Born: Ireland
Entered:
Died post 1780, Maryland, USA

Left Society of Jesus: ???

◆ Fr Edmund Hogan SJ “Catalogica Chronologica” :
Two Entries

RIP post 1780 Maryland, USA

Probably a brother of John

Named in the MAR CAT 1780

◆ Henry Foley - Records of the English province of The Society of Jesus Vol VII
ASHTON, IGNATIUS, probably brother of John, is named in the Maryland Catalogue for 1780.

Born: 17 December 1948, Albany Road, Ranelagh, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 23 November 1966, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Died: 31 December 2024, St Vincent’s Hospital, Dublin (Rathfanham, Dublin)

Left Society of Jesus: 01 April 1967

Father, Kevin, was an Architect. Mother was Patricia (Moyne).

1 Younger Brother; 3 older and 1 younger Sisters

Educated at Gonzaga College SJ, Dublin

Baptised at St Andrew’s Church, Westland Row, Dublin, 23/12/1948
Confirmed at Church of the Holy Name, Beechwood Avenue, Dublin, by Dr Dunne of Dublin, 09/03/1960

Lived in Rathfarnham until his death in 2024

https://rip.ie/death-notice/peter-barry-dublin-rathfarnham-580017

The death has occurred of

Peter Barry
Rathfarnham, Dublin

Peter Barry (Rathfarnham, Co. Dublin), 31st December, 2024. Peacefully, in the wonderful care of the staff at St. Vincent's Private Hospital, surrounded by his loving family. Predeceased by his parents Maureen and Peter and his sister Paula. Peter will be sadly missed by his beloved wife Anne and cherished son Graham. Peter will be greatly missed by his sisters, brother, nieces, nephews, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, extended family and friends.

A celebration of Peter's life will take place on Saturday at 2pm (4th January) in Fanagans Funeral Home, Willbrook, Rathfarnham, D14W029, followed by Cremation in Mount Jerome.

Date Published:
Tuesday 31st December 2024

Date of Death:
Tuesday 31st December 2024

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/peter-barry-one-of-the-foremost-eye-surgeons-of-his-generation-1.2688815

Obituaries
Peter Barry: One of the foremost eye surgeons of his generation
Obituary: He used surgical skill, persuasiveness and humility to achieve the best possible clinical outcomes

Peter Barry FRCS, who has died unexpectedly after a brief illness aged 67 years, was one of the foremost eye surgeons of his generation. As well as being an international ambassador for Irish ophthalmology, he was the national clinical lead for ophthalmology, leading wide-reaching reforms in hospital and community delivery of eye healthcare.

He pioneered major surgical advances in Irish and European ophthalmology: modern cataract surgery and primary vitrectomy for retinal detachment repair in the early 1980s.

Having wide-ranging international impact, he was a cofounder and recently president of the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (ESCRS). In addition to superb surgical outcomes in his own patients, thousands more had safer cataract surgery when he chaired the first international clinical trial proving the benefit of prophylactic antibiotics. This landmark study has now been accepted worldwide as setting the clinical standard of care in dramatically reducing post-operative infection, the most devastating blinding complication of cataract surgery.

Peter James Barry was born in Dublin and educated at Gonzaga College. Being academic, gregarious and quietly religious, he briefly started Jesuit studies but quickly switched to UCD medical school. Clinical training in ophthalmology began at the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital, Dublin, with completion of the majority of his clinical residency at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London.

Absolute focus
Fellowship training followed in London and the US in vitreoretinal surgery, then in its infancy, but Moorfields quickly established itself as an international leader under Peter’s mentors, David McLeod, Peter Leaver and Robert Cooling. Appointed consultant ophthalmic surgeon in 1984 to his alma mater, the Eye and Ear Hospital, Dublin, he initiated vitreoretinal surgery and maintained a continuous separate retinal detachment rota.

He had a joint appointment with St Vincent’s University Hospital, where he quickly established a dedicated registrar cataract training module.

As ESCRS president, he established three themes: youth, education and research which reflected his lifetime clinical focus. He took an immense interest in fostering the careers of many future ophthalmologists. Combining the attributes of high clinical and surgical acumen, work ethic and attention to detail, his clinics and operating lists were both intense and occasionally dramatic. Mentoring by example, he expected the same absolute focus. Patient empathy was his main driving force and he used his surgical skill, persuasiveness and humility to achieve the best possible clinical outcomes.

Charismatic and debonair
Peter Barry’s Sunday routine began with a ward round at the Eye and Ear Hospital accompanied by his daughter Lisa, followed by ice cream and reading at Mass at St Vincent’s.

Charismatic and debonair, he was great company in social situations and an eloquent protagonist in formal meetings. He was just as happy delivering the Ridley Medal Lecture as sharing clinical woes with a colleague.

He was a devoted family man and he is survived by his wife Carmel and four adult children, David, Stephen, Simon and Lisa.

https://soevision.org/news/peter-barry/

Peter Barry
The SOE Board and Committees would like to extend their sincere sympathies to the family, friends and colleagues of Dr Peter Barry, FRCS, Head of the Department of Ophthalmology in St Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin, who died Thursday, 26 May 2016 after a short illness.

Dr Barry was the senior retinal surgeon at the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital, Dublin. Having completed his training at Moorfield’s Eye Hospital in London, UK, Dr Barry completed a retinal fellowship in the United States. Dr Barry was a founding member of the ESCRS and served as Treasurer, President, Director and guiding light at ESCRS. He was also an integral part The European Alliance for Vision Research and Ophthalmology.

He will be greatly missed by all who knew him.

https://www.escrs.org/eurotimes/peter-barry-1948-2016

PETER BARRY 1948-2016

David Spalton
Published: Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Peter’s sudden and tragic death was a shock for all of us. He was a particularly good friend to me and to many of you who are reading this.
Peter co-organised the European Intraocular Implant Club meeting in Dublin, Ireland in 1990. It was at this meeting that the decision was taken to change the name of the society to the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons, and from that time Peter served as a board member, treasurer, then as president, and finally
as a director.

Throughout all these years he was a steady guiding hand, the work of the society never far from his heart, and the formative role he had in the success of the ESCRS cannot be overstated. In my opinion this success was due to two strong personality attributes – the first being a superb ability to chair a committee meeting, and the second being a dogged determination to see something through to the end once he had started on it, strongly aided by some Irish charm and a puckish sense of humour.

Time and time again I would watch in admiration as, during a committee meeting, after a sometimes lengthy and rather stringent discussion, he would summarise the problem and come up with the common-sense solution that we had all missed, which we could all agree on, and then we would move on to the next item on the agenda.

Through his friendship with Ulf Stenevi and Mats Lundström, he led the way in developing the society’s studies in the prevention of postoperative endophthalmitis and benchmarking surgical outcomes with the
EUREQUO database.

His greatest memorial will be the endophthalmitis study which eventually turned out to be the biggest antibiotic study ever undertaken. He conceived the project, raised the finance and put together a dedicated and expert team, and then saw the project through the trials and tribulations of regulation, bureaucracy and recruitment until its
eventual success.

As we all know now, the intracameral injection of cefuroxime at the end of surgery reduces the incidence of infection five-fold. The study has become the standard of care in many countries and we, as surgeons, and more importantly our patients have good reason to be grateful to him. Few of us will ever leave such a legacy.

Peter was educated at Gonzaga College in Dublin. At one time he contemplated a career in the Church and few of us knew he retained a strong Christian faith throughout his life. However, he went into medicine instead, graduating from University College Dublin in 1974, where he won the Medical Society Gold Medal and also the Gibson Cup, the Irish Medical Schools Debating Cup (perhaps an early sign of later achievements).

He was a resident at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London from 1976 to 1979, followed by a retina fellowship at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA. After this he returned to a consultant appointment at the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital and St Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin.

His funeral took place on the most perfect Irish summer day at the church opposite St Vincent’s Hospital, with a congregation packed to standing room only with his family, his friends and colleagues, golfing chums, and I suspect a large number of grateful patients too. Lisa, his 20-year-old daughter, with great courage and fortitude, gave a eulogy none of those present will ever forget. It was an incredibly sad end to a life so well lived and we all extend our sympathy to his wife Carmel, and his children David, Stephen, Simon and Lisa.

Prof David Spalton is President of the ESCRS

https://www.vision-research.eu/index.php?id=1058

Professor Peter Barry passed away

It is with very great sadness that the EVI announces the death of our colleague Dr Peter Barry, who passed away on Thursday, 26 May 2016 after a short illness.

He was a person of great vision who made an immense contribution not only to the success of the ESCRS but to the wider world of ophthalmology, as indicated by our featured article under http://www.vision-research.eu/index.php?id=888 in remembrance of Peter

Peter Barry was head of the Department of Ophthalmology in St Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin and was the senior retinal surgeon at the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital, Dublin. Having completed his training at Moorfield's Eye Hospital in London, one of the largest eye hospitals in the world, Peter completed a retinal fellowship in the USA.

Peter has served on the Board of the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons for over twenty years first - as Treasurer and as President of this prestigious Society. He was a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, the Irish College of Ophthalmology, the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons, and the United Kingdom and Ireland Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons.

Peter will be sorely missed.

Born: 23 June 1842-,
Entered: 03 November 1859, Naples Italy (NAP) / 2nd year Novitiate at Tullabeg (HIB)
Ordained: 1872

Left Society of Jesus: 1896

1859-1860: Naples, Italy (NAP), Novitiate
1860-1861: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly (HIB), Novitiate
1861-1864: Aix-les-Bains, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France (LUGD), Rhetoric then Philosophy
1864-1866: Vals, près le Puy, France (TOLO), Philosophy
1866-1867: Sainte Joseph’s Collège SJ, Bordeaux, France (TOLO), Regency
1867-1869: Sainte Marie Collège, Toulouse, France (TOLO), Regency
1869-1870: Cynthia College, Vatican City, Italy, Theology
1870-1874: Innsbruck Kolleg, Innsbruck, Austria (ASR), Theology
1874-1875: Frederick MD, USA (MAR), Tertianship
1875-1876: Georgetown College, Geotgetown, Washington DC, USA (MAR), Teaching
1876-1877: Holy Family Church, 17th and Stiles Streets, Philadelphia PA, USA (MAR), teaching in parish school
1877-1879: Woodstock College, Woodstock MD, USA (MAR), Curate in Church and Missioner to Sykesville
1879-1881: Church of the Sacred Heart, Larimer and 28th Streets, Denver CO, USA, Curate
1881-1883: Catholic Church, Pueblo CO, USA, Curate
1883-1887: Albuquerque Residence, Old Albuquerque NM, USA, Curate
1887-1888: Las Vegas College, Las Vegas NM, USA, awaiting mission
1888-1890: Prescott, Arizona, USA, Curate
1890-1892: El Paso Residence, Oregon Street, El Paso, Texas, USA, Bursar and Curate
1892-1895: Catholic Church, Canon City CO, USA, Curate

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

https://www.lakeexpo.com/obituaries/monsignor-raphael-p-keyes-february-9-1938---july-14-2010/article_54dfe70c-578d-56db-bfa3-aa1cc4021384.html

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.

https://notices.irishtimes.com/death/keyes-monsignor-raphael-rapheal/5807238

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: 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)

https://www.dib.ie/biography/kiely-benedict-ben-a9533

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: 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: 10 December 1871, Killenaule, County Tipperary
Entered: 07 September 1893, St Stanislaus, Florissant MO, USA - Missourianae Province (MIS)

Left Society of Jesus: 1896

Educated Mungret College SJ 1889-1893

1893-1895: St Stanislaus, Florissant MO, USA (MIS), Novitiate
1895-1896: St Stanislaus, Florissant MO, USA, Rhetoric (in CAT still Novice)

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: 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: Clonfert Diocese
Entered: 25 March 1865,

Left Society of Jesus: 1865

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - LEFT and went to America

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: 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.