Born: 17 April 1914, O’Curry Street, Kilkee, County Clare
Entered: 14 August 1937, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly (HIB for ORE)

Left Society of Jesus: 16 May 1940

Brother Novice. ORE Province Catalogue has date of entry as 20/02/1938 (after 6 months probation?)

Father was John, a carpenter working on contract basis for builders and funeral undertakers. Mother was Catherine (Downes).

8 Brothers and 2 Sisters

Educated to Primary Cert level, then worked with his father.

Baptised at Church of the Immaculate Conception and St Senan, West End, Kilkee, County Clare, 18/04/1914

(Letters from Patrick J O’Reilly SJ’s sister to provincial regarding Bernard on file along with one from Patrick)

Born: 05 February 1872, Kilkee, County Clare
Entered: 08 July 1893, Sacred Heart, De Smet, Coeurs D’Alène ID, USA - Taurensis Province (TAUR)
Ordained: 31 May 1906
Final vows: 02 February 1911
Died: 26 May 1958, Jesuit Novitiate, Sheridan, OR, USA - Oregonensis Province (ORE)

Transcribed TAUR to CAL : 1909; CAL to ORE

by 1933 came to Emo (HIB) working

Born: 07 July, 1899, Kilkee, County Clare
Entered: 30 July 1920, Sacred Heart, Los Gatos CA, USA - Californiae Province (CAL)

Left Society of Jesus: 1930

Educated at Mungret College SJ

1920-1922: Sacred Heart, Los Gatos CA, USA (CAL), Novitiate
1922-1924: Sacred Heart, Los Gatos CA, USA, Humanities, then Rhetoric
1924-1927: Mount St Michael’s, Spokane WA, USA, Philosophy
1927-1929: Seattle College SJ, Interlaken Boulevard, Seattle WA, USA, Regency
1929-1930: Bellarmine Preparatory College SJ, Elm Street, San Jose CA, USA, Regency