Born: 21 June 1850, Birr, County Offaly
Entered: 26 September 1868, Milltown Park, Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 27 April 1870

Early education at St Stanislaus College SJ, Tullabeg

Born: 05 February 1878, Hyderabad, Sindh, India
Entered: 14 August 1895, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1896

Educated at Belvedere College SJ

Father was in the Indian Civil Service and came home from Hyderabad to Dublin. Family lived at North Circular Road, Dublin

Step sister a nun of the Daughters of the Cross in England

Born: 07 April 1880, County Tipperary
Entered: 07 September 1897, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1898

Born: 14 June 1874, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 31 Secember 1895, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1896

Born: 05 June 1882, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 09 October 1904, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1905

Born: 03 October 1863, Ossory Diocese
Entered: 01 October 1896, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly
Ordained: pre entry

Left Society of Jesus: 22 February 1897

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - LEFT No Vocation

Born: 03 January 1879, Durrow, Abbeyleix, County Laois
Entered: 07 September 1898, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1900

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Carlow College, student; LEFT

Born: 22 January 1877, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 05 January 1898, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1898

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Dismissed from Novitiate.

Born: 05 April 1878, Rathgar Road, Dublin, County Dublin
Entered: 14 Augist 1895, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly
Died: 03 November 1943, McKees Rocks, PA, USA

Left Society of Jesus: December 1898

Sister was a novice in Loreto Abbey Rathfarnham

Educated at Belvedere College SJ, CUS and Mungret College SJ, Limerick

1895-1897: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly, Novitiate
1897-1898: Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin, Juniorate

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - A ward in chancery, hence delay in his taking First Vows. At the end of two years he took “Vows of Devotion” 15/08/1897. LEFT December 1898 from Philosophy before pronouncing Vows

https://digital.library.pitt.edu/collection/duquesne-light-photograph-collection
Duquesne Light Photograph Collection

What's in the entire collection?
The Duquesne Light Photograph Collection contains approximately 2,255 negatives, the majority of which are 5×7 inch cellulose nitrate negatives. The photographs feature electrical stations, employees, and their families, company outings as well Pittsburgh scenes, including several views of Pittsburgh floods, the 1929 Light's Golden Jubilee honoring the anniversary of Edison's incandescent light bulb, the Cathedral of Learning, and McKees Rocks.

About the Photographer.

All of the photographs in this collection were taken by Patrick Joseph (P.J.) Tyrrell, who was born in Ireland on April 5, 1878. He attended the University of Dublin where he studied electrical engineering. Tyrell moved to Pittsburgh in 1900 and began his career with Duquesne Light in 1904 with the opening of the Brunot Island Power Station. He worked for Duquesne Light Company for 39 years. Living most of his Pittsburgh-area life in McKee's Rocks, Tyrrell died on November 3, 1943.

Born: 24 June 1875, Gorey, County Wexford
Entered: 07 September 1895, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 14 September 1896

Mother moved to Northumberland Road, Donnybrook, Dublin after father’s death.

Educated at Clongowes Wood College

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - A Ward of Chancery, so there might have been an issue about his taking First Vows.

Born: 12 March 1879, County Waterford
Entered: 08 September 1898, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1899

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.

Born: 10 February 1882, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 07 September 1899, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly1900

Left Society of Jesus:

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

Born: 30 September 1878, Ballybought, Tomhaggard, County Wexford
Entered: 22 April 1903, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly
Ordained: 21 December 1902

Left Society of Jesus: 06 February 1904 for health reasons

Born: 1867, County Clare
Entered: 30 December 1893, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1894

Born: 22 August 1883, County Limerick
Entered: 22 April 1903, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1905

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Sand dealer before entry

Born: 10 September 1863, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 14 August 1893, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: March 1894

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Clerk at GSR Rail before entry; LEFT after six months and was received into Mount Mellary

Born: 14 May 1870,
Entered: 24 December 1893, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1894

Born: 06 July 1845, Upper Temple Street, Dublin, County Dublin
Entered: 07 September 1862, Milltown Park, Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 03 February 1863

Educated at St Stasnislaus College SJ, Tullabeg; College Paters Jozefieten, Melle, Flanders, Belgium; Diocesan Seminary Navan and finally Belvedere College SJ

Born: 02 August 1868, County Kildare
Entered: 06 April 1889, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1891 for health reasons

Born: 14 November 1875,
Entered: 09 October 1895, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: November 1896

Born: 16 August 1905, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 30 September 1924, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 18 June 1926

Born: 23 May 1899, County Wexford
Entered: 06 April 1922, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 19 June 1922

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Clerk before entry

Born: 07 August 1886, Glin, County Limerick
Entered: 07 September 1903, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly
Died: 04 February 1940, Kent, England

Left Society of Jesus: 1904

Father was a general merchand and died in 1897. Mother died in 1895.

Eldest of five brothers and two sisters (1 deceased)

Educated at local NS and then Mungret College SJ

https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/john-stephen-pegum-24-5bwbvhBirth
7 AUG 1886 - Shannon, Limerick
Death
4 FEB 1940 - Kent
Mother
Anna Maria Moloney
Father
James Francis Pegum

Born: 20 May 1871, Glenbrook, County Cork
Entered: 23 Setember 1891, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1893

Education at PBC Cork and Blackrock College, Dublin

Born: 30 October 1906, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 01 September 1926, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: November 1926

Educated at Mungret College SJ Apostolic School

Born: 17 October 1890, Dromore, County Down
Entered: 12 November 1920, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 08 January 1921

Born: 28 February 1843, Sicily
Entered: 12 November 1859, Palermo Sicily Italy - Siculae Province (SIC)

Left Society of Jesus: 1864

1859-1860: Palermo, Sicily, Italy (SIC), Novitiate
1860-1861: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly (HIB), Novitiate
1861-1862: Aix-les-Bains, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France (LUGD), Rhetoric
1862-1864: Vals, le Puy, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France (TOLO), Philosophy

Born: 26 May 1901, Baltinglass, County Wicklow
Entered: 31 August 1923, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 26 January 1925

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - At Osterley, England before entry

Born: 04 October 1911, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 02 September 1929, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 04 December 1929

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

Born: 15 April 1875, Granard, County Longford
Entered: 07 September 1891, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly - Hiberniae for Neo-Aurelianensis Province (HIB for NOR)

Left Society of Jesus: 1893

Early education at Granard, County Longoford

Born: 05 December 1878,
Entered: 14 August 1896, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1898

Born: 17 February 1880, Westport, County Mayo
Entered: 07 September 1897, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1899

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

Born: 09 May 1877, Barronstown, County Tipperary
Entered: 23 September 1903, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: June 1904

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

Born: 05 December 1880, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 23 May 1896, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 17 May 1897

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Brother Novice; LEFT. Too young.

Born: 1906, Bruff, County Limerick
Entered: 31 August 1922, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 15 November 1923

Born: 27 January 1870, Nile Street, Cork City, County Cork
Entered: 12 November 1890, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly
Died: 11 November 1904, Claremont Hotel, Howth Road, Howth, County Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 1891 for health reasons

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Journalist before entry. LEFT for health reasons

◆ https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/O'Mahony-169

John Francis O'Mahony
Born 27 Jan 1870 in 25 Nile Street, Cork, County Cork, Irelandmap
Son of John Francis O'Mahony and Mary Ellen (Sheehan) O'Mahony
Brother of Daniel John O'Mahony, Mary O'Mahony, Hannah O'Mahony, Ellen O'Mahony, Norah O'Mahony and Christina Mary O'Mahony
Husband of Honora (Tynan) O'Mahony — married 29 Apr 1895 in Rathfarnham, County Dublin, Irelandmap
DESCENDANTS descendants
Father of Gerard John Cullen O'Mahony, John Finbar Michael O'Mahony and Donal John Patrick O'Mahony
Died 11 Nov 1904 at age 34 in Claremont Hotel, Howth, County Dublin, Ireland

John was the son of John O'Mahony a spirits dealer or vintner, and Mary Sheehan[1].

He was considered to be an up and coming barrister when he died in 1904[2] aged just 34.

It's alleged that he was the basis for the character J. J. Molloy in James Joyce's Ullyses[3].

His sister in law Katharine Tynan published a book called "A Little Book For John O’Mahony’s Friends" after his death[4].

Born: 02 February 1903, Corville, Roscrea, County Tipperary
Entered: 01 September 1919, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1920 for health reasons

Educated at Mungret College SJ

Born: 21 April 1878, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 14 August 1895, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: November 1895

Born: 19 August 1899, Alphonsus Terrace, Limerick City, County Limerick
Entered: 31 August 1915, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 25 August 1917

Father was employed by Messers Cannock & Co and both parents were still living.

Eldest of two boys with five sisters (2 deceased).

Educated at Model School, Limerick, then at Leamy’s National School, Hartsonge Street, and then he went to Crescent College SJ.

Born: 03 December 1877, Carrickfergus, County Antrim
Entered: 14 April 1898, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 15 April 1900

Born: 14 July 1871, County Waterford
Entered: 30 December 1893, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: January 1894

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Was in Maynooth 4.5 years. LEFT within three weeks

Born: 17 November 1884, Cecil Street, Limerick City, County Limerick
Entered: 07 September 1902, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1904

Father was a doctor and died in 1890. Family lived at Richmond Terrace Limerick City, County Limerick

Eldest of two boys.

Educated at St Munchin’s, Limerick and then went to the Redemptorists Juniorate in Broadford. Then he went to Crescent College SJ

Born: 11 July 1885, Ballylongford, County Kerry
Entered: 07 September 1903, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: April 1905

Parents were National School teachers.

Second eldest of four brothers, of whom the eldest is deceased. Five sisters of whom two are deceased.

Educated at local NS and then went to Clongowes Wood College

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Went to St Paul Minnesota USA to be a secular priest

Born: County Galway
Entered: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1921

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Brother Novice; LEFT after two days

Born: 20 April 1885, Heytesbury Street, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 07 April 1901, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: August 1903

Father was an Inspector in the DMP. Family lived at Leinster Road, Rathmines

3rd Eldest of four sons and three sisters.

Educated at Synge Street, then St Mary’s College CSp, Rathmines

Born: 04 January 1877, North Strand, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 13 November 1902, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 13 May 1904

Father was a general merchant and died in 1882. Mother, supported by private means, lived at Portland Street, Dublin

One of six boys and two sisters.

Early education at St Laurence O’Toole’s Convent school, at 10 he went to O’Connell’s Schools for three years, then the Model School in Marlborough Street for 6 months, and then Skerry's Academy for 3 months.

At age fourteen he went into business and remained there for 7 years.

He then went to St Joseph’s Academy, Bagenalstown and matriculated form there in 1901, prior to which he had a private tutor for a year and a half.

Born: 31 October 1909,
Entered: 12 November 1928, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1931

Born: Kilcommon, Nenagh, County Tipperary
Entered: 14 March 1896, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly
Ordained: pre entry

Left Society of Jesus: 1896

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - LEFT during 1st Probation. Unsuited, at least for this province

Born: 18 October 1905, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 01 September 1924, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 23 May 1925

Born: 06 March 1913, Annaghmore, Mountbellew, County Galway
Entered: 02 January 1940, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly
Died: 1985, Annaghmore, Mountbellew, County Galway

Left Society of Jesus: 1940

Brother Novice

Father was John, a farmer, and Mother was Ellie (Stephens).

2 Brothers and 5 Sisters.

Educated at Scoil Naomh Pádraig, Moylough, County Galway up to 6th class. Worked in agriculture and as a plasterer for building contractors up to 1940.

Baptised at St Mary's Church, Mount Bellew Bridge, County Galway, 16/03/1913
Confirmed at St Mary's Church, Mount Bellew Bridge, County Galway, 1925

Born: 17 June 1893, County Carlow
Entered: 28 September 1918, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1920

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Carlow College student; LEFT before taking Vows

Born: 06 April 1908, County Cork
Entered: 01 September 1925, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 04 April 1927 for health reasons

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Pres Cork student; LEFT on account of ill health 01 September 1926; LEFT finally 04/04/1927

Born: 06 November 1909, County Mayo
Entered: 02 September 1929, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 03 May 1930

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - St Muredach's College, Ballina, County May student

Born: 11 July 1907, O’Connell Street, Limerick
Entered: 01 September 1926, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 22 June 1928 for health reasons

Educated at Crescent College SJ

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Crescent student; LEFT on account of health

Born: 06 July 1896, County Armagh
Entered: 07 December 1914, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly
Died: 20 January 1982, Cabinteely, County Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 12 July 1915

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Clongowes and St Mary’s Rathmines student

◆ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond_Murphy

Desmond James Murphy (6 July 1896 – 30 January 1982) was an Irish first-class cricketer.

Born at Armagh, Murphy was educated at Clongowes Wood College in County Kildare.[1] Following World War I, Murphy attended University College Dublin, where he played club cricket for the university cricket team.[1] He later played for Pembroke Cricket Club,[1] and made one appearance in first-class cricket for Ireland against Scotland at Edinburgh in 1920.[2][3] Batting twice during the match, Murphy was dismissed in Ireland's first-innings without scoring by Arthur Sellers, while in their second-innings he was dismissed for the same score by Gerard Crole. He bowled thirteen overs of his leg break googly, but went wicket-less.[4] He later became the headmaster of St Gerard's School, Bray.[1] He died at Cabinteely in January 1982.[1]

Born: 08 January 1851, County Cork
Entered: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: ???

Born: 07 August 1885, Dufferin Avenue, South Circular Road, Dublin City
Entered: 11 April 1901, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1902 for health reasons

Father was a company secretary. He had three brothers and three sisters, of whom he is the second youngest. Siblings in America and one sister a nun in Vienna.

Was educated at O’Connell’s Schools Dublin and then Belvedere College SJ. Left early for health reasons.

Born: 16 November 1879, Lisard, Edgeworthstown, County Longford
Entered: 05 January 1898, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1899

Father was a Magistrate and DL

Sixth of a family of eight with one deceased.

Educated at Blackrock College

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: 31 May 1908, Lighthouse Station, Islandmagee, Larne, County Antrim.
Entered: 01 September 1925, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 22 August 1927

Father worked for Irish Lights Service.

Eldest of two boys and two girls (one died in 1918 at Sampling Lighthouse, Tralee, County Kerry from meningitis and flu).

While living at Blacksod, Belmullet, County Mayo he was educated at St Muredach’s College, Ballina for six years.

Born: 16 June 1885, Wilton, Murroe, County Limerick
Entered: 08 September 1903, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: November 1904

Father was a cooper and carpenter and died in 1901. Mother was suppported by her older sons.

Youngest of four boys.

Educated at Murroe NS until fourteen, then one at Cappamore, County Limerick, the Christian Brothers, Limerick and in 1902 Crescent College SJ

Born: 03 February 1869, Australia
Entered: 24 July 1894, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1895

Born: 23 December 1884,
Entered: 29 September 1921, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 05 November 1921

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Lecturer at Queen’s University Belfast before entry

Born: 13 November 1919, New Street, Abbeyfeale, County Limerick
Entered: 07 September 1939, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 04 December 1940

Parents, John and Hannah (Johanna O’Brien) were shopkeepers and cattle dealers. Mother deceased at time of entry. Father lived then on private means and mother died in 1936.

Fourth of four boys and one sister. (Two other siblings were “in Religion”, including Michael SJ, RIP 1984)

Educated at a National School, then at St Michael's College, Listowel, County Kerry and then at Mungret College SJ

Baptised at St Mary’s Church, New Street, Abbeyfeale, County Limerick, 14/11/1919
Confirmed at St Mary’s Church, New Street, Abbeyfeale, County Limerick, by Dr Keane of Limerick, 01/07/1933

Born: 23 February 1919,
Entered: 11 April 1938, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 10 February 1939

Born: 23 February 1904, County Antrim
Entered: 04 June 1921, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: October 1921

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Draper and Bootmaker before Entry

Born: 06 March 1900, County Cork
Entered: 31 August 1917, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 27 February 1918 for health reasons

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Clongowes student; LEFT due to bad health

Born: 13 April 1894,
Entered: 06 October 1917, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1920

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Brother Novice; Fitter before entry

Born: 07 March 1906,
Entered: 01 Seprember 1925, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 26 January 1926

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - University College Cork student before entry

Born: 13 April 1878, Brighton Place, King’s Heath, Birmingham, England
Entered: 09 September 1895, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 24 March 1896 for health reasons

Born in Birmingham and family moved to Limerick City, County Limerick

Educated Crescent College SJ, Limerick and Mungret College SJ

Born: 12 April 1889,
Entered: 07 September 1909, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 23 March 1910

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - LEFT to be a seclar priest 23 March 1910

Born: 17 October 1914, York Terrace, Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin
Entered: 07 September 1939, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 23 March 1940

Father, James, was a chef in Collins’ Barracks, had been a cook in Gardiner Street community. Mother was Kathleen (Brennan). Family resided at Northbrook Terrace, North Strand, Dublin City

Eldest of six boys with one sister.

Early education was nine years at St Joseph’s Christian Brothers school. He then went to work, studying telegraphy. He worked from 1925-1937 in the GPO, Dublin. In 1937 he went back to school at Belmont House, Galloping Green, Stillorgan. Jesuit Provincial L Kieran SJ sent him then to Mungret College SJ

Baptised at St Michael’s Church, Marine Road, Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin, 18/10/1914
Confirmed at The Church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Fairview Strand, Fairview, Dublin, by Dr Byrne of Dublin, 22/03/1927

Born: 04 April 1920, Northbrook Terrace, North Strand, Dublin City
Entered: 14 September 1938, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 10 February 1940

Father, James, was a chef in Collins’ Barracks, had been a cook in Gardiner Street community. Mother was Kathleen (Brennan)

Third of six boys with one sister.

Early education was nine years at St Joseph’s Christian Brothers school, Marino and then at O’Connells school.

Baptised at Church of St Laurence O’Toole, Seville Place, Dublin, 12/03/1920
Confirmed at St Vincent De Paul Catholic Church, Griffith Avenue, Drumcondra, Dublin, by Dr Byrne of Dublin, 18/03/1931

Born: 23 December 1919, Deerpark, Castlecomer, County Kilkenny
Entered: 07 September 1937, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly
Died: 08 November 2003, County Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 05 February 1938

Father, John, was Barrack foreman of works at Portobello. Mother was Anne (Brennan), Family then resided at North Circular Road, Dublin from 1923

Older of two boys with three sisters.

Early education at a Convent school and then at Westland Row CBS. He then went to O’Connells School until 1937

Baptised at Church of the Immaculate Conception, Kilkenny Street, Castlecomer, County Kilkenny, 24/12/1919
Confirmed at St Andrew’s Church, Westland Row, Dublin, 20/02/1930

https://www.dib.ie/biography/mcgough-joseph-christopher-joe-a9334

McGough, Joseph Christopher (Joe)
Contributed by
Clavin, Terry

McGough, Joseph Christopher (Joe) (1919–2003), army officer, barrister and businessman, was born 23 December 1919 at Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny, the fourth child and first son of John McGough, originally of Co. Clare, and his wife Ann (née Brennan). His father, having served as a lieutenant in the Royal Engineers, joined the Irish army on the formation of the Irish Free State (1922). In 1923, he was transferred to Beggars Bush barracks in Dublin, settling with his family on the North Circular Road; Joseph attended the nearby O’Connell’s CBS. In 1938, he commenced an arts degree at UCD, but switched to law a year later. At secondary school he had organised sporting events and he was similarly active at college; a member of the UCD rowing club, he also served as secretary of the Students’ Representative Council.

Army and law He enlisted in the Defence Forces on 29 June 1940. A member of the Army Signal Corps, he was commissioned a second lieutenant within two months, and was subsequently promoted first lieutenant (1942) and captain (1946). During the 1940s, he completed a course in electronics in Kevin Street College of Technology. He served throughout the country, including service with the Irish‐speaking Céad Cath battalion in Galway. On 1 August 1945 he married Dr Ann Frances (Nancy) Hanratty, a psychologist, daughter of John Hanratty of Parnell Square, Dublin. They had a son and a daughter. From 1948 the family lived in an impressive Georgian house – later a listed building – in Rathfarnham, Co. Dublin. Attached (as a member of the Signal Corps) to the Army Air Corp at Baldonnell, Co. Dublin, he enrolled at King’s Inns in 1947, qualifying as a barrister in 1951; he was called to the English Bar six years later. He served as staff officer to the director of signals at Army HQ from 1949 to 1955, when he was appointed one of two judge advocates on the staff of the adjutant general; he was promoted commandant soon after.

By 1960 his pension entitlement was sufficiently generous to permit him to retire from the army and practise at the bar. While sick with influenza in early 1962, he applied (apparently on a whim) for three jobs advertised in the newspapers. All three applications were successful and he elected to become the secretary of An Bord Bainne (the milk board), a newly established state agency. This career change was facilitated by his service in a part‐time capacity during 1960–62 as secretary to the Irish Exporters Association through which he obtained in autumn 1961 a scholarship for a twelve‐week marketing course in Harvard.

Kerrygold With his newly acquired marketing knowledge, and possessing administrative expertise and an understanding of the civil service mindset, McGough was suitably qualified for the daunting task at hand. Irish dairy was geared towards self‐sufficiency and hobbled by a surfeit of small, inefficient creameries which, like the dairy farmers, were resistant to change and unwilling to consider the good of the industry over their own interests. Bord Bainne effectively provided a minimum price for farmers’ milk by buying dairy products for export from the creameries at a guaranteed price with two‐thirds of any resulting loss being absorbed by the Exchequer – the remainder was passed back to the dairy farmer in the form of a levy.

With McGough as his right‐hand man, the Bord Bainne general manager Tony O’Reilly sought to cajole a faction‐ridden board into supporting an export drive. McGough established an immediate rapport with the youthful O’Reilly with whom he shared a sharp sense of humour. In his reminiscences, O’Reilly emerges as eager to lead the modernisation of Irish economic life and inwardly exasperated by the incomprehension and hostility with which farmers and dairy producers greeted his strictures. Older and more inclined to accept the world as it was, McGough’s diplomacy complemented O’Reilly’s zeal; so too did his ability to defuse a tense situation with a well‐timed quip. Their first and most important initiative was the launch of Kerrygold, the first ever branded Irish butter made specifically for the British market. The campaign, which began in October 1962, proved a resounding success by utilising modern marketing techniques in promoting a very traditional view of Ireland as an unspoilt Arcadia. Both McGough and O’Reilly worked frenetically on the campaign and it was the making of them.

Bord Bainne head McGough became assistant to the general manager in April 1965 before succeeding O’Reilly in late 1966. A fluent and witty speaker (much in demand for speaking engagements) he showed a particular flair for dealing with the media, which combined with the goodwill generated by the success of Kerrygold guaranteed him a largely adoring press, who portrayed him as the archetypal Lemass‐era business leader driving the country’s renewed engagement with modernity and the wider world through the medium of commerce.

Nonetheless the Bord Bainne ‘success story’ did elicit more cynical responses in some sections of the press and among the wider public who were subsidizing dairy export losses while having to pay higher prices for domestic dairy products. In particular Bord Bainne’s failure to produce fully transparent financial statements drew adverse comment. Undoubtedly very good at marketing Irish dairy products abroad, he also excelled at promoting the heavily subsidized dairy sector and the marketing skills of both Bord Bainne and himself to the non‐farming Irish public. A consummate insider, his urbane manner and relentless optimism made it easy to caricature him as an overly complacent member of the state sector aristocracy.

Pre‐EEC McGough promoted the ongoing diversification of Irish dairy manufacturing into products that were less reliant or not at all reliant on subsidies, such as cheese, skimmed milk powder, fresh creams and chocolate crumb, although butter remained predominant because it absorbed the most milk. In the UK he focused on developing a market for quality Irish cheeses, which culminated in the launch of Kerrygold cheese in 1969. The quota system imposed on Irish dairy products imported into the UK led him to continue the policy of orderly marketing whereby a demand was first created for a product thereby strengthening Ireland’s efforts to have import quotas increased.

His early years as general manager were spent grappling with Ireland’s ballooning exportable milk surplus, which rose from 120 million gallons in 1962 to some 340 million gallons in 1970. With the UK only gradually lifting its import quotas and with Ireland shut out of the most important continental markets by the EEC, McGough was obliged to seek more far‐flung outlets, leading him to travel 245,646 miles between 1 January 1967 and 31 March 1970. Bord Bainne in 1969 invested £12 million in a plant in the Philippines for reconstituting Irish skimmed milk to accord with regional preferences. But during 1968–9 the global overproduction of milk precipitated a collapse in world dairy prices and this meant that some 10% of Ireland’s milk output could not be disposed of in a remotely economical fashion. Unsurprisingly McGough and Bord Bainne came in for much knee‐jerk criticism, although an independent economic survey conducted in 1970 found that Bord Bainne was performing well given the circumstances.

The advent of the EEC’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) intensified Ireland’s reliance on the UK dairy market and the failure in 1970–71 of Bord Bainne’s Filipino venture was another blow to non‐UK exports. In early 1972 McGough used the capital salvaged from the Philippines failure to establish Bord Bainne’s own distribution network in the UK by acquiring Adams Foods, a UK butter and packaging company, with a view to diversifying into marketing and distributing a wide range of foodstuffs including dairy produce sold by Ireland’s competitors within the UK. This alarmed Irish dairy interests, but McGough’s success in building Adams Foods into a profitable foodstuffs company that made Kerrygold products available throughout the UK silenced his detractors.

Inside the EEC Concerns about continental competition within the Irish market once Ireland and the UK joined the EEC helped McGough to persuade the co‐ops to accept the introduction of the Kerrygold brand into Ireland on a restricted basis in 1972. Following Ireland’s accession to EEC membership in 1973 McGough was praised for his foresight, for the manner in which Bord Bainne was skillfully exploiting CAP regulations to sell in non‐EEC markets, and for the speed with which it moved into continental markets, particularly the Ruhr valley in West Germany.

He also handled with assurance the transformation of Bord Bainne from a semi-state institution into a cooperative (more precisely an export cooperative of all the Irish dairy cooperatives) so as to comply with EEC anti‐monopoly regulations. Under the new dispensation Bord Bainne, with McGough as managing director, served as a proxy for the EEC’s intervention authority by buying dairy products for export from the cooperatives at or near intervention price and by distributing any profit achieved evenly among the cooperatives. Bord Bainne as a cooperative enjoyed a privileged relationship with the state, which pledged to underwrite its borrowings up to £5 million; a guarantee that rose to £40 million by 1977. But one happy consequence for McGough of Bord Bainne’s new status was its freedom from public sector pay restrictions; this facilitated a rise in McGough’s own yearly salary from £6,000 in 1973 to £26,000 in 1977, comfortably outstripping inflation.

McGough’s policy was to use intervention only as a last resort and he noted proudly that he sold no butter into intervention, a strategy considered eccentric in other EEC countries, and by some Irish dairy manufacturers. McGough justified it as designed to strengthen Ireland’s hand in EEC negotiations; more pertinently, sales into intervention might lead to questions about the Irish dairy industry’s need for a central marketing agency.

Entry into the EEC removed the burden of guaranteeing milk prices from the Irish taxpayer and the EEC more than trebled the price of milk per gallon by 1977. Nonetheless, smarting from their experiences in the late 1960s Irish farmers were reluctant to recommit themselves to dairying, and milk production fell in 1974 after a severe winter. McGough launched a well‐publicised ‘More milk’ campaign, yielding a dramatic rise in production from 590 million gallons in 1974 to 735 million gallons in 1977.

Problems However, the workings of the EEC also had the effect of restricting and undermining Bord Bainne’s role. In particular, by providing a guaranteed price only for butter and skimmed milk powder, the EEC subverted the board’s longstanding policy of diversification. Ignoring McGough’s protests, the Irish creameries took the immediate profits available, and by 1976 seventy‐five per cent of Ireland’s exportable milk was going into butter. The EEC had been expected to eliminate Australia and New Zealand from the UK dairy market, but the UK secured special trading rights for New Zealand; combined with a fall in butter consumption in the UK, this made the 1970s a challenging period for Kerrygold sales. The UK’s forbearance towards New Zealand and refusal to countenance EEC levies on dairy substitutes frustrated McGough, who condemned what he saw as the excessively consumerist orientation of British food policy. In one of his last public pronouncements as managing director of Bord Bainne, he criticized the UK for negotiating in bad faith in EEC talks, and urged the Irish government to adopt a similarly ruthless attitude to negotiations.

EEC membership also precluded McGough from compelling cooperatives to export through Bord Bainne. More fundamentally, the sense of urgency and unity instilled into the industry by the adverse trading climate of the 1960s dissipated once Ireland joined a large and lavishly protected agricultural market. The larger cooperatives increasingly sought to export independently when prices were high and only relied on Bord Bainne when they believed they could do no better. McGough threatened to expel wayward cooperatives from the Bord Bainne fold but settled for preserving the appearance of central marketing. It was also reported that he was obliged to grant the most powerful cooperatives a larger share of Bord Bainne’s profits.

During the mid 1970s McGough harboured ambitions to establish a central marketing organization for all Irish food exports. His appointment in July 1974 as chairman of the Pigs and Bacon Commission (which essentially performed the same role as Bord Bainne for pig and bacon exports) was seen as part of this process. In the event, his three‐year term of office was marred by his sanctioning in August 1975 of the purchase of the British firm Bearfield Stratfield, already the commission’s main British distributor, which he hoped to use as a vehicle for distributing bacon under a national brand. But by summer 1976 it was clear that this attempt to recreate the success of Adams Foods had miscarried disastrously. When McGough failed to persuade the pig farmers and processors to provide necessary further capital for Bearfield Stratfield, which had recorded substantial losses, the company had to be wound up. Furthermore, in 1977, Adams Foods experienced temporary difficulties after a failed expansion into frozen foods. These setbacks encouraged a reaction against McGough’s empire‐building within Irish political and agri‐business circles.

During 1976–7 the government considered reducing or even ending its underwriting of Bord Bainne’s borrowings which were reaching alarming proportions arising from the breakneck growth of the dairy industry from 1973. The industry’s growing stock requirements and seasonality – the overwhelming majority of milk produced was sent to the dairies in the summer – obliged Bord Bainne to become one of the larger borrowers on the London money markets from the late 1960s and to cope with increasingly troublesome cash flow and interest charge conundrums, which the introduction of a capital levy in 1977 was but a first step towards resolving. In 1977, peak seasonal borrowings were £131 million. Despite these difficulties, McGough maintained a good reputation, benefiting by association from the subsidy‐fuelled increase in dairy farming incomes and in milk output that occurred after 1973. This was borne out by his appointment in 1976 to head a commission established by the International Dairy Federation to examine the marketing of milk and dairy produce, and by the decision of Business and Finance magazine to make him their Irish business executive of the year for 1976.

Final years Aware that challenging times beckoned, he left Bord Bainne in February 1978 to resume his practice as a barrister. Thereafter he divided his work time between the bar – he became a senior counsel in 1982 – and his rapidly accumulating company directorships; by 1984 he was a director of eighteen companies (ten as chairman) involving him in a diverse range of business sectors. Throughout his career he showed his public spiritedness in membership of many societies, charities and commerce‐ or export‐related bodies, and he was able to devote more time to these after leaving Bord Bainne. In 1978 he was appointed chairman of the newly established Co‐operation North which had been founded to improve relations between the Republic and Northern Ireland, a priority for McGough ever since the unionist community in Northern Ireland had effectively boycotted Kerrygold products (for being so identifiable with the Republic) following the outbreak of the Troubles in 1969. He was appointed chairman of Gorta in 1979 and of the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) in 1981. Under his direction the ASA drew up the first code of practice for the Irish advertising industry. He was also a director of the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin and chairman of the Salvation Army Advisory Board. In 1987 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Ulster. Easing into a new role as the avuncular elder statesman of the Irish business scene, he appeared frequently on RTÉ television and radio throughout the 1980s, reminiscing (often humorously) about his business and army experiences. Effortlessly debonair, always immaculately attired and deeply cultured, McGough enjoyed literature, theatre and ballet, serving as president of the Irish ballet society in his army days. He died in Dublin on 8 November 2003 and was buried at Kilmashogue cemetery on 11 November. In the 1970s he wrote a draft autobiography, which was not published.

In his belief in close cooperation between the state and certain economically significant corporations and in his belief that these quasi‐state corporations were obliged to consider not just the profit motive but also the impact of their actions on society, McGough was of his time. Such paternalism could engender a sense of impunity and collusion between vested interests that ill served the interests of the consumer and taxpayer. Similarly his demanding clients in rural Ireland often contended that he and Bord Bainne favoured the big farmer over the small. These complaints failed to take account of Bord Bainne’s important, politically necessary but largely unacknowledged role in mitigating and retarding – in the interests of social stability – the inevitable dissolution of Ireland’s small‐farming social structure. As the dynamic figurehead of Ireland’s burgeoning agri‐welfare complex McGough played a pivotal role in the management of this fraught transition.

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Born: 06 April 1890, County Longford
Entered: 13 January 1920, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 14 January 1922

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Brother Novice; A Clerk in London before Entry

Born: 23 May 1888, Loughrea, County Galway
Entered: 06 May 1920, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1921

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Draper before entry

Born: 03 August 1877,
Entered: 07 September 1897, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1898

Born: 31 January 1874, County Westmeath
Entered: 30 July 1891, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1892

Born: 14 July 1917, Brighton Terrace, Cobh, County Cork
Entered: 14 September 1938, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 12 March 1940

Father, Thomas, worked in Customs and Excise at Cobh. Mother was Mary (Murphy). Family resided at Hawthorn Terrace, Cobh, County Cork

Eldest of three boys with one sister. (Oldest brother was an invalid)

Early education was at a private school and then at the Presentation Brothers Cobh for 12 years (1928-1935). After school then worked as a clerical officer in the Civil Service in Dublin for almost three years, living at Millmount Terrace, Drumcondra, Dublin.

Baptised at St Colman's Cathedral, Cathedral Place, Cobh, County Cork, 27/07/1938
Confirmed at St Colman's Cathedral, Cathedral Place, Cobh, County Cork, by Dr Browne of Cloyne, 16/06/1928

Born: 28 March 1883, Clonmel, County Tipperary
Entered: 07 September 1900, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: October 1900

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - LEFT 1st probation. No vocation, at least not then.

Born: 12 March 1871,
Entered: 15 June 1889, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1890

Born: 08 May 1897, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 31 August 1921, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 04 November 1921

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Bank Clerk before entry

Born: 03 October 1837, County Clare
Entered: 30 April 1962, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1862

Born: 09 October 1876, Boyle, County Roscommon
Entered: 20 May 1897, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1897

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - LEFT No vocation

Born: 12 February 1886, Miltown Malbay, County Clare
Entered: 08 September 1903, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly
Died: 29 September 1948, West Cliff, Spanish Point, County Clare, Ireland

Left Society of Jesus: August 1904

Parents farmers.

Fourth of a family of nine, six brothers (1 deceased) and three sisters (2 deceased).

Early education was at a local NS, and then with a tutor from Dublin. At 11 he went to Clongowes

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Daniel Ignatius MacClancy
Birth
12 Feb 1886 - Miltown Malbay, Clare, Ireland
Death
29 Sep 1948 - West Cliff, Spanish Point, Clare, Ireland
Mother
Mary E McMahon
Father
James Snr MacClancy

Born: 06 October 1895, Cork City, County Cork
Entered: 23 September 1891, St Stanislaus, Macon GA, USA - Neo Aurelianensis Province (NOR)

Left Society of Jesus: July 1892

2nd year Novitiate at Tullabeg (HIB)

Educated at Castleknock College and PBC Cork and Royal University, Dublin

Born: 27 October 1888, Demerera, Guyana
Entered: 26 September 1914, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly - - Hiberniae for Siculae Province (HIB for SIC

Left Society of Jesus: 14 October 915

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Doctor before Entry

Born: 20 June 1884, Dundrum House, Dundrum, Dublin, County Dublin
Entered: 06 September 1902, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly
Died: 16 May 1963, Sandyford, County Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: July 1903

Father was Chief Justice in Newfoundland, and died in 1897. Mother lived at New Brighton, Monkstown, Dublin.

3 sisters (one deceased) and none brothers (2 deceased) and is the youngest in the family.

Education at Clongowes

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Little, Patrick John (‘P. J.’)

Contributed by
Coleman, Marie

Little, Patrick John (‘P. J.’) (1884–1963), journalist, lawyer, and politician, was born 17 June 1884 in Dundrum, Co. Dublin, son of Philip Francis Little and Mary Jane Little (née Holdwright). His father, born in Canada of Irish parents, was a former leader of the Liberal party in Newfoundland, and served as premier, attorney general, and high court judge in Newfoundland, before coming to Ireland, where he became a supporter of the Irish parliamentary party.

Educated at Clongowes Wood College, Little studied law at UCD, where he was a prominent figure in the Literary and Historical Society. Associated with journalism from his time as manager of UCD's St Stephen's magazine, he was editor of various Sinn Féin newspapers between 1915 and 1926, including Old Ireland, New Ireland, Éire, Sinn Féin, and An Phoblacht. Involved in the forgery of the ‘Castle document’ which ordered the suppression of the Irish Volunteers prior to the Easter rising, he was on the Sinn Féin executive 1917–22, and stood as Sinn Féin candidate for Dublin Rathmines in the 1918 general election but was defeated by the unionist Sir Maurice Edward Dockrell (qv). From April to December 1921 he was a diplomatic representative of Dáil Éireann, visiting South Africa and South America, and in January 1922 attended the Irish Race Conference in Paris as Brazilian representative. He also became a partner in the legal firm Little, Proud, & Ó hUadhaigh, where one of his partners was Seán Ó hUadhaigh (qv).

An opponent of the Anglo–Irish treaty and founder member of Fianna Fáil, he was elected TD for Waterford in the June 1927 general election, a seat he held until his retirement from politics in 1954. Having served (1933–9) as parliamentary secretary to Éamon de Valera (qv) as minister for external affairs and president of the executive council/taoiseach, he was minister for posts and telegraphs 1939–48, which included responsibility for broadcasting. As minister he utilised the influence of his office for the development of arts and music. He had a particular interest in developing the potential of radio, and promoted the broadcasting of traditional and classical music on Radio Éireann, which included the hosting of a large series of public symphonic concerts by RÉ during the 1940s. Opposed to direct political control of broadcasting, he believed that it should be administered by a semi-state body.

Throughout the 1940s he championed unsuccessfully the establishment of a national concert hall, which he linked with his support for a council of national culture. When the British government established the Arts Council of Great Britain in late 1945, he looked to it as a model of what might be established in Ireland. The Arts Act 1951, which established An Chomhairle Ealaíon (Arts Council) and was enacted shortly before the government of John A. Costello (qv) left office, was essentially what Little had proposed in 1946. It was appropriate that de Valera, who regarded Little as his arts advisor, should appoint him director for a five-year term (Costello had intended to appoint Thomas Bodkin (qv)). Despite his age (he was 68 on appointment) he was an energetic director, and effective to the extent that the financial constraints of the early 1950s permitted. He established specialist panels to advise on particular aspects of the arts and followed the British example in launching local advisory committees (an initiative that ultimately petered out). Little did not stand in the 1954 general election.

Outside politics,
Little was involved for many years in working for the sick in Lourdes as a brancardier and was made a chef de service in 1935. He married (1917) Seonaid Ní Leoid; they had no children, but Seonaid had two daughters and a son from a previous marriage. He died 16 May 1963 at his home, Clonlea, Sandyford, Co. Dublin.

Sources
Liam C. Skinner, Politicians by accident (1946); Arts Council of Ireland, Annual Reports (1951–6); James Meenan (ed), Centenary history of the Literary and Historical Society (1955); Ir. Press, 17 May 1963; Maurice Gorham, Forty years of Irish broadcasting (1967); Vincent Browne (ed.), Magill book of Irish politics (1981); Walker; DCB, xii (1990); Brian P. Kennedy, Dreams and responsibilities. The state and the arts in independent Ireland [1990]; Ronan Fanning et al. (ed.), Documents on Irish foreign policy, i, 1919–22 (1998)

Born: 24 February 1840, Sicily, Italy
Entered: 29 July 1860, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly - Hiberniae for Siculae Province (HIB for SIC))

Left Society of Jesus: 1862

Born: 05 April 1871, County Clare
Entered: 24 March 1900, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: April 1902

Born: 07 December 1879,
Entered: 07September 1898, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: August 1900

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Dismissed August 1900. No Vocation

Born: 03 May 1973, County Cork
Entered: 03 May 1892, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: March 1893

Educated at Belvedere College SJ and Clongowes Wood College SJ

Born: 26 November 1906, Tullybrackey, Bruff, County Limerick
Entered: 31 August 1922, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 22 November 1923

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

Born: 19 July 1906, Tramore, County Waterford
Entered: 13 September 1924, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 14 January 1925

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

Born: 20 November 1878, Belgrave Square, Rathmines, Dublin
Entered: 07 September 1895, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 29 April 1897 for health reasons

Educated at Christian Brothers School Synge Street and Clongowes Wood College SJ

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Brother of Alexander Kickham who died in the Novitiate 1892. DISMISSED 29 April 1897, No vocation and bad health

Born: 17 August 1881, Kilkenny City, County Kilkenny
Entered: 07 September 1900, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: October 1900

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Clongowes student; LEFT during Long Retreat Oct 1900

Born: 17 March 1844, County Fermanagh
Entered: 21 March 1866, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1867

Only reference to this man is in ◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948. No idea of when he left, but as he is not in Catalogue, it must have been soon after entry.

There is also a Charles Kerin from Tuam who entered 1869 as a priest and LEFT 1877

Born: 22 March 1911, Clongowes Wood, County Kildare
Entered: 02 September 1929, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 19 January 1930

Educated at Mungret College SJ

Born: 08 January 1879, Shankill, County Armagh
Entered: 11 October 1912, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: February 1913

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - LEFT beacuse of ill health