Born: 10 June 1914, George’s Villa, Inchicore, Dublin
Entered: 07 September 1933, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 30 July 1935

Father was a National School teacher and family have lived at Inchicore Road, Inchicore.

Two older sisters and a younger brother and sister.

Early education at Inchicore NS and then at Synge Street. He then went to Skerry’s College, Harcourt Street to do the Dublin Corporation Clerkship exam. Then he went to Belvedere College SJ to make Matriculation.