talks, and urged the Irish government to adopt a similarly ruthless attitude to negotiations.

EEC membership also precluded McGough from compelling cooperatives to export through Bord Bainne. More fundamentally, the sense of urgency and unity instilled into the industry by the adverse trading climate of the 1960s dissipated once Ireland joined a large and lavishly protected agricultural market. The larger cooperatives increasingly sought to export independently when prices were high and only relied on Bord Bainne when they believed they could do no better. McGough threatened to expel wayward cooperatives from the Bord Bainne fold but settled for preserving the appearance of central marketing. It was also reported that he was obliged to grant the most powerful cooperatives a larger share of Bord Bainne’s profits.

During the mid 1970s McGough harboured ambitions to establish a central marketing organization for all Irish food exports. His appointment in July 1974 as chairman of the Pigs and Bacon Commission (which essentially performed the same role as Bord Bainne for pig and bacon exports) was seen as part of this process. In the event, his three‐year term of office was marred by his sanctioning in August 1975 of the purchase of the British firm Bearfield Stratfield, already the commission’s main British distributor, which he hoped to use as a vehicle for distributing bacon under a national brand. But by summer 1976 it was clear that this attempt to recreate the success of Adams Foods had miscarried disastrously. When McGough failed to persuade the pig farmers and processors to provide necessary further capital for Bearfield Stratfield, which had recorded substantial losses, the company had to be wound up. Furthermore, in 1977, Adams Foods experienced temporary difficulties after a failed expansion into frozen foods. These setbacks encouraged a reaction against McGough’s empire‐building within Irish political and agri‐business circles.

During 1976–7 the government considered reducing or even ending its underwriting of Bord Bainne’s borrowings which were reaching alarming proportions arising from the breakneck growth of the dairy industry from 1973. The industry’s growing stock requirements and seasonality – the overwhelming majority of milk produced was sent to the dairies in the summer – obliged Bord Bainne to become one of the larger borrowers on the London money markets from the late 1960s and to cope with increasingly troublesome cash flow and interest charge conundrums, which the introduction of a capital levy in 1977 was but a first step towards resolving. In 1977, peak seasonal borrowings were £131 million. Despite these difficulties, McGough maintained a good reputation, benefiting by association from the subsidy‐fuelled increase in dairy farming incomes and in milk output that occurred after 1973. This was borne out by his appointment in 1976 to head a commission established by the International Dairy Federation to examine the marketing of milk and dairy produce, and by the decision of Business and Finance magazine to make him their Irish business executive of the year for 1976.

Final years Aware that challenging times beckoned, he left Bord Bainne in February 1978 to resume his practice as a barrister. Thereafter he divided his work time between the bar – he became a senior counsel in 1982 – and his rapidly accumulating company directorships; by 1984 he was a director of eighteen companies (ten as chairman) involving him in a diverse range of business sectors. Throughout his career he showed his public spiritedness in membership of many societies, charities and commerce‐ or export‐related bodies, and he was able to devote more time to these after leaving Bord Bainne. In 1978 he was appointed chairman of the newly established Co‐operation North which had been founded to improve relations between the Republic and Northern Ireland, a priority for McGough ever since the unionist community in Northern Ireland had effectively boycotted Kerrygold products (for being so identifiable with the Republic) following the outbreak of the Troubles in 1969. He was appointed chairman of Gorta in 1979 and of the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) in 1981. Under his direction the ASA drew up the first code of practice for the Irish advertising industry. He was also a director of the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin and chairman of the Salvation Army Advisory Board. In 1987 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Ulster. Easing into a new role as the avuncular elder statesman of the Irish business scene, he appeared frequently on RTÉ television and radio throughout the 1980s, reminiscing (often humorously) about his business and army experiences. Effortlessly debonair, always immaculately attired and deeply cultured, McGough enjoyed literature, theatre and ballet, serving as president of the Irish ballet society in his army days. He died in Dublin on 8 November 2003 and was buried at Kilmashogue cemetery on 11 November. In the 1970s he wrote a draft autobiography, which was not published.

In his belief in close cooperation between the state and certain economically significant corporations and in his belief that these quasi‐state corporations were obliged to consider not just the profit motive but also the impact of their actions on society, McGough was of his time. Such paternalism could engender a sense of impunity and collusion between vested interests that ill served the interests of the consumer and taxpayer. Similarly his demanding clients in rural Ireland often contended that he and Bord Bainne favoured the big farmer over the small. These complaints failed to take account of Bord Bainne’s important, politically necessary but largely unacknowledged role in mitigating and retarding – in the interests of social stability – the inevitable dissolution of Ireland’s small‐farming social structure. As the dynamic figurehead of Ireland’s burgeoning agri‐welfare complex McGough played a pivotal role in the management of this fraught transition.

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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: 20 February 1853, County Carlow
Entered: 07 September 1872, Milltown Park, Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 1874 for health reasons

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Tailor before entry; Brother Novice; LEFT for ill health reasons

Born: 14 July 1917, Brighton Terrace, Cobh, County Cork
Entered: 14 September 1938, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 12 March 1940

Father, Thomas, worked in Customs and Excise at Cobh. Mother was Mary (Murphy). Family resided at Hawthorn Terrace, Cobh, County Cork

Eldest of three boys with one sister. (Oldest brother was an invalid)

Early education was at a private school and then at the Presentation Brothers Cobh for 12 years (1928-1935). After school then worked as a clerical officer in the Civil Service in Dublin for almost three years, living at Millmount Terrace, Drumcondra, Dublin.

Baptised at St Colman's Cathedral, Cathedral Place, Cobh, County Cork, 27/07/1938
Confirmed at St Colman's Cathedral, Cathedral Place, Cobh, County Cork, by Dr Browne of Cloyne, 16/06/1928

Born: 21 June 1918, Tritonville Road, Sandymount, Dublin, County Dublin
Entered: 07 September 1936, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Died: 16 November 1995, Roundwood, County Wicklow, Ireland

Left Society of Jesus: 12 June 1937

Father was a manager at Johnston, Mooney & O’Brien confectionary.

Fourth of nine boys and one girl.

Early education was at a local Primary ~school and at 14 he went to O’Connells School (1932-1936)

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Dr James de Valera “Séamus” Mansfield
BIRTH
21 Jun 1918
Sandymount, County Dublin, Ireland
DEATH
16 Dec 1995 (aged 77)
Roundwood, County Wicklow, Ireland
BURIAL
Derralossary Churchyard Cemetery
Roundwood, County Wicklow, Ireland

Ainm Gaeilge
Dochtúir Séamus de Valera Móinbhíol

Known to his parents & siblings by the Irish form of his name, Seamus was the 7th of 10 children of John Joseph & Elizabeth (née McGowan) Mansfield of Sandymount, Co. Dublin, Ireland. He was born at the family home on Tritonville Road.

Obituary: Wicklow People (Ireland), Thursday, 25 January 1996;
Dr. de V. Mansfield
ROUNDWOOD lost one of its most colorful and respected residents with the passing of Dr. James de Valera Mansfield shortly before Christmas.

Dr. de V. Mansfield, as he signed himself, traveled extensively in Europe during a varied career as one of the freshest and most influential thinkers in the field of management, but it was in Roundwood that he finally made a home for himself and his wife Agatha.

The distinguished career he was to follow was signaled early on by his illustrious student days when he won many plaudits and prizes. He graduated from U.C.D. with first class honors B.A. Degree in economics before enrolling in King's Inns where he became auditor of the Law Society.

Many Roles
During his working life he held many roles. He revolutionized shopping in his country when, as a director of the retailers' organization, RGDATA, he introduced the system of self-service which he had studied in Sweden.

As Director of the Irish Management Institute in the late 1950s, he developed the institute's training, information and library services. He also spread his ideas throughout Europe though a series of study tours, on one of which he met his Austrian interpreter and translator Agatha.

A research fellowship in Frankfurt followed and the resulting thesis earned him a PhD from U.C.D. He then worked as a human resources specialist at the International Management Institute in Geneva and later as a director of a major management consultants firm in Zurich.

Zurich also became the childhood home of his daughter, a former Bunratty Castle singer who now works as a teacher of German at Aravon School in Bray, and his son who is pursuing a successful career as a film-maker with the Walt Disney studios in Los Angeles.

All this time Dr. de V. Mansfield was contributing to American, Swiss and German publications, bringing his theories and thoughts to an ever wider audience.

But his contributions to something as neighborly as the Rowndwood Historical Society journal gave him equal pleasure. He was an active member of the society and late last year, his chronicle of the life of his great, great grand-uncle, the one-time curate of Glendalough, Fr. John Gowan, was published in the journal's most recent edition.

The creative side of Dr. de V. Mansfield was also known to those who stopped to admire the marvelous garden he created at his Derralossary Road home over many years of careful planning and pruning.

Life Story
Less known is the fact that, at the time of his death, he was writing the life story of his beloved Agatha through the eyes of the teddy bear who accompanied her through war-time sorrows, challenging times as a scholarship student in New York and all through married life.

He left the garden and book for Agatha to tend when he passed away with painfully little warning on December 16 last. He was buried at Derralossary, close to his good friend, the late President Erskine Childers.
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Obituary: Management Institute News (Dublin Ireland), January 1996;
James de Valera Mansfield
When the Irish Management Institute was founded in 1952 it was a concept new to Ireland. The conventional wisdom was that managers were born, not made. The lecture room had nothing to offer the business process. Hard knocks in the tough world of experience was the only way.

When the Council sought to find a replacement for the IMI's pioneering director/general, Paul Quigley, in 1960, they chose James de Valera Mansfield. His academic background was exemplary – an MA (First Class Honors) in Economics, based on a thesis 'Irish Industry and State Intervention'; first place, including the Swift MacNeill Prize, in his LLB degree in 1953; BL from Kings Inns and TCD – another first place; several medals from the Law Students Debating Society.

This academic achievement was complimented by practical experience in the insurance industry and tourism (where he spent seven years as executive assistant to the Chairman of the then Tourism Board). This was followed by five years as general secretary and director of the Irish Retailers' Association (RGDATA).

He joined the Irish Management Institute at an interesting point in the Institute's life. It had done much to increase the awareness of Irish managers about the necessity for formal training and the need to professionalize the management process.

Much remained to be done to broaden that understanding at Government level and throughout business. James Mansfield helped to develop and deepen that process. He carried out several study tours of management centres and institutes in Europe. This study resulted in a report to Government and to the OECD on the need to create a national management development facility in Ireland.

It was during James Mansfield's period of office as director general that Ivor Kenny – who would become his successor – began the critical process of broadening the Institute's Management Development Unit, recruiting four specialists who formed the nucleus of the rapid development of the IMI during the following decades.

It was to pursue interests awakened by his earlier visits to Europe that James Mansfield left the institute in 1963 to create a new career in research and management development, first in Germany where he earned a doctorate in 1967, and later in the International Management Institute, Geneva, as a human resources specialist. This led to further distinction as an international management consultant in Germany and Switzerland.

In 1983, at the age of 65, with his wife Jagoda Agatha, his daughter and son , he returned to Ireland where he continued his international work while his health allowed.

James de Valera Mansfield is remembered with gratitude for a unique contribution to the shaping of the Irish Management Institute. To his family, our deep sympathy. May he rest in peace.
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✞ Dr. James de Valera Mansfield is buried at Derralossary Churchyard Cemetery, Co. Wicklow, Ireland.

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: 24 April 1916, North Strand, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 07 September 1935, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 28 November 1936

Father worked for the railways and Mother died in 1933.

Eldest of three boys with six sisters.

Early education at a Convent school and a National school and then at the Christian Brothers, St Mary’s Place, Dublin. From there he went to O’Connells School.

Born: 08 May 1897, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 31 August 1921, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 04 November 1921

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Bank Clerk before entry

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: 12 July 1855, Maghera, County Derry
Entered: 12 November 1872, Milltown Park, Dublin - Hiberniae for Taurensis Province (HIB for TAUR)

Left Society of Jesus: 1875

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - MC OSCAR; LEFT from illness - First Vows not made

Born: 25 April 1842, County Meath
Entered: 23 November 1870, Milltown Park, Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 1872

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: 31 May, 1866, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Entered: 25 October 1886, Loyola House, Dromore, County Down
Died: 21 November 1926, Herbert Street, Dublin City, County Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 1888 for health reasons

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - FRANCIS; Clongowes student; LEFT through ill health

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Philip Francis Little, aged 60, a bachelor, a "Private Gentleman", late of 60 Rathmines Road, Dublin, died in a Nursing Home at 5, Herbert Street, Dublin, on 21 November 1926.
The cause of death was Fatty Degeneration of the Heart, of 2 years duration, and Pneumonia, of 3 days duration.

BURIAL
Deansgrange Cemetery
Deans Grange, County Dublin, Ireland

PHILIP FRANCIS LITTLE
Second son of the late
Hon. Judge Little
born May 31st 1866
died November 21st 1926

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Born: 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

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DICTIONARY OF IRISH BIOGRAPHY

Little, Patrick John (‘P. J.’)

Contributed by
Coleman, Marie

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

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

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

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

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

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

Born: 31 March 1946, Lissan, Cookstown, County Tyrone
Entered: 24 November 1968, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Ordained: 05 June 1985, Dublin
Died: 31 March 2019, St Columban Missionaries, Dalgan Park, Navan, County Meath

Left Society of Jesus: 13 November 1970

Father was Patrick J and Mother was Catherine (O’Brien). Family lived from 1961at Garraid, Moneymore Road, Magherafelt, County Derry

3 Brothers, 1 Sister (2 brothers priests)

Played football for Derry Minors

Educated at St Patrick’s, Armagh and then obtained an MA in Classics at UCD, 1968. Was in St Patrick’s College, Maynooth as a seminarian for a year (1963-1964) before he entered the Society.

Baptised at St Michael’s Church Tullynure Road, Lissan, Cookstown, County Tyrone, 01/04/1946
Confirmed at St Michael’s Church Tullynure Road, Lissan, Cookstown, County Tyrone, by Dardinal D’Alton of Armagh, 09/05/1955

After leaving he went home to Magherafelt and taught for a while, also founding a local branch of the SDLP, being elected to represent Mid-Ulster in the Stormont Assembly in 1973, nbecoming the SDLP spokesman on legal affairs. He also studied Law at Queen’s University, Belfast and was called to the Bar.

1981 He went to Holy Cross College, Clonliffe for Dublin and was ordained in 1985 and worked at Corpus Christi, Drumcondra. He then went to Chile as an associate of the Columban Fathers, and on his return was appointed Chaplain at Trinity College Dublin.

In 2002, he joined the Columban Fathers, returned to Chile at Alto Hospicio, Iquique, Chile, where he organised a secondary school - the first in the area.

In 2006 he was diagnosed with Parkinsons disease and returned to Ireland at Dalgan Park.

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Fr Aidan Larkin played a leading role in development of SDLP
An Appreciation: Fr Larkin spent many years working in deprived areas in Chile

Fr Aidan Larkin, who played a leading role in the development of the SDLP and represented Mid Ulster in Stormont, led a varied and very fulfilling life.

He was born in Lissan, near Cookstown, Co Tyrone, where both parents were principals of primary schools. He thrived at St Patrick’s College Armagh, and later joined his brothers Sean and Patrick in Maynooth. He transferred to UCD where he graduated with a first class honours Masters in ancient classics. He then entered the Jesuit Novitiate in Emo.

He left the Novitiate after a year, returning to Magherafelt, Co Derry, where he took up teaching and joined the newly formed SDLP. He founded a branch of the party in Magherafelt and in 1972 he won a seat on Magherafelt Council. For him the SDLP incorporated the best features of non-violent republicanism and of nationalist constitutionalism. In 1973 alongside Ivan Cooper, a close friend, he was elected to represent Mid- Ulster in the Stormont Assembly which implemented the Sunningdale Agreement.

He saw the need to legislate for civil rights and equality and this led him to study law at Queen’s University and to practise at the Bar. As SDLP spokesman on legal affairs, he made several submissions on law, justice and rights issues and took one of the first successful anti- discrimination cases.

Bleak period
Sunningdale was destroyed by the Ulster Workers Council and the Provisional IRA. As he had warned, politics entered a bleak period of drift and stalemate, he was appalled by the violence.

Subsequently he was appointed to the legal service of the European Council in 1976, but gradually the idea of priesthood returned.

In 1981 he joined Clonliffe College, the diocesan seminary of the Archdiocese of Dublin and was ordained in 1985. He spent five happy years in Corpus Christi parish Drumcondra. He then worked in Chile as a diocesan associate with the Columban Fathers. He spent six years ministering in a deprived area of Santiago and built a church there, mainly with funds provided by his father.

He returned to Ireland and was appointed chaplain to Trinity College Dublin. In 2002 he joined the Columbans, returned to Chile and spent four years ministering in Alto Hospicio , a shanty town in Northern Chile. There he organised the provision of the first secondary school in the area.

Parkinson’s
In 2006 he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s and returned to Ireland, to reside in the Columban Centre in Dalgan. He wrote Saint Columbanus Pilgrim for Christ and prepared the book St Patrick and the Fathers of the Church.

His final months were difficult but he bore them stoically.

His life was ultimately defined by his drive to know, love and serve God and his unwavering loyalty to the church and its teaching. He had many abilities. He was an accomplished scholar and linguist. He was a capable, thoughtful and inspiring politician. He could have built a career as a barrister or a European official. He was well read in theology and doctrine. One could imagine him as a key official of the Curia. Yet while he had his health he pursued a path that saw him instead putting his gifts at the service of the poor in a desert in Chile.

He died on March 31st and is survived by his brothers Father Sean and Father Patrick Larkin, his brother Colm and his sister Roisin.

https://columbans.ie/fr-aidan-larkin/

Fr Aidan Larkin
Apr 5, 2019

Fr Aidan was born on 31 March 1946 in the Parish of Lissan, Cookstown, Co Tyrone. He was educated at Lissan PS and St Patrick’s College, Armagh.

After Armagh he spent a year in Maynooth before leaving to complete his BA in UCD. Still feeling called to priesthood, he spent two years in the Jesuit Novitiate.

Again changing his mind, he joined the newly founded SDLP, winning a seat on Magherafelt Council in 1972 and the Northern Ireland Assembly a year later.

Inspired by Martin Luther King and the American Civil Rights Movement he studied law at Queen’s University Belfast, qualified as a barrister, and worked for nearly five years in the Secretariate of the EEC Council of Ministers, Brussels.

There he came in contact with the Charismatic Renewal Movement and the desire to be ordained priest returned.

In 1981, he entered Holy Cross College Clonliffe, where he was ordained for the Archdiocese of Dublin on 5 June 1985. He served as curate in the Parish of Drumcondra, Dublin from 1985 to 1990.

He volunteered as an associate priest with the Columbans in Chile from 1991 to 1997. On his return to Dublin he was appointed University Chaplain at Trinity College, Dublin and served there until 2002.

At this stage, Aidan applied for temporary aggregation in the Society of St Columban. He was appointed to Chile and served in the city of Iquique where he was responsible for building two churches.

He became a permanent member of the Society on 1 October 2005.

In 2008, Aidan was diagnosed with the early stages of Parkinson’s Disease and in 2010, at the request of the Superior General, he returned to Ireland and began research on recent writings on St Columban.

The results of this research were published in book form in 2012 under the title ‘St Columbanus, Pilgrim for Christ’. Since then, in spite of deteriorating health, Aidan has planned and researched another book on St Patrick and his writings.

Aidan was a serious, earnest, dedicated priest and scholar and as a missionary he placed his unique experience of politics and law at the service of the powerless.

He coped bravely with his deteriorating health and continued his research in spite of it. He died on 31 March 2019, his birthday.

May he rest in peace.

https://rip.ie/death-notice/fr-aidan-larkin-meath-navan-368600

The death has occurred of

Fr. Aidan Larkin
St. Columban's, Dalgan Park, Navan, Meath / Magherafelt, Derry

The death has occurred of Fr. Aidan Larkin (Columban Fathers) St. Columban's, Dalgan Park, Navan and late of Magherafelt, Co. Derry and Chile Missions. 31st March 2019; peacefully in the loving care of the staff at St. Columban's Retirement Home, Dalgan Park, Navan. Fr. Aidan, predeceased by his parents Patrick and Catherine; very deeply regretted by his sister Roisin; brother's Fr. Sean, Fr. Patrick and Colm; brother-in-law John; sister-in-law Orlagh; nieces, nephews, extended family, Columban Family and friends.

Date Published:
Monday 1st April 2019

Date of Death:
Sunday 31st March 2019

Born: 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: 12 December 1912, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 03 September 1930, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 21 January 1931

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

Born: 09 December 1923, Oriel Street, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 10 September 1942, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 17 April 1943

Father, Patrick, was a clerical worker in a shipping firm. Mother was Mary (Kinsella). Family lived at Seville Place, Dublin City, County Dublin

Youngest of four boys with three sisters.

Early education was at a National School and then at O’Connells Schools.

Baptised at St Laurence O`Toole's Church, Seville Place, Dublin, 12/12/1923
Confirmed at St. Vincent De Paul Catholic Church, Griffith Avenue, Marino, Dublin, by Dr Wall of Dublin, 22/03/1934

Born: 15 August 1919, Dromore, County Tyrone
Entered: 05 April 1937, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Died: 09 February 2007, St Vincent’s Hospital, Dublin (Dublin, County Dublin)

Left Society of Jesus: 18 April 1938

Father was a bank-porter and the family moved to St Patrick’s Terrace, Omagh, County Tyrone

Youngest of three boys with three sisters.

Education was at the Christian Brothers schools in Omagh (primary and secondary)

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DICTIONARY OF IRISH BIOGRAPHY

Kiely, Benedict ('Ben')

Kiely, Benedict ('Ben') (1919–2007), writer, critic and journalist, was born Thomas Joseph Benedict Kiely near Dromore, Co. Tyrone, on 15 August 1919, the sixth and youngest child of Thomas Kiely, a British army veteran and measurer for the Ordnance Survey (born in Moville, Co. Donegal, son of an RIC man from Co. Limerick), and his wife Sarah Anne (née Gormley), formerly a barmaid. Kiely had two brothers (one of whom died aged eight) and three sisters. When he was one year old the family moved to Omagh, Co. Tyrone, where his father became a hotel porter. Kiely received his primary and secondary education from the Christian Brothers at their Mount St Columba's school in the town; he always spoke of his teachers with respect, recalling with particular admiration a lay teacher, M. J. Curry (model for the central character in his novella Proxopera) and Brother Rice, a most unusually enlightened Christian Brother who introduced him to the work of James Joyce (qv). Kiely was a member of the local GAA club but was suspended for playing soccer with Omagh Corinthians.

Much of Kiely's literary oeuvre draws on his youth in Omagh, and throughout his life he imaginatively recreated the townscape with its surrounding Strule Valley, its social and political divisions, concealed or unconcealed scandals, second-hand reports and fantasies of the wider world, and juvenile sexual curiosity – both the sexuality and the lure of an exotic world being sharpened by Omagh's ongoing history as a garrison town. From 1932 (when he attended the Dublin eucharistic congress) Kiely regularly holidayed in Dublin, staying with a married sister; the mid-Ulster town and the southern city were to become the twin poles of his career and imagination. Other holidays, in the Rosses area of Co. Donegal, also contributed to his imaginative formation.

After completing his secondary education (with a first place in English and second in history), Kiely worked as a sorter in Omagh post office (1936–7) before deciding he had a religious vocation and entering the Jesuit novitiate in Emo Park, near Portarlington, Co. Laois, in the spring of 1937. After a year in the novitiate Kiely was diagnosed with a tubercular lesion of the spine; he spent eighteen months at Cappagh hospital, Finglas, Co. Dublin, and wore a back brace for five years. Kiely later claimed that his vocation dissipated within a week of his arrival in hospital, partly due to his move from an unworldly all-male environment to the presence of shapely female nurses. In hindsight, Kiely believed the short-lived burst of fervour that produced his religious vocation had been a misunderstood yearning for a wider life of culture and scholarship. He retained from the novitiate a sizeable collection of miscellaneous religious knowledge, a number of clerical friends whom he respected, and a lifelong habit of rising at 5 a.m. and getting in several hours' work before breakfast.

Dublin and journalism
On discharge from hospital late in 1939 Kiely returned to Omagh, where he persuaded his elder brother (a self-made businessman) to lend him the money for a BA course at UCD (commencing autumn 1940). While studying history, literature and Latin, Kiely was a part-time editorial assistant on the Standard, a catholic weekly, and wrote articles, stories and verse in journals published by the Capuchin priest Fr Senan Moynihan (1900–70) (notably the Capuchin Annual, Father Mathew Record, Bonaventura and Irish Bookman). During his student days Kiely also organised a protest against the niggardliness of the coverage of James Joyce's death by Irish newspapers.

After graduating in September 1943, Kiely began a research MA in history, but abandoned it after he was recruited by Peadar O'Curry (1907–85) to a full-time job on the Standard, where he took over a 'Life and letters' column previously written by Patrick Kavanagh (qv). Francis MacManus (qv) became a literary 'guide, counsellor and friend' (Eckley, 164), persuading him to cut down a rejected novel, 'The king's shilling', to a long short story (later published as 'Soldier, red soldier'). In 1945 Kiely joined the editorial staff of the Irish Independent. He later commented wryly on the difference between the romanticised image of journalism that he had acquired from his adolescent passion for the writings of the English catholic columnist G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) and his subsequent experience of sub-editors' queries and quotidian visits to provincial towns to cover 'human interest' stories; this experience, however, reinforced his fascination with the interplay of locality and personality. From his earliest journalism to his last years, much of his writing took the form of an itinerary. He also regularly reviewed books in Irish journals and on Radio Éireann.

On 5 July 1944 Kiely married Maureen O'Connell (d. 2004); they had three daughters and a son (born 1945–9). The marriage broke down in the early 1950s, partly because of the strain between family life and the nocturnal, pub-centred lifestyle of a journalist. From the late 1950s Kiely lived with Frances Daly, whom he married in 2005 after his first wife's death in Canada.

Kiely as critic
Kiely's first publications were non-fiction works. Counties of contention (1945) is a series of essays on partition whose central argument is that unionism is a defence of ascendancy sustained by appeals to protestant 'persecution mania', and that reconciliation and an end to partition are necessary to save the whole island from mediocrity. Poor scholar (1947) was a pioneering study of William Carleton (qv), whose experiences as a storyteller, who was both inspired by and at odds with Tyrone, in many respects paralleled Kiely's own. In his last years, Kiely was a patron and regular attendee at the Carleton Summer School in Clogher, Co. Tyrone.

A number of published essays on contemporary Irish writers (mainly in the Irish Bookman) were reworked into Modern Irish fiction: a survey (1950) published by the Standard's Golden Eagle Books imprint. Much of this material, with further reflections and reworking, was incorporated into the essay collection A raid into dark corners (1999), which also contains reassessments of nineteenth-century Irish writers from throughout Kiely's career. (These serve the dual function of identifying material on which Kiely himself can draw and justifying his departures from nineteenth-century idealism and decorum for conservative provincial readers who might still see Kickham (qv) or Canon Sheehan (qv) as models.) Kiely's literary criticism, in its attempt to chart a path for post-revival and post-partition Irish literature, is noteworthy for its implicit rejection of the cultural nationalist view (as expressed by Daniel Corkery (qv)) that most nineteenth- and twentieth-century Irish fiction was not really Irish, and the view (associated with Sean O'Faolain (qv) and Frank O'Connor (qv)) that post-revolutionary Irish society was too provincial and uncertain to allow for the development of the novel as a social art form. Kiely presents contemporary Irish literature as divided between an ethos of rebellion incarnated by Joyce and one of acceptance reflected in Corkery. His own literary work tries to bridge this gap, as he moved between the thriving and confidently pious Dublin catholic weeklies and reviews and the more cynical worlds of the dissident literary intelligentsia and of Dublin journalists brought into contact with aspects of Irish life unacknowledged by the idealised self-image of catholic Ireland.

Early fiction
Kiely's first three novels are 'state of the nation' exercises: group portraits of Ireland in wartime as a Plato's cave of stasis. Their narrative structure moves among groups of characters in cinematic style. The first two are set in a thinly disguised Omagh in the period 1938–40, and are characterised by a dyad of naïve young enthusiast and detached older intellectual which recurs in Kiely's work. Land without stars (1946) portrays a romantic triangle involving two brothers (a spoiled priest turned journalist and a romantic republican and ex-postal sorter, brought to destruction by association with a sociopathic IRA killer). In a harbour green (1949), set in 1938–9, is a more panoramic view of small-town Ulster catholic life owing something to Joyce's Dubliners; its depiction of a young woman's simultaneous sexual involvement with a naïve young farmer and a sybaritic older solicitor led to its being banned by the Irish censorship of publications board (while in Britain it was taken up by the Catholic Book Club). The ban encouraged Kiely's move (at the behest of M. J. MacManus (qv)) from the Irish Independent to the less clericalist Irish Press, where he became literary editor, editorial writer and film critic. Kiely's third novel, Call for a miracle (1950), a similar group portrait set in Dublin in 1942, escaped banning despite its portrayal of marital separation, prostitution and suicide, possibly because its dark ending could be interpreted as the wages of sin. Kiely later jocularly commented that he had disproved Aodh de Blacam's (qv) proud claim that no Ulster writer had been banned; this underplayed the anger visible in his 1966 anti-censorship essay, 'The whores on the half-doors', written in response to the censors' last stand against authors such as John McGahern (qv) and Edna O'Brien (b. 1930).

Kiely's next novels continued the earlier works' preoccupation with neurotic states of mind while experimenting with different narrative techniques and closer attention to single protagonists. Honey seems bitter (1952), a first-person narrative of neurotic obsession involving a murder, emotional voyeurism and sexual infidelity, was banned. The cards of the gambler (1953), regarded by some critics as Kiely's best novel, is a literary reworking of a traditional folk tale (a genre often favoured by nineteenth-century Irish writers): the gambler's receiving three wishes from an enigmatic God, and his attempts to evade Death take place in 1950s suburban Dublin. The novel is influenced by Chesterton's novel The man who was Thursday (1908) and by the 1929 play (and 1934 film) Death takes a holiday. After various ambivalent triumphs and traumas (including a narrow avoidance of hell described as another version of suburban Dublin, inhabited by pious haters so concerned with keeping up respectable appearances that they refuse to acknowledge the true nature of their surroundings), he departs for heaven via a celestial version of Dublin airport, then seen as symbolising a new Irish modernity.

Kiely's next novel, There was an ancient house (1955), was also banned. It describes a preliminary year in a religious novitiate seen principally through the eyes of McKenna, an idealistic young novice, and Barragry, a progressively disenchanted ex-journalist pursuing a late vocation, both of whom eventually leave. The portrayal of religious life is respectful but increasingly implies that idealism, religious or otherwise, takes too little account of everyday humanity and is finally inhuman. The book, like Kiely's other fiction with autobiographical elements, should be read as a fantasia inspired by real-life events rather than a simple transcript of Kiely's own experiences. (It is set in the mid 1950s, and involves a fictitious religious order based on the Redemptorists and the Marists as well as the Jesuits.) The ban may have been due to the strong hint that Barragry's spiritual crisis was caused by his girlfriend having an abortion. (After leaving the novitiate he resumes the relationship.) The captain with the whiskers (1960), much admired by Kiely critics, is a grim Gothic study of a tyrannical gentry patriarch's malign overshadowing of his children's lives even after his death, as told by a narrator who himself is corrupted by his fascination with the captain; it can be read as a comment on colonialism.

Broader horizons
The 1960s saw Kiely's professional blossoming as Ireland grew more prosperous and more open to outside influence. From the late 1950s the New Yorker began to publish his short stories, and Kiely established contact with American academics such as Kevin Sullivan, author of Joyce among the Jesuits (1958), whose search for his ancestral Kerry glen inspired Kiely's famous story 'A journey to the seven streams', and the novelist and critic of nineteenth-century Irish fiction Thomas Flanagan (1923–2002). Kiely moved away from professional journalism to become writer-in-residence at Hollins College (latterly University) in western Virginia (1964–5), visiting professor of creative writing at the University of Oregon in Portland (1965–6), and writer-in-residence at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia (1966–8). During this period in academia, Kiely contributed a fortnightly American letter to the Irish Times, commenting on American society with particular reference to the black civil rights movement and the wider upheavals of the 1960s; he also wrote numerous book reviews for the New York Times and essays and reviews for other periodicals (including the Nation of New York).

After returning to Ireland in 1968 Kiely spent the rest of his life as a full-time professional writer. (He was also an extern lecturer at UCD.) His later work is more exuberantly pagan and less haunted by faith. The 1968 novel Dogs enjoy the morning, an outspoken celebration of the sexual impulse and the bawdier aspects of Irish provincial life and folk culture which had been denounced or denied by censors such as William Magennis (qv), marks this new confidence and recognition in contrast to the social insecurity and aura of disreputability he experienced as a journalist-writer in the 1950s.

From the appearance of his first story collection, A journey to the seven streams (1963), Kiely's output was dominated by short stories, which became his most popular works and on which his literary reputation chiefly rests. In contrast to the 'well-made' short story encapsulating a life in a single emblematic incident, based on French and Russian models and favoured by many twentieth-century Irish authors, Kiely preferred an outwardly 'artless' approach, in which carefully structured digressions, multiple foci, garrulous narration, incorporation of familiar quotations and verse snatches, drawing on personal memories (generally recombined and reinvented, rather than straightforwardly reminiscent), and refusal to tie up apparently loose ends draw strongly on the oral storytelling tradition. (Surviving drafts in the NLI suggest Kiely composed many of these stories in his head for oral delivery, and that they underwent relatively little revision after being committed to paper.) Some critics complain that with age this operatic or performative style lapsed into self-indulgence, and Kiely's reliance on quotations and allusion grew to such an extent that his later works are virtual or actual anthologies. Kiely's later collections are A ball of malt and Madame Butterfly (1973), A cow in the house (1978), and A letter to Peachtree (1987). Several selections from these stories have also been published, and a Collected stories appeared in 2001 with an introduction by Colum McCann.

The image of Kiely as cosy storyteller was reinforced for a generation of Irish radio listeners by his melodious Northern voice reminiscing in six- or seven-minute radio essays on the Sunday morning RTÉ radio programme Sunday miscellany (from the early 1970s). The germ of these can be found in an Irish Press column about travels throughout Ireland (written with Sean White under the shared pseudonym Patrick Lagan). Kiely the raconteur is also in view in such works as All the way to Bantry Bay (1978), a collection of essays describing journeys in Ireland; Ireland from the air (1991), for which he provided text for a photobook; Yeats' Ireland: an illustrated anthology (1989); and And as I rode by Granard moat (1996), a selection of Irish poems and ballads with linking commentary on their local and personal associations. In 1982 Kiely received an honorary doctorate from the NUI. He served as council member and president of the Irish Academy of Letters, and in 1996 became a saoi of Aosdána. Admirers such as Colum McCann have complained that this late image of the 'grey Irish eminence' conceals Kiely's edge and significance from potential readers.

Troubles fiction
Kiely was profoundly affected by the Northern Ireland troubles from 1969; while denouncing unionist misrule and the extremism of Ian Paisley (qv) as having precipitated the conflict, he was horrified at the revelation of the violence latent in Northern Irish society, lamenting 'the real horrors have passed out the fictional ones', and commenting that the churches had contributed greatly to the divisions which made such things possible (Ir. Times, 29 January 1977). He praised Omagh as a solitary bright spot, marked by its people's efforts to maintain good cross-community relations. His last two lengthy works of fiction were the novella Proxopera (1977), whose cultured elderly protagonist is forced at gunpoint by IRA men to drive a proxy bomb into his native town, and the novel Nothing happens in Carmincross (1985), set in the early 1970s, in which the elderly Irish-American protagonist's joyful rediscovery of Ireland (in the company of an uninhibited old flame) on his way to a family wedding in an Ulster village ends with the death or mutilation of numerous villagers (including the bride) by bombs planted to divert the security forces from an IRA operation elsewhere. (This is based on the murder of Kathleen Dolan, killed by a loyalist car bomb in Killeter, Co. Down, on 14 December 1972 as she posted wedding invitations; Kiely abandoned a commission to write a coffee-table history of Ireland when the publishers refused to allow him to commence with this incident.) In contrast to his usual methods of composition, Kiely worked on Carmincross for twelve years; its narrative techniques experiment with postmodernism (the ageing lovers, pursued by the old flame's estranged husband, are ironically assimilated to Diarmuid and Gráinne (qv) pursued by Finn (qv)) and, beside Kiely's usual collage of literary and folkloric references, incorporate newspaper reports of real-life atrocities committed by republican and loyalist paramilitaries and state forces, and by regimes and guerrillas elsewhere in the world, whose fragmentary horrors mirror both the destructive power of the bomb and the breakdown of grand narratives of identity. These stories acquired additional significance after 15 August 1998 (Kiely's seventy-ninth birthday), when twenty-nine people were killed and over 220 injured in Omagh by a car bomb planted by the Real IRA splinter group.

Some critics hailed the Troubles stories as masterworks; other commentators (generally but not always holding republican views) argued that they were essentially outraged and myopic expressions of bourgeois complacency, and that their reduction of republicans' political motives to one-dimensional psychopathy was an artistic as well as a political flaw. (These criticisms are more applicable to Proxopera, where IRA members are portrayed directly.) A variant on this criticism argues that Kiely's view of culture as a naturally unifying force founded on human decency unfitted him to portray genuine disagreement as anything more complex than a destructive irruption of anti-culture (though his nuanced portrayal of the conflict between sacred and secular calls this into question). While these criticisms have substance, it can be argued that they run the risk of normalising the un-normalisable; a cry of pain and horror has its own integrity.

Kiely's last major works were two memoirs, Drink to the bird (1991), about his Omagh boyhood, and the more fragmentary and anecdotal The waves behind us (1999). He died in St Vincent's hospital, Dublin, on 9 February 2007 after a short illness and was buried with his family in Drumragh cemetery, Omagh. The principal collection of his papers is in the NLI, and additional material is in Emory University. Since 2001 he has been honoured by an annual Benedict Kiely Literary Weekend in Omagh. He awaits comprehensive reassessment; at his best he was a remarkable explorer of the pieties and darknesses of a mid-twentieth-century Ireland overshadowed in popular perception by the first and last thirds of the century.

Sources
Grace Eckley, Benedict Kiely (1972); Daniel J. Casey, Benedict Kiely (1974); John Wilson Foster, Forces and themes in Ulster fiction (1974); Ir. Times, 29 Jan. 1977; 13, 17 Feb. 2007; Benedict Kiely, Drink to the bird: a memoir (1991); id., The waves behind us: further memoirs (1999); Belfast Telegraph, 6 Aug. 1999; Elmer Kennedy-Andrews, Fiction and the Northern Ireland troubles since 1969: (de-) constructing the North (2003); Wordweaver: the legend of Benedict Kiely (dir. Roger Hudson, 2004; DVD with additional material, Stoney Road Films 2007); Sunday Independent, 11 Feb. 2007; Guardian, 12 Feb. 2007; Times, 19 Feb. 2007; Anne Fogarty and Derek Hand (ed.), Irish University Review, xxxviii, no. 1 (spring-summer 2008; special issue: Benedict Kiely); Derek Hand, A history of the Irish novel (2011); George O'Brien, The Irish novel 1960–2010 (2012); Benedict Kiely website, benedictkiely.info/index.html (accessed May 2013)

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Author Benedict Kiely dies aged 87

Novelist, short-story writer, critic, journalist, broadcaster and seanchaí Benedict Kiely, who was a dominant presence on the Irish scene for many decades, has died aged 87.

Novelist, short-story writer, critic, journalist, broadcaster and seanchaí Benedict Kiely, who was a dominant presence on the Irish scene for many decades, has died aged 87.

Born in Dromore, Co Tyrone, Benedict Kiely was brought up in Omagh.

He began working as a journalist in Dublin, where he spent close to 70 years of his life. The first of his many novels, Land Without Stars,was published in 1946 and he will also be fondly remembered for his work on RTÉ's Radio One's Sunday Miscellanyprogramme.

"Over six decades he has created a body of work which is impressed indelibly in contemporary literature," Mary Cloake, director of the Arts Council, said. "His exquisite prose explored and celebrated humanity in all its complexity and intrigue."

Interfuse No 156 : Summer 2014

AN ANCIENT HOUSE

Kevin Laheen

The Omagh-born writer Ben Kiely entered the Jesuit noviciate in 1937 but left before taking vows. Shortly after he left, he wrote a book called There was an ancient house. The ancient house referred to was St Mary's, Emo, which is still standing but is no longer occupied by Jesuits. However, the Jesuits also occupied another ancient house which has since been demolished: Loyola House, Dromore, Co. Down, which for a brief four years (1884-88) was occupied by Jesuit novices. In 1888 Fr Robert Fulton, the Province Visitor from USA, ordered the novices to be moved to Tullabeg, which would prove more suitable for their training. The Jesuits sold the house in Dromore shortly after the novices moved, but until 1917 they retained the 211 statute acres on which that house had stood, leaving it in the hands of a caretaker. In October 1938 I asked Fr T V Nolan why they retained the land but sold the house.

He told me there were two reasons. Firstly, though the Orange Order and the local Protestants were anxious to purchase both house and land, the money they offered was less than what the Jesuits had paid for it. In addition the stock from the farm were regular prize-winners at the annual Belfast Agricultural Show. Eventually when T.V., as Provincial, received a satisfactory offer, he sold the property, making a handsome profit on what they had originally paid for it.

In 1818 four novices arrived from Hodder to continue their training as novices in Tullabeg. They found the building already occupied by pupils of the Jesuit school which had just been opened; there was no room for novices. From that date Irish novices could be found in various novitiates both in Ireland, in Hodder and in other places on the continent. Eventually in 1860 they were located in Milltown Park. In time this location proved incapable of providing the correct atmosphere for the training of novices, so they were moved to Dromore, which was regarded as a more suitable location. So in April 1884 the novices arrived in Dromore and were located there until July 1888.

Towards the time when the novices were about to leave Dromore, T.V. Nolan arrived there. He told me that another novice called O'Leary arrived about the same time. In later years their lives became entwined in a number of ways, when T.V. became Provincial and O'Leary began recording earthquakes.

Although the Jesuits left Dromore, they will always be remembered there, because the names of two of them can be read on a gravestone beside the parish church in Dromore. They were Elias Seaver, who had just completed his training as a novice, and Fr John Hughes who had been bursar and who died some weeks before the Jesuits departed from Dromore in 1888.

I was happy to have had this chat with Fr Nolan in 1938, because he died some eight months later, and the history of this ancient house might well have gone to the grave with him.

Born: 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: 07 January 1915, Kimmage Road, Kimmage, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 05 October 1933, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 31 January 1935

Father was a business man

Only child

early education was at two convent school and then at Belvedere College SJ for eight years.

Born: 12 July 1848, Elphin Diocese
Entered: 30 August 1870, Milltown Park, Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 1872

Born: 28 September 1881, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 07 October 1900, St Joseph’s College, Beiruit, Syria - Lugdunensis Province (LUGD)
Ordained:

Left Society of Jesus: 1902

Educated Mungret College SJ 1892

Born: 07 July 1859, Kilbaha, Newtownsands, County Kerry
Entered: 10 September 1879, Milltown Park, Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 1880

Educated at Newtownsands NS, and Classical School Tralee and Mount Mellary

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - KENNELY

Born: 18 November 1909, Dolphin’s Barn, Dublin
Entered: 01 September 1924, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: January 1925

Educated at Mungret College SJ

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Mungret Apostolic School student; Set out for Madurai Mission (MDU) in January 1925, but LEFT en route

Born: 04 February 1912, Botanic Road, Glasnevin, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 03 October 1931, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 04 April 1932

Father owned a bakery business.

Youngest of four boys and three girls.

Early education at a Convent and National School in Glasnevin and then at Belvedere College SJ

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Belvedere student; LEFT Noviceship 04 April 1932 for speaking course on account of stammer

Born: 27 March 1862, Birr, County Offaly
Entered: 13 January 1894, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1895

Educated at Castleknock College and Mount Mellary then St Sulpice and All Hallows