Born: 06 March 1708, New Ross, County Wexford
Entered: 31 July 1730, Nancy, France - Campaniae Province (CAMP)
Ordained: 23 September 1742, Tours, France
Final Vows: 15 August 1746
Died: 16 December 1766, France/Ireland - Campaniae Province (CAMP)

1737 Teaching Humanities at Sens
1741-1744 Studying Theology and Prefect of Boarders at Irish College Poitiers
1746 at Charleville (CAMP) teaching Humanities and Philosophy
1748 Sent to Poitiers and also is in Ireland. Back in Poitiers 1749
1752 Procurator at Poitiers
1763-1767 in Ireland
Some confusion over dates he was in Poitiers and in Ireland - including saying he was said to be still in Ireland in 1767

◆ Fr Edmund Hogan SJ “Catalogica Chronologica” :
1748 Taught Humanities for five years and Philosophy for three at Charleville (in pen)
1752 Procurator at Irish College Poitiers (in pen)

◆ Fr Francis Finegan SJ General Notes
After First Vows he studied Philosophy at Pont-à-Mousson (1733-1735) and then Theology at Grand Collège Poitiers. In the meantime he had spent seven years in regency at Épinal, Sens and Auxerre.
1740-1744 He was sent for Theology to Grand Collège Poitiers, whilst living at the Irish College there. He was Ordained at Tours 23/09/1742
1744-1747 After Ordination and completing his formation he held a Chair of Philosophy at Charleville CAMP
1748-1755 At Poitiers as Procurator of the Irish College for seven years, when it is thought he was to go to Ireland. he is mentioned in subsequent CATS as being in Ireland, but at that time this could also mean at one of the Irish Colleges or Mission

According to CAMP CAT he was living in Ireland up to 1767, but there is no evidence to support this. He may be identical with a Father Cahill living at Bordeaux in 1759, and could have been working with a large colony of Irish there. The date and place of his death are unknown.

Born: 22 February 1629, County Kildare
Entered: 30 September 1648, Kilkenny City, County Kilkenny
Ordained: c 1656, Bourges, France
Died: 28 September 1671, Dublin City, County Dublin - Franciae Province (FRA)

1651 At La Flèche College FRA
1655 At Bruges College FRA
1658 Not in main body of FRA Catalogue, but at the end as teaching in France
1661 At Vannes College teaching Grammar
1665 Not in FRA Catalogue
1666 is 25 miles from Dublin teaching, catechising and administering the Sacrament. 1st year on Mission

◆ Fr Edmund Hogan SJ “Catalogica Chronologica” :
Studied Humanities and two years Philosophy before Ent, and then a further half year of Humanities afterwards. he knew Irish, English and Latin.
Ent 30/09/1648 (HIB Catalogue 1650 - ARSI)
1665 Sent to Ireland and New Ross
1666 He was a Missioner twenty-five miles from Dublin, teaching catechism to the country people and administering the Sacraments (HIB CAT 1666 - ARSI).
??In 1640 removed with the community to Galway and then to Europe.
1670 Living in Ireland
(Oliver, Stonyhurst MSS)

◆ Fr Francis Finegan SJ :
He had already studied Philosophy for two years before Ent 30 September 1648 Kilkenny
1650-1656 After First Vows he was sent for Philosophy studies to La Flèche and Theology at Bourges where he was Ordained c 1656
1656-1662 Sent to teach at Vannes
1662-1663 Made Tertianship at Rouen
1663-1664 Sent to teach at Tours
1664/65-1667 Sent to Ireland and in the Dublin region for two years and then to New Ross
1671 At New Ross he got into trouble, July 1671, for having challenged the local Protestant Priest to a public dispute in which he would show that the Pope was to be obeyed in spiritual matters but the King in temporal matters only, and also that the Protestant Bible could not be called “Word of God” as it was full of errors. The Protestant cited Nugent before the Assizes when he was sentenced to a year's imprisonment, and his goods were confiscated. The incident was reported.to the Holy See and the General and latter wrote at once to the Superior of the mission advising him that none of his subjects should engage in public controversy except with the advice of Hierarchy and the Superior himself.
On his release from prison Nicholas was recalled to the Dublin district and was working at Beggstown at the time of the Titus Oates's Plot. He died shortly after that, but the date was not recorded.

◆ George Oliver Towards Illustrating the Biography of the Scotch, English and Irish Members SJ
NUGENT, NICHOLAS. I meet with two Members of this name.
The other member was finishing his Noviceship at Kilkenny in 1649. The next year he was removed with his Brethren to Galway, and thence to the Continent, where all traces of him disappear.

Born: 24 September 1724, Munster, Ireland
Entered: 03 October 1741, Paris, France
Ordained: 1753,
Final Vows: 02 February 1759

Left Society of Jesus: 1768

◆ In Chronological Catalogue Sheet

◆ Old/15 (1) has RIP after 1768

◆ CATSJ I-Y has DOB 03/10 or 23/09/1724 Ireland; Ent 03/10/1741 Paris;
1746 At Tours College FRA teaching Grammar
1757 At Rouen College
1760-1761 At Irish College Poitiers - “Desig” for Irish Mission
1761-1762 In Ireland
1766-1768 Rector of Irish College Rome (07/01 or 12/11)
1768 Leaves Rome

◆ Fr Edmund Hogan SJ “Catalogica Chronologica” :
DOB 23/09/1724 Ireland; Ent 03/10/1741 FRA;

1746 Teaching Grammar at Tours (FRA CAT 1746)

◆ Calendar of MacErlean Transcipts Addenda III Catalogi of Irish Mission 1700-1735 & 1735-1752 (Finegan)
1751-1752 Scholastic at Irish College Poitiers

◆ MacErlean Cat Miss HIB SJ 1670-1770
1743 FRA Cat
Novitiate Paris
“Andreas Ryan”
Born 1724 Irish
Entered 03/10/1741
Studying Rhetoric 1

1746 FRA Cat
Collegium Turnoi
“Andreas Ryan”
Born 23/09/1724 Irish
Entered 03/10/1741
Studying Philosophy 2; Teaching Grammar 1

1749 FRA Cat
Collegium Turnoi
“Andreas Ryan”
Born 22/09/1724 Irish
Entered 02/10/1741
Studying Philosophy 2; Teaching Grammar 3, Humanities 1

1754 FRA Cat
Collegium Paris
“Andreas Ryan”
Born 24/09/1724 Irish
Entered 03/10/1741
Studying Philosophy 2, Theology 4; Teaching Humanities 5

Ordained 1753

1757 FRA Cat
Collegium Rouen
“Andreas Ryan”
Born 23/09/1724 Irish
Entered 03/10/1741 Paris
Studying Philosophy 2, Theology 4; Teaching Grammar 4, Rhetoric 1, Philosophy 4

1761 FRA Cat
In Ireland
“Andreas Ryan”

1767 ROM Cat
Irish College Rome
“Andreas Ryan”
Born 22/09/1724 Irish
Entered 10/10/1741
Final Vows 02/02/1759
Studying Philosophy 2, Theology 4; Teaching Grammar 4, Rhetoric 1, Philosophy 4, Theology 2; Missionarius 5; Rector from 11/06/1766

◆ Henry Foley - Records of the English province of The Society of Jesus Vol VII - Second Appendix
RYAN, ANDREW (Irish). He was born September 23, 1724; entered the Society October 3, 1741, and was teaching grammar at Tours in 1746. (Catal. Prov. Fran., 1746.)

◆ Francis Finegan SJ Biographical Dictionary 1598-1773
He was born in Munster September 24, 1724, and he entered the Society at Paris October 3, 1741.

After his Noviceship e studied Philosophy for two years at La Flèche, and was then sent in 1545 to Tours for his Regency. On September 25, 1750, he arrived in Poitiers from Tours. Here he studied Theology for the next four years at the Grand Collège* and resided at the Irish College. he was ordained Priest c 1753; At the end of his studies he made his Tertianship at Rouen, 1754-1755.

He was then appointed Professor of Philosophy at the College of Rouen, and later, Professor of Moral Theology at the College of Nevers.

On October 21, 1760, he arrived once more at Poitiers, this time on his way to the Irish Mission, but does not seem to have arrived in Ireland until the spring of the following year. No record of his missionary work in Ireland has survived.

He was summoned to Rome in 1766, and appointed Rector of the Irish College on June 11. He held that office until December 1, 1768. Some weeks previous to his departure from Rome, he had petitioned Pope Clement XIII for certain indulgences in view of his return to the Irish Mission. His name then disappears entirely from the records.

It has been suggested that he may be identical with a Father Andrew Ryan living at Tullybrackey (Bruff) in 1766, according to a census of the Catholic and Protestant populations made that year (no precise date given). This Andrew Ryan became PP of Fedamore in 17745 and died in 1814.

(Note: the name of Andrew Ryan does not appear on the list of Irish Jesuits who accepted the Brief of Suppression)

• It is possible that Ryan finished Theology in Paris, as he is mentioned in a triennial Catalogue, 1754, as at the Collège Louis le Grand. The difficulty of locating him is increased by the fact that between 1750 and 1754 he was in Aquitaine, and then in Paris, and the yearly Catalogue (brevis) are wanting between 1752 and 1754.