Born: 22 December 1822, Magerafelt, County Derry
Entered: 12 August 1853, Montréal, Québec, Canada - Franciae Province (FRA)
Professed: 15 August 1863
Died: 06 May 1897, St Ignatius, Park Avenue, New York, NY, USA - Marylandiae Neo-Eboracensis Province (MARNEB)

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.

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/fr-aidan-larkin-played-a-leading-role-in-development-of-sdlp-1.3947984

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: 14 April 1931, National Bank, Magherafelt, County Derry
Entered: 07 September 1950, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Ordained: 31 July 1963, Milltown Park, Dublin
Final Vows: 02 February 1968, Chiesa del Gesù, Roma, Italia
Died: 26 January 2017, St Vincent’s Hospital, Dublin

Part of the Milltown Park, Dublin community at the time of death.

Son of Patrick Joseph Moloney and Eva Hogan. Father was a Bank Manager and the family lived at the National Bank, Magherafelt, County Derry.

Born in Belfast.

Younger of two boys with one sister.

Early Education at NS Magherafelt, Co Derry, Northern Ireland and then he went to Clongowes Wood College SJ for six years.

After school he studied at Queen’s University for one year before entry

1952-1954 Rathfarnham - Studying Arts at UCD
1954-1957 Tullabeg - Studying Philosophy
1957-1960 Crescent College SJ - Regency : Teacher
1960-1964 Milltown Park - Studying Theology
1964-1965 Paray-le-Monial, France - Tertianship at Maison La Colombière
1965-1967 Bellarmino, Rome, Italy - Studying Theology at Gregorian University
1967-1968 Trier, Germany - Diploma Course in Liturgy at German Liturgical Institute
1968-1984 Milltown Park - Teacher of Theological Dogma & Liturgy
1977 President of Milltown Institute
1983 Sabbatical
1984-1989 Nairobi, Kenya - Professor of Theology at Hekima College School of Theology
1989-2017 Milltown Park - Professor of Systematic Theology at Milltown Institute
1993 Director of Lonergan Centre
1996 Visiting Professor at Hekima College School of Theology
2001 Professor Emeritus of Theology at Milltown Institute; Director of Lonergan Centre; Writer
2015 Director of Lonergan Centre; Writer

by 1965 at Paray-le-Monial, France (GAL M) making Tertianship
by 1966 at Rome, Italy (ROM) studying
by 1968 at Trier, Germany (GER S) studying
by 1985 at Nairobi, Kenya (AOR) teaching - Hekima

◆ Jesuits in Ireland : https://www.jesuit.ie/news/fine-scholar-outstanding-lecturer/

‘Fine scholar, outstanding lecturer’
Jesuits, family and friends of the late Ray Moloney SJ packed into Milltown Chapel for his funeral mass celebrated by Bill Matthews SJ. Ray died on 26 January, aged 85. He was born in Belfast in 1931 and raised in Magherafelt, Co. Derry. At the age of 12 he went to Clongowes Wood College SJ and joined the Jesuits in 1950. Most of his life revolved around the Milltown Institute where he taught theology and liturgy. He spent five years on the missions in Kenya where he learnt Swahili so he could travel and celebrate Mass with the local people. He was the respected author of many theological books, and well known for his theology of the Eucharist.
Homilist Brian Grogan SJ noted that Ray’s writings on the Eucharist offered fleeting glimpses into his soul. Ray summarised his book Rediscovering the Eucharist not in terms of sacrifice, or obligation, or the Real Presence, but in terms of friendship. “In the Eucharist we already anticipate something of what our friendship with Christ will be when it comes to its full flowering in heaven. In the long run that friendship is all that matters,” he wrote.
Referring to his long academic ministry, Brian said that Ray was a “fine scholar and outstanding teacher.” This view was echoed widely by many of his former students who posted on the Irish Jesuits Facebook page. “Fond memories of learning theology from Ray Moloney. A scholar and a gentleman”, wrote Thomas Giblin. And US Jesuit James Pribek commented, “He combined fine scholarship with genuine humility and benevolence. In a group, he was usually on the edge, taking everything in and smiling. He radiated peace. May God be good to him”.
In his wide-ranging homily Brian spoke also about Ray’s life as a Jesuit, noting that his ministry in the intellectual apostolate was underpinned by a deep faith, committed prayer life and love of God. He said he lived an ascetic, almost monastic life, and a fitting symbol for that life was his breviary. “Ray leaned into the contrary wind and lived an orderly and predictable day. Some clerics, I have heard, sailed with the prevailing wind and eased up on the divine office, but not he... At the end his well-worn breviary was the only book beside his bed.”
Brian acknowledged that Ray held firmly to what some would call a more conservative theological position and was slow to relinquish beliefs that were dear to him. “But agree with him or not, he commanded your respect. He knew where he stood, and had a steely quality characteristic of his Northern Ireland roots.” He was also prepared to change and develop, something attested to in a few words from Provincial Leonard Moloney just before the final commendation. He said he had been speaking to Ray not too long before his death and Ray told him that his prayer had changed in recent times and was now much more affective than rational.
Speaking at the end of the Mass, Ray’s niece also told a revealing story about the man her family knew and loved. She remembered with fondness his visits to her home as a child and how he would let her put her feet on his shoes as he danced her round the room.
Brian concluded his homily with the following words: “In a little while we will say: ‘We shall become like God, for we shall see him as he is.’ Like Aquinas when asked by God ‘What do you want?’, Ray would have responded, ‘Teipsum, Domine. Yourself, Lord.’ ... Ray now sees God. He is enlightened, entranced, immortalised and divinised. Our Eucharist today is a thanksgiving for all that God has accomplished in our brother and friend, Ray Moloney”.
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam dílis.

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

Left Society of Jesus: 11 December 1940

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

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

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

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

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

SWEENEY
Plunkett Joseph

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

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