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:
Entered: 1953, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 14 September 1953

Left after a couple of weeks

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: 16 February 1910, Manchester, Lancashire, England
Entered: 10 May 1930, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 29 May 1931

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - PATRICK; Brother Novice; Medical Orderly before entry

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Left Society of Jesus: 08 May 1944

Baptised Alexander Cormac Smith

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

Older of two boys with two younger sisters.

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

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

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

Born: 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: 31 May 1918,
Entered: 19 February 1936, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 23 August 1937

very similar to Pat Ryan who enters in 1937 DOB Feb 1918!

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: 30 May 1918, Granard, County Longford
Entered: 07 September 1944, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 23 May 1945

Brother Novice

Father Patrick, was a farmer. Mother was Brigid (Maguire). Father was deceased 1942. Family lived at Kilasonna, Lismacaffrey, County Westmeath.

7th in a family of 10 with 2 Brithers and 7 Sisters.

Educated to 5th Standard, Primary school. He then worked on the family farm.

Baptised at Saint Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Church Street, Granard, County Longford, 01/06/1918
Confirmed at Saint Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Church Street, Granard, County Longford, by Dr McNamee of Ardagh, 18/05/1930

Born: 09 March 1924, William Street, Clonmel, County Tipperary
Entered: 06 September 1941, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 28 April 1942

Father was Thomas, a labourer, and Mother was Margaret (O’Connell).

Youngest of five boys with two sisters (6th of 7).

Early education at Convent and National school in Clonmel he then went to CBS High School Clonmel

Baptised at Ss Peter and Paul's Church, Gladstone Street, Clonmel, County Tipperary, 12/03/1924
Confirmed at Ss Peter and Paul's Church, Gladstone Street, Clonmel, County Tipperary, by Dr Kinane of Waterford and Lismore, 10/05/1936

Born: 19 December 1918, Berea Terrace, Rathfarnham, Dublin City
Entered: 07 September 1936, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 25 August 1937

Parents were teachers, father died before 1936

Youngest of four boys (1 deceased)

Educated at a Convent school in Dublin and then at Mungret College SJ

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: 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: 08 March 1914, County Galway
Entered: 25 February 1932, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 05 December 1932 for family reasons

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - CBS Tuam student

Born: 20 November 1941, Cleaghmorr Villa, Ballinasloe, County Galway
Entered: 07 September 1960, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Died: 11 March 2021, Blackrock, County Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 10 August 1961

Born in Dublin

Father, Guy, was a manager in Guinness Brewery, and was a convert. Mother was Mary (Gogan)

Seven Brothers and 3 Sisters

Educated at St Joseph's College, Garbally Park, Ballinasloe, County Galway

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The death has occurred of

Peter PERREM
Blackrock, Dublin

PERREM (Blackrock, Co. Dublin) March 11th, 2021 (peacefully) at home, Peter, beloved husband of the late Fíona, loving father of Kilian, Melanie, Sarah, Damien and Dominic. Very sadly missed by his children, sons and daughters-in-law, eighteen grandchildren, siblings Michael, Dee, Anne and Barbara, extended family and many friends.

Date Published:
Friday 12th March 2021

Date of Death:
Thursday 11th March 2021

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

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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: 15 October 1923, Palmyra Park, Galway City, County Galway
Entered: 06 September 1941, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 10 April 1943

Father, Patrick was a Sergeant of the old RIC, Mother was Bridget (Delia Cotter).

Second youngest of three boys and five girls. Eldest brother died 12 months prior to entry.

Early education was at the Christian Brothers primary school in Galway and then at Coláiste Iognáid

Baptised at St Joseph's Catholic Church, Rahoon, Galway, 20/10/1923
Confirmed at St Joseph's Catholic Church, Rahoon, Galway, Dr O’Doherty of Galway, 14/05/1934

Born: 16 June 1923, Magheralone, Ballynahinch, County Down
Entered: 06 September 1941, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 29 March 1943

Bapt Cert “Ó Háilpín”. Confirmation Cert “Halpenny”

Father, Hugh Ó Háilpín was a Brigadier in the 3rd Northermn Division of the IRA, and became a Garda attached to the Donegal Gaelic speaking Division. Mother was Annie (Rice). Family then lived at Glencar, Letterkenny, County Donegal

Eldest of a family of twelve, with eight boys and four girls. Spent most of his life in Donegal and six years in Dublin. He has also lived in Dundalk, Mallin Head and Carrick, County Donegal, before Letterkenny.

Education was at, Malin Head, Dundalk and then St Eunan’s College, Letterkenny. In his Leaving Cert he got a Donegal County Council University scholarship.

Baptised at Holy Family Church, Downpatrick, County Down, 17/069/1923
Confirmed at St Columba's Church, Carrick, County Donegal, by Dr MacNeely of Raphoe, 16/05/1933

Born: 17 December 1923, George’s Street, Gort, County Galway
Entered: 07 September 1941, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 30 June 1942

Parents James and Bridget (Keane) were Grocers in Gort.

Two brothers one his twin.

Educated at the Convent of Mercy school in Gort for four years. He then went to Mungret College SJ (1934-1941)

Baptised at St Colman's Church, Church Street, Gort, County Galway, 19/12/1923
Confirmed 09/05/1935

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: 28 February 1911, Shamrock Place, College Road, Cork City, County Cork
Entered: 16 November 1931, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 24 April 1933 for health reasons

Father was a cycle and motor-cycle agent.

Eldest of five boys with four sisters.

Early education was at a Convent school in Cork, and then he went to CBC Cork, and then to North Monastery. He won a Cork City scholarship and went to UCC to study Science and four years later got a BSc.

Born: 07 December 1919,
Entered: 21 May 1939, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 26 August 1939

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: 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: 06 July 1916, Bank Place, Rathkeale, County Limerick
Entered: 07 September 1933, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 14 April 1934

Parents were grocers and family lived at Thomas Street, Rathkeale, County Limerick.

Eldest of two boys and five girls.

Educated Rathkeale NS and then at age 13 at Rathkeale Secondary School (1929-1932). In 1932 he went to Mungret College SJ for one year.

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Mungret student; LEFT 1934

Born: 10 August 1911, Abbeyfeale, County Limerick
Entered: 07 September 1931, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Died: 11 March 1992, Tralee, County Kerry

Left Society of Jesus: 18 September 1931

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

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Brief Life History of Timothy

When Timothy Murphy was born on 10 August 1911, in Abbeyfeale, County Limerick, Ireland, his father, Cornelius Murphy, was 35 and his mother, Helena Colllins, was 33. He died on 11 March 1992, in Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland, at the age of 80.

Born: 06 March 1925, Killaloe, County Clare
Entered: 07 September 1943, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 25 September 1943

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - St Flannan’s student

Born: 04 February 1917, Fitzgerald Place, Ballintemple, Cork City, County Cork
Entered: 07 September 1933, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 14 January 1935

Father was an electrical engineer.

Older of two boys.

Early education was three years at the Model School, Cork and then at CBC Cork (1926-1932). He then went to North Monastery, Cork for his final year

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - CBC Cork student

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

Left Society of Jesus: 24 May 1943

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

Youngest of seven brothers.

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

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

Born: 28 June 1917, Cahir, County Tipperary
Entered: 07 September 1937, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 27 September 1937

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

Born: 23 February 1915, Millstreet, County Cork
Entered: 01 February 1934, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 08 April 1936

Father was a Constable in the RIC and killed in the war in 1918. Mother also died the same year.

Eldest of two boys with one sister.

Older sister was married and lives in Raheny, Dublin City.

Early education was for six years at a Convent school in Skerries, and then at St Vincent’s (Castleknock or Glasnevin??)

Born: 24 September 1894, Dangan, Summerhill, County Meath
Entered: 08 July 1924, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly
Died: 23 October 1971, De La Salle Brothers Community, Castletown, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 04 January 1926

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

Left Society of Jesus: 12 November 1953

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

1 younger Brother

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

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

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McSWINEY, Myles: Death

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

Born: 16 August 1921, New Street, Dundalk, County Louth
Entered: 07 September 1942, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 13 January 1944

Father, Peter, was a smith on the GN Railway. Mother was Annie (Coleman)

Eldest of six boys with one sister

Educated at the Christian Brothers School Dundalk for seven years he left school for about four years. He then went to Mungret College SJ

Baptised at St Patrick's Church, Roden Place, Dundalk, County Louth, 17/08/1921
Confirmed at St Patrick's Church, Roden Place, Dundalk, County Louth, by Cardinal MacRory, 17/04/1932

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: 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).

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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: 27 May 1920, Frere Street, Belfast, County Antrim
Entered: 07 September 1940, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 27 June 1941

Father, Alfred, was a Corporation labourer, Mother was Elizabeth (McDonnell) Family lived at Getty Street, Falls Road, Belfast.

Eldest of four boys with one sister.

Educated at St Paul’s Kindergarten school in Belfast and then at St Peter’s Primary School, Raglan Street, Belfast. He then spent a year at St Joseph’s JT School, Hardinge Street, Belfast. He left school and sought work getting a job at A & P Lavery Pawnbrokers and Jewellers, Falls Road for three years. In 1938 he was enabled to go to Mungret College SJ

Baptised at St Peter's Cathedral, St Peter’s Square North, Belfast, County Antrim, 29/05/1920
Conformed at St Peter's Cathedral, St Peter’s Square North, Belfast, County Antrim, by Dr Mageean of Down and Connor, 09/03/1931

Born: 01 June 1939, Navan Gate, Trim, County Meath
Entered: 07 September 1956, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Died: 30 September 2024, Good Shepherd Village, Fairview Home, Fairview Avenue, Binghamton, NY, USA

Left Society of Jesus: 20 December 1957

Father, Theo (Theodore), was a commercial traveller. Mother was Mollie (Mary Gorman)

Eldest of four boys with three sisters.

Educated at a Convent school in Trim, and then at age seven went to the St Michael’s Christian Brothers school in Trim for five years, moving on to their Secondary school.

Baptised at St Patrick's Church, Trim, County Meath, 04/06/1939
Confirmed at St Patrick's Church, Trim, County Meath, by Dr Kyne of Meath, 12/05/1952

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Charles E. "Ted" McKenna
1939 - 2024

Obituary of Charles E. McKenna

Charles (Ted) McKenna, 85, died peacefully at Good Shepherd Village after a prolonged illness on Monday, September 30, 2024.

Ted grew up as one of eight children in Trim, County Meath, Ireland. He often told stories of his time growing up in Ireland, exploring Trim Castle and attending the Christian Brothers School in Trim. In 1958 at the age of 18, he emigrated to the United States, first arriving in New York City before settling in Hudson Falls, New York. There, he met the love of his life, Rose Battiste, who would become his wife of 62 years. Prior to becoming a U.S. citizen, he joined the U.S. Navy in 1959, and served for four years on the USS Mississinewa (AO-144). During that time, he was involved in the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Rose and Ted married in 1962, while he was still in the Navy, and settled in Hudson Falls for 10 years before moving to Binghamton, New York with their three children in 1980. Ted began his 31-year career with Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in Glens Falls, New York, as an insurance salesman and later moved up to District Manager in Binghamton, Savannah, Georgia, and Charleston, South Carolina. After his retirement, Rose and Ted lived in Charleston for 16 years before settling back in Binghamton in 2006, where they lived on the West Side until last year.

Ted was a parishioner at Saint Patrick's Church in Binghamton and had a strong Catholic faith. He was very proud of his Irish history and loved to share stories of Ireland. He loved reading books about war and military history, walking around the West Side with Rose, spending time with his Labrador Retriever, Buddy, tending to his vegetable and flower garden, working on home improvement projects, and traveling with Rose. Together, they traveled extensively to many countries, including Ireland, France, Germany, the Czech Republic, Austria, Turkey, Italy and Spain.

Ted was predeceased by his parents, Molly Gorman McKenna and Theodore McKenna, sister Miriam Stack, and sister and brother-in-law Margaret and Michael Murray. He is survived by his wife, Rose McKenna, children Mary Rose (Matt) Gilroy, John (Jacqueline) McKenna and Christine (Brian) Normile, and grandchildren Maggie (Ian) Haines, Sam Gilroy, Anna Gilroy, Ryan McKenna, and Brendan, Colin and Kate Normile. He is also survived by his siblings Ann Sandford, Theodore, Michael Bueno, Ivan and Laurence McKenna, as well as many beloved nieces and nephews.

Rose and family would like to thank the staff and residents of Skilled Nursing at Good Shepherd Village for their loving and compassionate care of Ted.

A Funeral Mass will be offered at St. Patrick's Church, corner of Oak and Leroy Streets, Binghamton, Friday at 11 a.m. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery, Johnson City. The family will receive friends at St. Patrick's Church, Friday from 10 a.m. until 11 a.m.

Expressions of sympathy may be made to Good Shepherd Communities Foundation, 32 Village Drive, Endwell, NY, or St. Patrick's Catholic Church, 9 Leroy St., Binghamton, NY. The Mass will be livestreamed at www.sta-sp.org

Final Resting Place
Friday, October 4, 2024
Calvary Cemetery, 501 Fairview St, Johnson City, New York, United States

Visitation at Main Service
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Friday, October 4, 2024
St. Patrick's Church, 9 Leroy St, Binghamton, New York, United States

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: 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: 15 June 1923, Crescent Avenue, Limerick City, County Limerick
Entered: 06 September 1941, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 25 August 1943

Father, Patrick, was manager of the hardware department of F Spaight and Sons, Limerick. Mother was Mary (McInerney).

Only child.

Educated at a Convent school in Limerick he went to Crescent College SJ

Baptised at St Joseph’s Church, O’Connell Avenue, Limerick, 20/06/1923
Confirmed at St Joseph’s Church, O’Connell Avenue, Limerick, by Dr Keane of Limerick, 29/06/1935

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: 23 December 1922, Millbrook, Naas, County Kildare
Entered: 06 September 1941, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 21 April 1943

Anthony John Christopher Maguire

Father, Hugh, was manager of the Naas Carpet Factory and then employed by a Mr Hederman, coal merchant. Mother was Sally (Sarah Coffey). Family then resided at Fair View, Naas, County Kildare.

Second of three boys with three sisters.

Early education at a Convent school and the Christian Brothers school, both in Naas (1930-1940). After school he was employed as a clerk in a solicitor’’s office in Naas.

Baptised at Church of Our Lady and St David, Sallins Road, Naas, County Kildare, 31/12/1922
Confirmed at Church of Our Lady and St David, Sallins Road, Naas, County Kildare, by Dr Cullen of Kildare and Leighlin, 13/04/1932

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: 29 December 1909, Rathscanlan, Swinford, County Mayo
Entered: 07 September 1934, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 30 March 1935

Parents were farmers. Father died in 1932

Eldest of three boys.

Early education was at local primary school, and then he wanted to become a National School Teacher, and was tutored by the Principal, and attended night classes in Irish. In 1927 he got a scholarship for a Gaeltacht course at Tourmakeady Irish College. Tried a few times to get accepted for Teacher Training, but just missed out. Applied to Mungret but did not get accepted so he went to Mount Melleray in January 1932.. Then he was accepted at Mungret in 1932 to 1934.

Born: 12 February 1924, County View Terrace, Limerick
Entered: 07 September 1942, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Died: 18 November 2017, Shelbourne Road, Limerick City, Limerick

Left Society of Jesus: 10 January 1944

Father, Henry, was a builder. and Mother was Bridget (McCarthy)

Fourth in a family of nine with two brothers and six sisters

Educated at a National School and then at Crescent College SJ for nine years.

Baptised at St Joseph’s Church, O’Connell Avenue, Limerick, 15/02/1924
Confirmed at St Joseph’s Church, O’Connell Avenue, Limerick, by Dr Keane of Limerick, 29/06/1936

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The death has occurred of Dr Harry LEAHY
Shelbourne Road, Limerick City, Limerick

Dr Harry Leahy (Shelbourne Road, Limerick) 18th November 2017, in his 94th year, peacefully at home. Beloved husband of Joan. Dearly loved father of Fiona, Sarah, Criona, Emma, Rebecca, Julie, Harry and the late Geraldine. Dear brother of the late Betty, Fr Maurice SJ, Mary, Kathleen, Nancy and Dr John. Sadly missed by his loving family, sons-in-law, daughter-in-law, grandchildren, sisters Celine and Bernice, nephews, nieces, extended family and friends. Rest in peace.

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 June 1923, Walm Lane, Mapesbury, London, England
Entered: 07 September 1961, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois (HIB forPOL Mi)

Left Society of Jesus: 14 November 1961

Brother Novice

4 Brothers and 6 Sisters

Came to Ireland for Novitiate at the request of Fr Stanislaus Skudryzyk SJ, of the Jesuit Fathers Polish Mission at Walm Lane in London (PolMi).

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: 09 February 1938, Barrack Street, Bantry, County Cork
Entered: 07 `September 1957, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Ordained: 07 June 1964, St Mary’s Cathedral, James’ Street, Kilkenny, County Kilkenny, for Diocese of Jefferson City MO, USA
Died: 14 July 2010, Barnes Jewish Hospital, St Louis, MO, USA

Left Society of Jesus: 29 May 1958

Father was Raphael, a draper, and Mother was Brigid (O’Sullivan).

2 Brothers and 1 Sister

Educated at Mungret College SJ

Baptised at St Finbarr's Catholic Church, School Road, Bantry, County Cork, 09/02/1938
Confirmed at St Finbarr's Catholic Church, School Road, Bantry, County Cork, by Dr Cohalan of Cork, 07/05/1950

Attended St Kieran’s Kilkenny after leaving having been adopted by the Diocese of Jefferson City, and was ordained priest 07/06/1964

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Monsignor Raphael P. Keyes (February 9, 1938 - July 14, 2010)

Raphael Patrick Keyes was born on February 9, 1938 in Bantry, County Cork, Ireland, the son of the late Raphael Patrick Keyes and Bridget (O’Sullivan) Keyes. Father Keyes was baptized at St. Finnbarr Church on February 9, 1938 and confirmed by Bishop Daniel Cohalan of Cork, Ireland on May 7, 1958. He is survived by his brother, Markus and sister, Cait. His brother Michael preceded him in death.

Father Keyes received his primary education at St. Finnbarr’s Primary School 1942-1951; later at Mungret College, Limerick 1951-1957 and finally at St. Kieran’s College 1958-1964. For a short period of time, Father Keyes was a novice of the Irish Province of the Society of Jesus until he joined the Diocese of Jefferson City as a seminarian in 1958. He received Subdiaconate and Diaconate in Ireland in 1963.

He was ordained to the Holy Priesthood of Jesus Christ on June 7, 1964 for the Diocese of Jefferson City by the Most Reverend Peter Birch, Bishop of Ossory, in the Cathedral of St. Mary, Kilkenny, Ireland. Bishop Joseph M. Marling, CPPS of Jefferson City, welcomed him to the United States and assigned him as an assistant at St. Francis Xavier, Taos in July 1964; and then on March 16, 1966 to the first cathedral of the Diocese, St. Peter’s in Jefferson City.

With continued missionary spirit, in 1967 Father Keyes responded to Bishop Marling’s call for priests to serve in the newly-formed missions in Peru. Amid the challenges of political tension and upheaval during the 1960’s and 1970’s in his new mission field, Father Keyes served with distinction at Marcona and Nasca for 35 years. He was a Coordinator of the Mission Team for 20 years, and for many years served as an advisor to the Peruvian Bishops Conference.

On May 28, 1989, Father Keyes celebrated his Silver Jubilee of Ordination at the Cathedral of St. Joseph in Jefferson City with Bishop Michael F. McAuliffe and his fellow jubilarian classmates.

When Father Keyes returned to priestly service within the Diocese of Jefferson City, on July 1, 2002 Bishop John R. Gaydos appointed him administrator of St. Anthony Church in Camdenton. On November 1, 2002, he was appointed pastor of the Parish of St. Anthony in Camdenton and the Mission of Our Lady of Snows in Climax Springs. Then, on July 1, 2009, he was appointed pastor of St. Bernadette Church in Hermitage, in addition to his other pastoral responsibilities. He served these parishes until his death.

Father Keyes was an appointed member of the Presbyteral Council from June 1, 2002 until his death. During his time on the Presbyteral Council, he held the offices of Secretary, Vice Chair, and then Chair from 2007 to 2010. He was appointed a Diocesan Consultor from 2003 to 2008. At the time of his death, he was a member of the Diocese of Jefferson City Mission Committee from April 2003 and a member of the Priests’ Mutual Benefit Society Board from June 2005. Our Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI named him a Prelate of Honor on June 28, 2006.

Internment will take place at a later date in Bantry, Ireland.

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KEYES Monsignor Raphael, Rapheal: Death

KEYES Monsignor Raphael Newtown, Bantry and Camdenton (Diocese of Jefferson City), MO. USA. - July 14, 2010 (peacefully) in the care of the staff of Barnes Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, MO. Brother of the late Michael, sadly missed by his loving sister Cait and brother Marcus, sisters-in-law Patsy and Glenda, nephew Ralph, his wife Eileen, grandnephew Michael, grandniece Rachel, his many friends and colleagues in Peru, his friends and coworkers in the Diocese of Jefferson City, relatives and his large circle of friends. May he rest in peace. Removal tomorrow (Wednesday) at 8pm from Coakley's Funeral Home, Chapel Street to St. Finabarr's Church, Bantry. Requiem Mass on Thursday at 12 noon, funeral afterwards to the Abbey Cemetery, Bantry. Family flowers only, donation in lieu, if desired, to Bantry Hospice Project, Newtown, Bantry.

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: 14 August 1920, Mile Mill, Kilcullen, County Kildare
Entered: 22 November 1944, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: Fenruary 1945

Brother Novice

Parents were Joseph, a labourer, and Kate (Kealty).

5 Brothers and 3 Sisters

Educated locally to 5th Class. Always did work in Houses and Guest Houses until entry

Born: 23 May 1924, Sea Road, Galway City, County Galway
Entered: 06 September 1941, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 09 April 1943

Younger brother of John James Keogh - LEFT 1949, and Andrew Keogh - LEFT 1939

Parents, James and Delia (Bridget Cunningham) were Grocers.. Family lived at Sea Road, Galway City, County Galway

Youngest of four boys with one sister.

Early education was at a National school in Galway and then at Coláiste Iognáid.

Baptised at St Joseph’s Church, Rahoon, Galway, , 25/05/1924
Confirmed at St Joseph’s Church, Rahoon, Galway, by Dr O’Doherty of Galway, 14/05/1934

Born: 30 June 1913, Boley, Shillelagh, County Wicklow
Entered: 31 December 1932, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois (HIB for ORE)

Left Society of Jesus: 06 March 1933

Father was a teacher. Family moved to live at Church Street, Bagenalstown, County Carlow.

Third of eight boys with six sisters.

Early education at a National School in Shillelagh he went to Mungret College SJ for four years.

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - For Oregon Province; LEFT 06 March 1933. No vocation

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

Left Society of Jesus: 21 October 1935

Parents were farmers.

Eldest of five boys.

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

Born: 05 November 1914, Novara, Blacklion, Greystones, County Wicklow
Entered: 07 September 1932, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 08 August 1934

Father was a commissioned officer in the British Navy and died in 1922. Mother is supported by private means.

Second of three boys.

Early education began at a Convent school in the Isle of Wight, England. He then went to CUS Dublin, St Flannan’s in Ennis and then Belvederer College SJ.

Born: 23 August 1923, Casimir Road, Harold’s Cross, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 07 September 1942, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 01 April 1943

Father, Gerald, was a shopkeeper and family lived at Aughrim, County Galway. Mother was Annie (Sweeney).

Younger of two boys with two sisters.

Early education was for two years at a National School in Aughrim and then at St Joseph’s, Garbally College Ballinasloe.

Baptised at Church of Mary Immaculate Refuge of Sinners, Rathmines Road, Dublin, 26/08/1923
Confirmed at St Catherine’s Church, Aughrim, County Galway, by Dr Dignam of Clonfert, 15/05/1934

Born: 14 August 1912, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 01 September 1930, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 02 May 1931

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Brother Novice; Carpenter before Entry

Born: 16 August 1920, Woodbrook, Emo, County Laois
Entered: 21 August 1939, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 22 August 1939

Brother Novice

Parents Michael, a farm worker and Mary (Morris),

4 Brothers, 1 Sister

Educated to Class 7.

Baptised at St Paul's Church, Emo, County Laois, 22/08/1920
Confirmed at St Paul's Church, Emo, County Laois, by Dr Cullen of Kildare and Leighlin, 14/03/1932

Born: 03 September 1922, St Joseph’s, Ormond Road, Rathmines, Dublin City
Entered: 07 September 1940, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 07 April 1942

Father, Matthew, was a commercial traveller for Helys of Dame Street. Mother was Agnes (McLynn)

Only boy with three sisters (one a nun).

Early education at a Convent school in Dublin he then went to Synge Street.

Baptised at St Joseph's Catholic Church, Berkeley Road, Phibsborough, Dublin, 08/09/1922
Confirmed at St Kevin’s Church, Harrington Street, Dublin, by Dr Wall of Dublin, 27/02/1934

Born: 28 November 1923, Knockeen, Pallasgreen, County Limerick
Entered: 05 October 1942, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 14 September 1943

Parents, John and Catherine (Corboy) were farmers.

Younger of two boys with four sisters.

Early education was for nine years at Caherconlish NS, he then went to CBS Limerick for five years.

Baptised at Church of the Holy Rosary, Main Street, Murroe, County Limerick, 01/12/1923

Born: 26 February 1913, Claremorris, County Mayo
Entered: 14 February 1932, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 30 June 1933

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - De La Salle Waterford student; left No Vocation

Born: 23 August 1921, Dromhall, Killarney, County Kerry
Entered: 12 November 1940, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 25 April 1941

Father, Jeremiah, was a Customs and Excise Officer. Mother was Catherine (O’Connell) who died in 1937. Family moved to Farnmore, Bellvue Park, Cork City.

Seventh of eight boys with two sisters (1 deceased)

Early education was in St Patrick’s National School Cork, at age 11 he went to the Model School in Cork and then North Monastery.

Baptised at St Mary’s Cathedral, New Street, Killarney, County Kerry, 25/08/1921
Confirmed at St Finbarr's South Church, Dunbar Street, Cork City, by Dr Cohalan of Cork, 21/05/1934

Born: 03 July 1935, Drumquin, Barefield, Ennis, County Clare
Entered: 07 September 1953, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Died: 12 February 2008, Gort Glass, St Joseph’s Hospital, Ennis, County Clare

Left Society of Jesus: 09 August 1955

Parents were James, a farmer, and Nora (Cooney)

3 Brothers and 1 Sister (3rd in family)

Educated at CBS Ennis, County Clare.

Baptised at St Brecan's Catholic Church, Doora, County Clare, 04/07/1935
Confirmed at Church of the Immaculate Conception, Barefield, County Clare, by Dr Fogarty of Killaloe, 26/05/1946

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The death has occurred of

Denis HEHIR
Gort Glass, Ennis, Clare

Late of Drumquin, Barefield. Remains arriving at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Barefield, tomorrow, Thursday, for Mass at 12 noon. Burial afterwards in Templemaley Cemetery.

Date Published:
Wednesday 13th February 2008

Date of Death:
Tuesday 12th February 2008

Born: 10 November 1922, Chapel Road, Waterside, Derry City, County Derry
Entered: 07 September 1942, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 24 March 1943

Father, George, was a clerk. Mother was Teresa (Gillespie).

Youngest of four boys with four sisters. (Brother Denis A Hegarty SJ, Canada) (2 Sisters of Mercy)

Educated at St Columb's College, Buncrana Road, Derry. Worked as a clerk at Bank of Ireland, Royal Avenue, Belfast after school.

Baptised at St Columb's Church, Chapel Road, Waterside, Derry, 11/11/1922
Confirmed at St Columb's Church, Chapel Road, Waterside, Derry, 19/05/1932

Born: 16 February 1912, Ascot Terrace, O’Connell Avenue, Limerick City, County Limerick
Entered: 03 September 1930, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 06 January 1932

Father was a draper.

Second eldest of four boys and he has three sisters.

Educated at a local children’s school and then at 11 went to Crescent College SJ (1923-1930)

Born:
Entered: 1937, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 20 September 1937

Born: 06 April 1924, Crescent Avenue, Limerick City, County Limerick
Entered: 07 September 1942, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 27 March 1943

Father, James S, was a music teacher and organist in Jesuit Church of Limerick (Sacred Heart). Mother was Marcella (Connolly).

Older of two boys with two sisters.

Educated at Convent and National school and then at Crescent College SJ for nine years.

Baptised at St Joseph’s Church, O’Connell Avenue, Limerick, 07/04/1924
Confirmed at St Joseph’s Church, O’Connell Avenue, Limerick, by Dr Keane of Limerick, 29/06/1939

Born: 31 May 1912, Iveagh Buildings, Bride Street, Dublin, County Dublin
Entered: 07 September 1953, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 28 December 1953

Brother Novice

Parents were Henry and Kathleen (Kelly), both deceased at the time of entry.

2 Sisters amd 1 Brother

Educated at local National School, and subsequently some commercial subjects at a Technical School. Had worked as an accountant on various places.

Baptised in St. Nicholas of Myra Church, Francis Street, Dublin, 03/06/1912
Confirmed in St Michael and John’s, Lower Exchange Street, Dublin on 15/03/1923

Born: 04 May 1916, St Patrick’s Terrace, Roscommon Town, County Roscommon
Entered: 07 September 1935, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 10 August 1936

Father was a Master joiner but also had a private income. Mother died in 1921, and two years later father remarried.

Third of five boys with one step-brother and step-sister.

Early education was five years at a Convent School ad five years at a National school in Roscommon Town, he got a Roscommon scholarship and went to Summerhill College, Sligo.

Born: 28 August, 1912, Belfast, County Antrim
Entered: 28 November 1933, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 17 October 1934

Born: 05 October 1910, Hospital, County Limerick
Entered: 03 September 1930, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 10 February 1932

Father was a draper and died in 1911. Mother is supportted by the business.

Only child.

Early education at a local Convent school in Hospital, annd then at the Christian Brothers there (1918-1924). In 1924 he went to the Christian Brothers in Tullamore for one and a bit years. In September 1926 he went to Mungret College SJ until 1929. Then he went to study Music in Dublin.

Born: 07 December 1941, Mayfield, Station Road, Sutton, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 07 September 1959, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Died: 31 May 2021, Greystones, County Wicklow

Left Society of Jesus: 07 June 1961

Anthony Mary Grealish

Father, John, was a journalist. Mother was Nora (O’Connor). Family also lived in Limerick at Glenlevan, Ennis Road, Limerick

Family of three boys and one girl with one brother older.

Educated at a Convent school in Dublin and then two in Limerick. He then went to Crescent College SJ for three years, and returning to Dublin spent six years at St Fintan’s High School in Sutton.

Baptised at St Andrew’s Church, Westland Row, Dublin, 08/12/1941
Confirmed at St Michael’s Church, Denmark Street, Limerick, by Dr O’Neill of Limerick, 28/05/1952

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The death has occurred of

Anthony (Tony) Grealish
Greystones, Wicklow / Sutton, Dublin
Anthony (Tony) Grealish, late of Greystones, Co. Wicklow and formerly of Sutton, Co. Dublin, died, suddenly at home on 31st May 31, 2021; beloved husband of the late Maura, sadly missed by his daughter Laura, son Jonathan, brother Oliver, friend Noel Whiston, Robin the dog and Emilia the cat; recently predeceased by his brother Rory.

May he rest in peace

Date Published:
Tuesday 1st June 2021

Date of Death:
Monday 31st May 2021

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.

Born: 18 April 1913, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 07 September 1931, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 14 September 1931

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - CBC Dublin student; LEFT during 1st Probation

Born: 21 June 1913, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 11 March 1932, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 21 June 1932

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Belvedere stduent. LEFT no vocation

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

Left Society of Jesus: 25 June 1958

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

Older of two boys.

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

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

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The death has occurred of

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

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

Date Published:
Monday 8th July 2024

Date of Death:
Sunday 7th July 2024

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In 2000 he was appointed to the Supreme Court.

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

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

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

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

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

Suaimhneas síoraí dá anam dílis.”

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

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

Published on 9 July 2024

Last updated on 9 July 2024

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

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

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

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

"Suaimhneas síoraí dá anam dílis.”

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

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

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

He died last Sunday aged 86.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Born: 11 January 1921, Dundalk, County Louth
Entered: 07 September 1939, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 1939

Known as Desmond Gallagher

Father, Thomas, was an Inspector in the Department of Agriculture. Mother was Eva (Wynne). Family lived at Strand Road, Merrion, Dublin City, County Dublin

1 Brother, 3 Sisters

Educated at O’Connell’s School, Dublin

Baptised at St Patrick's Church, Roden Place, Dundalk, County Louth, 13/01/1921
Confirmed at St Agatha’s Church, North William Street, Dublin, by Dr Byrne of Dublin, 12/03/1931

Born: 14 February 1923, Wolfhill, County Laois
Entered: 06 September 1941, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 17 September 1943

Brother Novice

Parents were Denis, a clerk in Carlow and Nora (Maloney). Family lived at Briscoli, Mountrath, County Laois

2 Brothers and 1 Sister.

Educated to Inter Cert.

Baptised at St Joseph's Church, Ballyadams, County Laois, 18/02/1923
Confirmed at St Fintan's Catholic Church, Ballyfin, County Laois, by Dr Keogh of Kildare and Leighlin, 10/03/1937

Worked for his uncle at a grocery store at Carrig On Bannow, County Wexford

Born: 15 October 1919, Portumna, County Galway
Entered: 03 March 1942, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 25 July 1942

Brother Novice; LEFT without notice

Father was Timothy was a lavourer and Mother was Nora (Nevin).

One Brother.

Educated to 4th class primary in Portumna age 14.

Worked as a domestic for one year at Mercy Convent, Portumna, then four years at Rockwell College CSSp, and c one year at St Patrick’s College Maynooth

Baptised at St Brigid's Catholic Church, Portumna, County Galway, 15/10/1919
Confirmed at St Brigid's Catholic Church, Portumna, County Galway, by Dr Dignam of Clonfert, 08/05/1933

Born: 23 June 1916, Esmonde Terrace, Bray, County Wicklow
Entered: 07 September 1934, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 22 Febraury 1935

Father was an engineer and mechanic. Family resided at Sherrard Street Upper, Dublin

Eldest of three boys.

Early education was six years at Central Model School, and then at Scoil Colmcille for three years. In 1930 he went to Mungret Apostolic School.

Born: 20 October 1924, Elm Park Avenue, Ranelagh, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 07 September 1943, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 12 October 1943

Father, John J, was a Railway official and Mother was Mary (Martin).

2 Sisters

Educated at belvedere College SJ, Dublin

Born:
Entered: 1936, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 07 May 1936

Born: 10 April 1911, Fitzwilliam Street, Ringsend, Dublin
Entered: 03 September 1930, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 15 April 1932

Father was unemployed, and family is supported by private means.

Second of three boys with one sister.

Educated for four years at Christian Brothers Westland Row, he then went to the Apostolic School at Mungret College SJ

Born: 10 December 1919, Langrishe Place, Summerhill, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 05 August 1942, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Died: 19 April 2002, Dublin City

Left Society of Jesus: 27 July 1943

Parents were Hubert, a fitter, and Margaret (O’Reilly)

2 Brothers, 4 Sisters

Educated at Model School, Marlborough Street, Dublin. Worked at Raleigh Bicycle Company, Hanover Quay, Dublin, factory for 8 years

Baptised at St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral, Marlborough Street, Dublin, 15/12/1919
Confirmed at St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral, Marlborough Street, Dublin, by Dr Byrne of Dublin, 10/02/1931

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Buried at Dardistown Cemetery

Born: 20 May 1910, Drumcanver, Madden, Keady, County Armagh
Entered: 05 August 1942, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 1942

Brother Novice

Both parents, Francis and Brigid, deceased at the time of entry

3 Brothers, 1 Sister

Educated at Madden No 1 PE School (St Joseph’s Primary School, Madden, Keady, County Armagh).

After leaving school worked as a farm labourer in the summer and with Patch Mills, Madden, Keady, County Armagh, in winter time, both for the same employer. Mr Marshall..

Baptised at St Patrick's Church, Keady, County Armagh, date uncertain
Confirmed at St Patrick's Church, Keady, County Armagh, by Dr Logue of Armagh, 15/05/1920

Born: 28 January 1929, St Mary’s, Cowper Road, Rathmines, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 08 October 1946, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Died: 02 June 2019, Blackrock, Dublin City, County Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 20 February 1948

Parents were John and Mary (Meagher). Father was an Accountant and deceased at the time of entry. Mother was a Director of McBirney’s Department Store, Aston Quay, Dublin.

2 Brothers and 2 Sisters.

Educated at Belvedere College SJ, Dublin.

Baptised at Church of the Three Patrons, Rathgar Road, Dublin, 01/02/1929
Confirmed at St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral, Marlkborough Street, Dublin,, by Dr Wall of Dublin, 31/01/1940

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Heroism, eclectic diversity of interests, deep spirituality and chartered accountancy are not usually found in each other’s company, but in the one-of-a-kind life of John Donnelly, who has died aged 90, they certainly were.

Donnelly, one of Ireland's foremost insolvency experts and the leading receiver of troubled companies from the late 1960s onwards, was, successively, a teenage soldier in the British army's D-Day landings on Sword beach on the Normandy coast, a Jesuit seminarian for two years, an articled clerk in a practice co-founded by his own father, the principal of that practice from his qualification in 1954 as a fellow (as it then was) of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and then, finally, one of the founding partners of what has become, after many mergers, the Irish operation of the major firm Deloitte.

Business was in Donnelly’s blood. His father, Jack, was a chartered accountant with the famous Dublin firm Craig Gardner. He had left with John Gardner, a son of one of the founders of the practice, to form Gardner Donnelly, but died young when John was still a child, leaving his mother, May (nee Mehigan), to bring him and his five siblings up on her own. Fortunately, however, she was also in business, and prominently, as chairwoman of the legendary department store McBirney’s. The family continued to live in comfortable circumstances in Temple Gardens, Rathmines.

Educated at Belvedere College, he demonstrated early an independent streak which was also to last him to the end, by running away in his 16th year to join the British army in 1944. He found himself within a few months, having lied about his age, in France. He was shot in the neck by a sniper, recovered and returned to his unit.

Father’s practice Donnelly lost many friends as a young soldier, and this affected him very deeply. It was perhaps this experience that led him to spend two years in training for ordination as a Jesuit on his return to Dublin, and, later, perhaps influenced also a short-lived dalliance as a medical student. In time, he settled down in his late father’s practice, which he bought out two years before qualifying himself.

He developed a speciality as an insolvency practitioner widely regarded in the business world as second to none. As his former colleague in Deloitte, retired partner David Deasy, put it to The Irish Times this week: "During the late 1960s, and from then until [Donnelly's retirement in] the 1990s, he was the go-to person for banks for particularly challenging and difficult receiverships."

Among the most prominent of these were Ranks Ireland; Cork brewers James J Murphy's; Van Hool McArdle, motor body builders in Dundalk; Janelle, a large textile group in Finglas, Dublin, in the early 1980s; Dr Austin Darragh's Institute of Clinical Pharmacology in the late 1980s and early 1990s; and UMP Meats of Ballyhaunis in the same period.

Donnelly made a point of attempting to rescue jobs, if he could, from unpromising situations, and it gave him particular pleasure, for example, to be able to sell on Murphy’s to Heineken, a deal that has preserved jobs in Cork for the past generation. UMP Meats was eventually bought by Glanbia, and today Dawn Meats still operates the plant.

The work was sometimes dangerous. In the case of Ranks Ireland, a number of the firm’s workers staged a sit-in at the plant, and subversive elements, quite separately from the workers and without their consent, took advantage of this as a publicity stunt to threaten Donnelly and his family, resulting in an armed Garda presence having to be provided at the family home for years subsequently. His former colleague, Billy O’Riordan, told The Irish Times that when Donnelly had to make people redundant, “he always treated them with the utmost respect and consideration”.

To work for, Donnelly was a demanding taskmaster. David Carson, another colleague at Deloitte and still a partner with the practice, recalled this week that "John was a tough individual to work for, but fair. He stood up for you." But first you had to prove that you knew your stuff. "He very much challenged you. He'd test you and you very much had to pass that test." For scheduled meetings, colleagues needed to be prepared thoroughly. Carson remarking that "you needed to be very, very well prepared, you needed to know what the objective was; he didn't appreciate you not being well-briefed."

Eugene McCague, a solicitor formerly of Arthur Cox and Partners, who worked on many projects with Donnelly, said this week this directness extended to Donnelly’s dealings with lawyers. “He had a hatred of imprecise language. He was a stickler for precision . . . I learned a lot from him.”

Toughness in negotiations was another characteristic McCague recalled also when Donnelly handled the closing down of Dublin Port’s stevedoring subsidiary Dublin Cargo Handlers in 1992, “there were long, tough negotiations with the trade unions, but he did a deal with generous redundancy payments.”

Outside business, Donnelly had an extensive record as a volunteer with a range of charitable and not-for-profit causes, especially at the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital in Dublin (where he chaired a finance committee, which raised £1.5 million) and Co-Operation North (now Co-Operation Ireland), the boards of both of which he chaired. He also served for 20 years as honorary consul of Finland in Ireland.

John Donnelly is survived by his widow, Aoibheann (nee MacEllin), his daughters Grace, Caoimhe and Deirdre, son JP, and also by sisters, Ethel and Philomena, and his brother, Gerard. He was predeceased by brothers Michael and Daniel

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The death has occurred of

John DONNELLY
Blackrock, Dublin

(1929 – 2019), former Senior Partner of Deloitte in Dublin, peacefully on the morning of June 2nd 2019; beloved husband of Aoibheann (nee MacEllin) for 57 years and loving father to Grace, Caoimhe, Deirdre and JP. Sadly missed by his sons-in-law Fintan O’Gorman, Andrew Lowe and Aillil O’Reilly, his brother Gerard and brother-in-law Peter Dunn. Predeceased by his sisters Ethel and Phil, and brothers Daniel and Michael. Cherished by his fourteen grandchildren Jack, Katie and Harry Donnelly; Christopher, Eleanor, and Louisa O’Gorman; Jonathan, Alec, Cormac and Jake Lowe; Ailbhe, Honor, Lauren and James O’Reilly.

Date Published:
Tuesday 4th June 2019

Date of Death:
Sunday 2nd June 2019

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DONNELLY, John: Death

DONNELLY, John (Blackrock, Dublin, 1929 – 2019), former Senior Partner of Deloitte in Dublin, peacefully on the morning of June 2, 2019; beloved husband of Aoibheann (nee MacEllin) for 57 years and loving father to Grace, Caoimhe, Deirdre and JP. Sadly missed by his sons-in-law Fintan O’Gorman, Andrew Lowe and Aillil O’Reilly, his brother Gerard and brother-in-law Peter Dunn. Pre-deceased by his sisters Ethel and Phil, and brothers Daniel and Michael. Cherished by his fourteen grandchildren Jack, Katie and Harry Donnelly; Christopher, Eleanor, and Louisa O’Gorman; Jonathan, Alec, Cormac and Jake Lowe; Ailbhe, Honor, Lauren and James O’Reilly. Reposing at home tomorrow (Thursday) from 5.30pm to 7.30pm. Funeral Mass on Friday (June 7) at 10.00 am in Church of the Assumption, Booterstown Avenue, followed by burial in Shanganagh Cemetery. Family flowers only please.

Born: 19 September 1916, Glengarriff Parade, North Circular Road, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 07 September1935, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 07 May 1936

Father was Senior Clerk at the Rates Department of Dublin County Council.

Fourth of seven boys with three sisters.

Early education at a local National School and then at O’Connells School