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Carroll, Robert Martin, 1918-2008, former Jesuit scholastic

  • IE IJA ADMN/7/28
  • Person
  • 02 March 1918-09 April 2008

Born: 02 March 1918, Prince Arthur Terrace, Leinster Square, Rathmines, Dublin, County Dublin
Entered: 07 September 1936, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Died: 09 April 2008, St Vincent’s Hospital, Dublin (Cranford Court, Donnybrook, Dublin)

Left Society of Jesus: 20 August 1947 (from Clongowes Wood College)

Father, William, was an official of Great Southern Railways. Mother Agnes (Martin) - RIP by 1945

Younger of two boys.

Early education at a Convent school and then at Belvedere College SJ.

Baptised at St Paul’s, Arran Quay, 17/03/1918
Confirmed at Glasnevin Parish by Dr Byrne of Dublin, 06/03/1928 (home address then Cabra Road, Dublin)

1936-1938: St Mary's, Emo, Novitiate
1938-1941: Rathfarnham Castle, Juniorate
1941-1944: St Stanislaus College Tullabeg, Phisospphy
1944-1947: Clongowes Wood College, Regency

by 1973 is working in the Dept of Psychology at UCD

Address 2000: Cranford Court, Stillorgan Road, Donnybrook, Dublin City

https://notices.irishtimes.com/death/carroll/2410386

CARROLL (DUBLIN) - April 9, 2008 Robert (Bob) of Cranford Court, Donnybrook and formerly of Effra Road, Rathmines. In his 91st year (peacefully) in the loving care of the staff at Our Lady's Ward, St. Vincent's Hospital; beloved son of the late William and Agnes (Prince Edward Terrace) and brother of the late William, deeply regretted by relatives and very large circle of friends. Rest in peace. Removal tomorrow (Friday) from St. Vincent's Hospital to the Church of the Sacred Heart, Donnybrook for 10 o'clock funeral Mass, burial afterwards in Glasnevin Cemetery. No flowers please, donation to St. Vincent de Paul.

Daly, Edward Leslie, 1950-2018, former Jesuit scholastic

  • IE IJA ADMN/7/47
  • Person
  • 01 July 1950-13 June 2018

Born: 01 July 1950, Belmont Avenue, Donnybrook, Dublin, County Dublin
Entered: 07 September 1968, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Died 13 June 2018, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin (Grosvenor Road, Rathmines, Dublin)

Left Society of Jesus: 20 February 1974 (from Rathfarnham Castle)

Father - Edward J, a Bank Official, and Mother Susan Finola (Fitzgibbon). Family lived in Drumcondra until Leslie aged 4. Mother suffered a number of bouts of sever depression.

One younger sister (Grace)

Educated at Gonzaga College SJ, Dublin

Baptised at St Mary’s Haddington Road, 10/07/1950
Confirmed at the Holy Name Beechwood Avenue, by Dr Dunne of Dublin, 09/03/1960

1968-1970: St Mary's, Emo, Novitiate
1970-1974: Rathfarnham Castle, Juniorate at UCD (MSc)

Address 2000 & 1991: Grosvenor Road, Rathmines, Dublin

https://www.fanagans.ie/death-notice/leslie-daly/63431

The death has occurred of

Leslie DALY

DALY, Leslie (Rathmines, Dublin 6) – June 13, 2018 (peacefully) in the tender care of the ICU staff at Beaumont Hospital. Beloved husband of Anne (Dodd), loving father of Erika and Selena. Sadly missed by his wife, daughters, sister Grace, sons-in-law Liam FitzGerald and Andrea Ballatore, grandchildren Iseult and Hugh, brothers-in-law Stephen and Finian, sister-in-law Mary, nieces, nephews, and friends and colleagues at University College Dublin.

https://www.ucd.ie/chas/newsandevents/commemoratingprofessorlesliedaly/

Commemorating Professor Leslie Daly

It is with deep sadness and regret that we share the passing of adjunct Professor of Epidemiology and Biomedical Statistics, Leslie Daly, on 13th June 2018.

Professor Daly joined the academic faculty at UCD in 1976 as a Lecturer in the original Department of Social and Preventive Medicine. He was appointed to Senior Lecturer in 1987, to Associate Professor in 1997 and to a full professorship in 2005. For over 40 years – first at Earlsfort Terrace and then in Belfield – Leslie was embedded in the UCD community both in his own discipline and beyond. Though he was based in the School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science, he also sat on Academic Council and numerous other university committees. He was chairman of UCD Press and a founding member of CSTAR, the Centre for Support and Training in Analysis and Research.

His contribution to public health and epidemiological research in Ireland was immense and he had an international reputation in adult chronic diseases and their causes. He was a very highly cited investigator with well over four hundred publications, many in major medical journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA and BMJ. He was the author of a highly influential textbook, Interpretation and Uses of Medical Statistics, published by John Wiley & Sons. Leslie retired in July 2015 but was appointed as Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology and Biomedical Statistics and continued working with CSTAR and on his research activities.

Outside UCD Leslie provided key support to the examinations committee of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine, Royal College of Physicians in Ireland; his contribution was recognised in 2012 when he was awarded Honorary Fellowship of the Faculty. Leslie was also a seminal contributor from the very early days of what is now the Department of Preventive Medicine and Health Promotion in St Vincent’s University Hospital, when it was a Department of Preventive Cardiology. He provided input to the work programmes and particularly the ground-breaking epidemiological and health promotion research output of this Department over three decades.

Leslie touched many throughout his time at UCD. He was described by those who knew him as warm and supportive to colleagues and students alike, with a great sense of humour, who will be very fondly remembered. Leslie was truly a giant of the UCD academic community and will be deeply missed by all who knew him. Our sincere condolences go to Anne, Erika, Selena and all his family.

Danaher, Kevin DA, 1913-2002, former Jesuit scholastic

  • IE IJA ADMN/7/48
  • Person
  • 30 January 1913-14 March 2002

Born: 30 January 1913, Sunvale, Rathkeale, County Limerick / Drumcondra, Dub;in, County Dublin
Entered: 03 September 1930, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Died: 14 March 2002, Dublin, County Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 03 July 1934 from Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin)

Parents National School teachers.

Second of four boys.

Kevin Donald Anthony Danaher

Early education at Athea NS and Mungret College SJ

1930-1932: St Mary's, Emo, Novitiate
1932-1934: Rathfarnham Castle, Juniorate, UCD

Address after leaving (1951): Calderwood Avenue, Drumcondra, Dublin

https://www.dib.ie/biography/o-danachair-caoimhin-danaher-kevin-a2392

DICTIONARY OF IRISH BIOGRAPHY

Ó Danachair, Caoimhín (Danaher, Kevin)

Contributed by
Lysaght, Patricia

Ó Danachair, Caoimhín (Danaher, Kevin) (1913–2002), university lecturer and folklorist, was born 30 January 1913 in Athea (Áth an tSléibhe), Co. Limerick, the second eldest of four sons of William Danaher, a primary school principal, and his wife Margaret (née Ryan) of Martinstown, Co. Limerick, also a primary school teacher. Educated at Athea national school, Mungret College, Limerick, and at UCD, he graduated BA in 1936, and received a Higher Diploma in Education the following year. As an Alexander von Humboldt Scholar (1937–9), he studied comparative folklore and ethnology at the Universities of Berlin and Leipzig. He was awarded a first class honours MA (NUI) in archaeology in 1945, and a D.Litt. (NUI) in 1974.

He joined the Irish Folklore Commission in January 1940, and then in May the Irish Defence Forces, with whom he remained for the duration of World War II, becoming an instructor in the artillery school in Kildare and rising to the rank of captain. Rejoining the Irish Folklore Commission in 1946, he was sent to Scandinavia to receive training in major folklore and folklife institutions, including the Nordiska Museet (Nordic Museum) and Institutet för Folklivsforskning (The Institute for Folklife Research), Stockholm, Landsmålarkivet (The Dialect Archive), Uppsala, the University of Lund, Norsk Folkeminnesamling (Norwegian Folklore Archive), Oslo, and Dansk Folkemindesamling (Danish Folklore Archive) in København. He met some of the leading folklore and folklife Scandinavian scholars of the day, including C. W. von Sydow (Lund), Sigurd Erixon, Andreas Lindblom and Albert Eskeröd (Stockholm), Dag Strömbäck and Åke Campbell (Uppsala), Albert Sandklef (Varberg), Knut Liestøl and Reidar Th. Christiansen (Oslo) and Hans Ellekilde (København).

His principal responsibility in the Irish Folklore Commission was the development of the ethnological dimension of the commission's work, but until the late 1940s, when outdoor disc-cutting equipment became available, he also made disc recordings of traditional storytellers, singers and musician, in the commission's office at 82 St Stephen's Green, Dublin, including the only recording ever made of the music of the outstanding piper Johnny Doran (qv) (available in The bunch of keys, 1988).

In 1948 Ó Danachair recorded the last native Manx speakers on the Isle of Man, on behalf of the Irish Folklore Commission, redeeming a promise made by Éamon de Valera (qv) when, as taoiseach, he visited the island in 1947. When the transcriptions, translations, and the digitally re-mastered recordings of this unique collection were published as Skeealyn Vannin/Stories of Man, by Eiraght Ashoonagh Vhannin/Manx National Heritage in 2004, a plaque presented by Yn Cheshaght Ghailckagh/The Manx Gaelic Society, was unveiled in the then department of Irish folklore at UCD, in the presence of the speaker of the house of keys, members of Tynwald, the Manx Gaelic Society, and the family of Caoimhín Ó Danachair, to commemorate Ó Danachair's 1948 achievement.

Ó Danachair was visiting professor in Irish Studies at Uppsala University in 1952–3. He served on the National Monuments Advisory Council, and was folklife consultant to the Shannon Free Airport Development Company when Bunratty Folk Park, Co. Clare, was set up in 1964. He was a member of the RSAI, an assistant editor (1971–85) of Béaloideas, the journal of the Folklore of Ireland Society, and co-patron of the society (1988–2002).

Internationally, he was a member of the European Ethnological Atlas Working Group, the International Commission for Ethnological Food Research, the International Society for Folk Narrative Research, the Société Internationale d’Ethnologie et de Folklore, and the Society for Folklife Studies of Britain and Ireland, of which he was vice-president (1979–80) and president (1981–3). He was keenly interested in military history, editing for eleven years the Irish Sword (1960–1971), and serving as president of the Military History Society (1978–87). With the historian J. G. Simms (qv), he edited The Danish force in Ireland, 1690–1691 (1962) for the Irish Manuscripts Commission.

Ó Danachair was a gifted teacher. In 1971, when the Irish Folklore Commission became the Department of Irish Folklore at UCD, Ó Danachair was appointed a statutory lecturer in Irish Folklore. The extent and range of his scholarly publications are evident from Patricia Lysaght's bibliography of his published work in the Festschrift published in his honour in 1982 (see Gailey and Ó hÓgáin), and in Ó Danachair's own publication: A bibliography of Irish ethnology and folk tradition (1978).

In 1951 he married Anna Mary Ryan, a secondary school teacher, of Galbally, Co. Limerick; they had two sons, Dónall (b. 1953), and John Louis (b. 1956). His wife was the eldest of three sons and four daughters of Timothy Ryan, creamery manager, Garryspellane, and of Deborah Ryan (née Scanlan), Galbally, principal teacher of Lowtown Girls’ national school, Co. Limerick.

Caoimhín Ó Danachair died 14 March 2002 in Dublin and is buried in St Fintan's cemetery, Sutton, Dublin.

Sources
Patricia Lysaght, ‘Kevin Danaher (Caoimhín Ó Danachair), 1913–2002’, Folklore, cxiii, no. 2 (2002), 261–4; Patricia Lysaght, ‘Caoimhín Ó Danachair (Kevin Danaher) 1913–2002’, Béaloideas, lxx (2002), 219–26; Patricia Lysaght, ‘Caoimhín Ó Danachair and his published work’, Alan Gailey, Dáithí Ó hÓgáin (ed.), Gold under the furze. Studies in folk tradition. Presented to Caoimhín Ó Danachair (1982), 12–26; Sinsear. The Folklore Journal, iv (1982–83); The bunch of keys. The complete recordings of Johnny Doran (Comhairle Bhéaloideas Éireann/The Folklore of Ireland Council, Dublin, 1988)

Dempsey, Vaughan B, 1895-1961, former Jesuit scholastic, Irish consul

  • IE IJA ADMN/7/51
  • Person
  • 27 March 1895 -30 October 1961

Born: 27 March 1895, Athy, County Kildare / Station House Hotel, Orange, NSW, Australia
Entered: 17 September 1913, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly
Died: 30 October 1961, Greenfield Road, Mount Merrion, Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 14 August 1919

Father was a Hotel keeper and died in 1909. Mother also died in 1909

Youngest of a family on nine with six boys and three girls (1 deceased)

Education was a succession of changes: Sisters of Mercy in Orange followed by the Christian Brothers, the Sisters of Charity in Concord, and then the Christian Brothers in Lewisham. In 1908 he went to St Aloysius College at Milson’s Point. After school he spent some months at Wright, Heaton & Co, Forwarding Agents in Sydney, while waiting for a position in the Sydney Harbour Trust, at which he worked until he joined the Society.

Received by Father John Ryan, Superior of the Australian Mission and sent to Tullabeg.

1913-1915: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, , Novitiate
1915-1918: Rathfarnham Castle, studying Rhetoric and UCD
1918-1919: St Aloysius Jersey Channel Islands (FRA) studying

https://humphrysfamilytree.com/ORahilly/dempsey.html

Vaughan Dempsey,
Vaughan B. Dempsey, Irish-Australian, Catholic,
born 1895, Orange, NSW, Australia, or 1894 [burial record].
He was youngest child. His parents had died by 1907, him age 12 (though he had grown-up siblings and other family).
He was educ in Ireland. B.A. and M.A. degrees at N.U.I. Jan 1922.

Irish consul to France, 1923 to at least 1928:
In Feb 1922 he was secretary to the Irish Delegation to France.
In 1923 he was appointed Head of Mission to France, listed as "the representative of Saorstat Eireann in France".
Lived Paris.
He gave an address to Irish WWI veterans and their WWI allies at grave of France's Unknown Soldier, Paris, Thur 10 July 1924. The British military were also present at this friendly event - despite the recent Anglo-Irish war. Dempsey referred to them in his speech to the Irish veterans: "Having fought, what greater ambition could you now put before yourself than to work for the ideal of peace - peace within your own shores, peace with your great neighbour, whose flag is represented today beside your own, and peace with the whole world." He paid tribute to the WWI allied fight against Germany: "Ireland .. has come .. to prove by this act of homage that she took her stand with loyalty and sacrifice by the side of the great nations in the fight for liberty and civilisation."
The speech caused controversy. In the Dail, Tue 15 July, 1924, deputy Sean Milroy, TD complains about the speech: "He was speaking for Saorstat Eireann, and so far as I know Germany has never been included in the enemies of Saorstat Eireann, and I think it is highly improper for a representative of the Saorstat to describe it in this way."

He mar 20 Mar 1926, Paris, to Doreen O'Rahilly [born 18 Sept 1904]. No issue.
Alfred O'Rahilly wrote to him, asked him to keep eye on Doreen, at school in France. He ended up marrying her.
He is listed as "Agent-General in Paris" in Irish Senate, 11 July, 1928.
"Mrs. Vaughan Dempsey" listed at funeral of Gerald Griffin 1932.
They settled back in Ireland.
He gave a speech at The Mansion House, Dublin, Friday 13th October, 1933.
They lived 38 Greenfield Rd, Mount Merrion, Co.Dublin, from 1935 until his death.
Listed at 38 Greenfield Rd in [Thom's, 1936] to [Thom's, 1958].
They both were at Nell's funeral, 1939.
He is described as "retired civil servant" in burial record.

Death, 1961:
He died at his home, 38 Greenfield Rd, Mount Merrion, 30 Oct 1961, age 66 yrs, or 67 yrs [burial record].
See death notice in Irish Times, October 31, 1961 and November 1, 1961.
Funeral 1 Nov at Mount Merrion Catholic church. He was buried in Deansgrange Cemetery, Co.Dublin.
Doreen was living 38 Greenfield Rd as at 1961.
She is gone from there by [Thom's, 1965].
She died pre-1969.

D'Souza, Mario, 1956-2017, former Jesuit scholastic and priest of the Congregation of St Basil

  • IE IJA ADMN/7/267
  • Person
  • 28 June 1956-26 September 2017

Born: 28 June 1956, Rimpa Skyline, Karachi, Pakistan
Entered: 23 September 1976, Manresa House, Dollymount, Dublin (HIB for GER S)
Ordained: 16 August 1991, Calgary, Alberta, Canada (Basilian Fathers)
Died: 26 September 2017, Anglin House, Cardinal Flahiff Basilian Centre, St Joseph Street, Toronto, ONT, Canada

Left Society of Jesus: 26 October 1982

Father was of Goan origin settled in Karachi. Father (Archibald) died not long before entry. Mother was Ophelia (Xavier) - lecturer in Persian and Ecnomics at Karachi University, and Economic advisor on Pakistan to the UN. She came from Hyderabad, India. One younger brother (Melvin). Family were friends of the Bhutto family.

Educated at St Paul’s Catholic High School, Maliz Road, Karachi and Karachi University

Baptised at St Francis, Karachi, 22/07/1956
Confirmed at St Jude’s, Karachi by Dr Geisoe OFM of Karachi, 20/01/1963

1976-1978: Manresa House, Dollymount, Novitiate
1978-1979: Clongowes Wood College SJ, studying at ST Patrick’s College Maynooth
1979-1982: John Sullivan House, Monkstown, studying Arts at UCD
Leave of Absence granted 26 October 1982

On leaving departed immediately for Calgary, Canada. There he did a Masters in Education at Calgary University. Address at that time, Pennoworth Road, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Address 2000: University of St Michael’s College, South Mary Street, Toronto, ONT, Canada

https://www.legacy.com/ca/obituaries/thestar/name/mario-d-souza-obituary?id=42130687

REV. Mario O. D'SOUZA C.S.B.

Mario D'SOUZA Obituary

Mario D'SOUZA Obituary
D'SOUZA C.S.B., REV. Mario O. Mercifully from cancer at home in Anglin House with his fellow Basilian Fathers on Tuesday, September 26, 2017. He was predeceased by his parents Archibald D'Souza and Ophelia Xavier and his only brother Melvyn. He is survived by his sister-in-law Cynthia D'Souza and her daughters Michelle and Melanie. Fr. Mario was born in Karachi, Pakistan on June 28, 1956. Shortly after immigrating to Canada, he joined the Basilian Fathers and four years later made his first profession in 1988. He then earned a PhD in the Philosophy of Education while pursuing his theological studies in Toronto. He was ordained to the Priesthood on August 16, 1991 in Calgary where his family lived. Fr. Mario taught in universities in Edmonton and Windsor but mostly at the University of St. Michael's College in the University of Toronto. He served as a member of the Basilian General Council from 2002 to 2006. Fr. D'Souza dedicated his priestly life to the scholarship of Catholic education in the Basilian tradition. His academic publications were many and distinguished but he knew their greatest value was in how they illuminated his ministry as a Teacher. Visitation will be held on Friday, September 29th from 6:30 p.m. with a wake service at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapel of the Cardinal Flahiff Basilian Center, 95 St. Joseph St., Toronto. Visitation will also be held on Saturday, September 30, 2017 at St. Basil's Church, 50 St. Joseph Street from 9:30 a.m. until a Funeral Mass there at 10:30 a.m. Interment will follow at Holy Cross Cemetery, Thornhill, ON.

https://ccsta.ca/a-tribute-to-fr-mario-dsouza/

A Tribute to Fr. Mario D’Souza

CCSTA is saddened to hear of the passing a great promoter and leader of Catholic education, Fr. Mario D’Souza.

A member of the Faculty of Theology at the University of Toronto, Fr. D’Souza made a wide and deep contribution to Catholic education, in particular to its philosophical underpinnings in contemporary culture.

Fr. D’Souza was born in Karachi, Pakistan, in 1956, and moved to Canada as a young adult. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1991, celebrating his 25th anniversary of ordination last year. He began teaching at St. Michael’s Faculty of Theology in 1991, and, other than his time at Assumption (Jan., 2005-Aug., 2006), the Faculty remained his home until his death. He held the Basilian Fathers Chair in Religion and Education, and was named a Fellow of St. Michael’s College in October of 2014. He served as Dean of the Faculty of Theology from 2009 to 2014.

He died peacefully at the Cardinal Flahiff Basilian Centre on Sept. 26 after a brief illness.

The University of St. Michael’s College paid tribute to Fr. D’Souza after his passing.

He brought to the classroom a rich academic history of his own, having received degrees from Boston College, the University of St. Michael’s College, the University of Toronto, the University of Calgary, and University College, Dublin,” the university wrote. “Loved by his colleagues, his friends, and, most importantly, his students, Fr. Mario will be deeply missed.”

Just last year, Fr. D’Souza released his latest book, A Catholic Philosophy of Education. The Church and Two Philosophers (McGill-Queen’s University Press. 2016).

The two philosophers Fr. D’Souza draws on are the neo-Thomist Jacques Maritain and the Jesuit Bernard Lonergan, while “The Church” refers to the various documents on education issued by Rome in a time range of prior to, during and following Vatican Council II.

Fr. D’Souza writes: “My interest has been to explore the universal themes and challenges of a Catholic philosophy of education: human flourishing and the subject as developing in relation to the good, as Lonergan sees it; the role of Catholic education in the heuristic discovery of the common good, as Maritain envisioned; and how the tremendous advances in working for human unity, liberation, and freedom are also beset with dangers leading to the diminishment of the student as a person, as laid out in the Church’s educational documents” (218).

Dr. Bonaventure Fagan of Newfoundland outlines how Fr. D’Souza’s book was on his Catholic education summer reading list.

“The result is a work that is bound to stir within the reader a deeper appreciation of the underlying roots and essence of Catholic education, the contemporary challenges it faces, and a holistic vision of how our youth can best serve our Creator and the diverse human community,” says Dr. Fagan. “A Catholic Philosophy of Education… gives us an insight into Fr. D’Souza’s broad contribution to Catholic education. In the classroom and in his many scholarly articles, he reflected on and argued for a more precise understanding of what constitutes Catholic education in the contemporary world. He respected those who articulated a contrary position. In Toronto and elsewhere teachers who studied with him must have marvelled at his wisdom – he pointed out how much he learned from them, for education, he said, is never a solitary exploration. In short, Mario D’Souza will be sorely missed by the university community, by the Catholic education community, and most dearly by his Basilian community.”

A funeral mass was held for Dr. D’Souza on Sept. 30, 2017.

https://stmikes.utoronto.ca/news/usmc-mourns-the-passing-of-fr-mario-dsouza-csb

USMC Mourns the Passing of Fr. Mario D’Souza, CSB

It is with great sadness but in the abiding hope of the Resurrection that we announce the death of Fr. Mario D’Souza, CSB. Fr. D’Souza, former Dean of the Faculty of Theology, former President and Vice Chancellor of Assumption University, Windsor, and a world leader in the field of religious education, died peacefully at the Cardinal Flahiff Basilian Centre on Tuesday evening, Sept. 26 after a brief illness.

Fr. D’Souza was born in Karachi, Pakistan, in 1956, and moved to Canada as a young adult. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1991, celebrating his 25th anniversary of ordination last year. He began teaching at St. Michael’s Faculty of Theology in 1991, and, other than his time at Assumption (Jan., 2005-Aug., 2006), the Faculty remained his home until his death. He held the Basilian Fathers Chair in Religion and Education, and was named a Fellow of St. Michael’s College in October of 2014. He served as Dean of the Faculty of Theology from 2009 to 2014.

He brought to the classroom a rich academic history of his own, having received degrees from Boston College, the University of St. Michael’s College, the University of Toronto, the University of Calgary, and University College, Dublin.

A passionate educator and prolific researcher, Fr. D’Souza produced many works over the course of his career, his most recent being Catholic Philosophy of Education: The Church and Two Philosophers, published in October, 2016 by McGill-Queen’s University Press.

Earlier this year, the process had begun to consider Fr. D’Souza for full professorship.

Loved by his colleagues, his friends, and, most importantly, his students, Fr. Mario will be deeply missed.

https://www.oise.utoronto.ca/alumni-friends/in-memoriam/09-26-17-fr-mario-dsouza-associate-professor

Fr. Mario D'Souza, Associate Professor

September 26, 2017
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Fr. Mario D’Souza, CSB. Fr. D’Souza, former Dean of the Faculty of Theology, former President and Vice Chancellor of Assumption University, Windsor, and a world leader in the field of religious education, died peacefully at the Cardinal Flahiff Basilian Centre on Tuesday evening, Sept. 26 after a brief illness.

Fr. D'Souza began teaching at the St. Michael’s Faculty of Theology in 1991, and, other than his time at Assumption (Jan., 2005-Aug., 2006), the Faculty remained his home until his death. He held the Basilian Fathers Chair in Religion and Education, and was named a Fellow of St. Michael’s College in October of 2014. He served as Dean of the Faculty of Theology from 2009 to 2014.

He brought to the classroom a rich academic history of his own, having received degrees from Boston College, the University of St. Michael’s College, the University of Toronto, the University of Calgary, and University College, Dublin.

Loved by his colleagues, his friends, and, most importantly, his students, Fr. Mario will be deeply missed.

Dwyer, Edward, b.1898-, former Jesuit scholastic

  • IE IJA ADMN/7/63
  • Person
  • 28 February 1898-

Born: 28 February 1898, Bouladuff, Thurles, County Tipperary
Entered: 12 October 1917, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 23 May 1921

Father was a shopkeeper and a farmer and died in 1907, and mother died in 1900.

Second eldest of three boys and there are three girls in the family.

Early education was at a local National School, and then the Christian Brothers Thurles (1909-1914) and then began studying Commerce at UCD, (1914-1917)

1917-1919: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg,, Novitiate
1919-1921: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, studying Rhetoric and Philosophy

Egan, Ivor Michael, 1927-2019, former Jesuit scholastic and priest of the Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers)

  • IE IJA ADMN/7/253
  • Person
  • 04 January, 1927-16 December 2019

Born: 04 January, 1927, Butterfield Park, Rathfarnham, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 07 September 1944, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Ordained: 02 June 1985, St Peter’s Basilica, Rome, Italy (White Fathers)
Died: 16 December 2019, Our Lady’s Hospice, Harold’s Cross, Dublin City, County Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 16 May 1950

Father, Michael C, was a Commandant in the Irish Army. Mother was Winifred (Richardson)

Only boy with three younger sisters.

Early education was at a Convent school in Dublin and then briefly one in Cork. He then went to Belvedere College SJ for almost 10 years.

Baptised at Church of Mary Immaculate Refuge of Sinners, Rathmines, 09/01/1927
Confirmed at the Pro-Cathedral, Dublin, by Dr Wall of Dublin, 01/02/1938

1944-1946: St Mary's, Emo, Novitiate
1946-1949: Rathfarnham Castle, Juniorate, UCD
1949-1950: Clongowes Wood College SJ, Regency

Became a Priest with the White Fathers

Address 2000: The Vicariate Apostolic of Southern Arabia, St Joseph’s Cathedral, Abu Dhabi, Unites Arab Emirates

Farrelly, James N, 1943-2020, former Jesuit scholastic

  • IE IJA ADMN/7/67
  • Person
  • 13 April 1943-29 May 2020

Born: 13 April 1943, Millbrook Road, Oldcastle, County Meath
Entered: 07 September 1961, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Died: 29 May 2020, Glenageary, County Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 29 June 1968

Parents were farmers. Father - Laurence, Mother - Ellen (Brown)

Eldest of three boys with three sisters.

Educated for a year at the Gilson Endowed Secondary School, Church Street, Oldcastle, he then went to St Finnian’s College, Mullingar.

Baptised at St Brigid’s, Oldcastle, County Meath, 16/04/1943
Confirmed at St Brigid’s, Oldcastle, County Meath

1961-1963: St Mary's, Emo, Novitiate
1963-1966: Rathfarnham Castle, Juniorate, UCD
1966-1968: Milltown Park, Philosophy

Address 2000 & 1991: The Kerryman, Clash Industrial Estate, Tralee, County Kerry & Independent Newspapers, Dublin City

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/tribute-to-leading-journalist-jim-farrelly/39245853.html

https://rip.ie/death-notice/jim-farrelly-dublin-glenageary-408330
The death has occurred of

Jim FARRELLY
Glenageary, Dublin / Oldcastle, Meath

FARRELLY Jim (May 29, 2020) aged 77 after a battle with cancer (Glenageary, Co. Dublin late of Oldcastle, Co. Meath. Managing Director and Editor in Chief of the Sunday Tribune before his retirement in 2004).

He is survived by his wife Joan, daughter Gemma, son Justin, daughter-in-law Megan and grandchildren Jamie, Pai-Lily and Daisy Belle. He is predeceased by his son Jamie. He is also survived by his sisters Elizabeth, Freda and brothers Michael and Gerard.

Prior to the Sunday Tribune Jim was Managing Director of the Drogheda Independent 1990-96, Managing Director of the Kerryman 1996-2000, and Managing Director of INM Provincial Newspapers 1996-2000.

He joined Independent Newspapers in 1968 where he was a reporter and columnist until 1979 when he joined the First Sunday Tribune as News Editor and Deputy Editor. In 1981 he was Editor of the short lived Daily News and in 1984 he re-joined Independent News and Media where he was Features Editor 1986-2000.

A native of Oldcastle, County Meath, he was educated at Gilson Endowed School Oldcastle, St. Finian’s College Mullingar, UCD, The Milltown Institute of Philosophy, and Kings Inns and was called to the Bar in 1977. He is author of “Who’s Who in Irish Politics – the Top 500”.

Jim will repose in Quinn’s Funeral Home, Glasthule on Bank Holiday Monday, 1st June, from 12 noon to 4pm. In accordance with current Government guidelines and in the hope of keeping our friends and family safe, Jim’s Funeral will take place privately in St. Joseph’s Church, Glasthule on Tuesday, 2nd June. We hope to have a celebration of his life at a later date.

https://www.lawsociety.ie/gazette/top-stories/2020/05-may/barrister-and-journalist-jim-farrelly-dies-aged-77

Barrister and journalist Jim Farrelly dies aged 77

Jim Farrelly, of Glenageary, Co Dublin and late of Oldcastle, Co Meath, was called to the Bar in 1977.

An old-school Independent Newspapers journalist, he was regarded as both talented and tough by admiring colleagues, who were also won over by his debonair charm.

Contacts book
His contacts book was vast and impressive, and a source of envy and awe among newsroom colleagues.

He was managing director and editor-in-chief of the Sunday Tribune before his retirement in 2004.

He is survived by his wife Joan, daughter Gemma, son Justin, daughter-in-law Megan and grandchildren Jamie, Pai-Lily and Daisy Belle.

He is predeceased by his son Jamie. He is also survived by his sisters Elizabeth, Freda and brothers Michael and Gerard.

Prior to the Sunday Tribune, Jim was managing director of the Drogheda Independent, 1990-96, The Kerryman, 1996-2000, and MD of INM provincial newspapers, 1996-2000.

Columnist
He first joined Independent Newspapers in 1968, where he worked as a reporter and columnist until 1979. He then joined the first iteration of the Sunday Tribune as news editor and deputy editor.

In 1982, he was editor of the short lived Daily News and in 1984 he re-joined Independent News and Media where he was features editor 1986-2000.

A native of Oldcastle, County Meath, he was educated at Gilson Endowed School Oldcastle, St. Finian’s College Mullingar, UCD, The Milltown Institute of Philosophy, and Kings Inns, and was called to the Bar in 1977.

He is author of Who’s Who in Irish Politics – the Top 500.

His remains will repose at Quinn’s Funeral Home, Glasthule, Co Dublin, on bank holiday Monday, 1 June from 12-4pm and his funeral will take place privately in St. Joseph’s Church, Glasthule on Tuesday 2 June.

https://www.meathchronicle.ie/2020/06/01/death-of-jim-farrelly-national-newspaper-editor-and-managing-director/
The funeral takes place tomorrow in Dublin of Oldcastle native Jim Farrelly, former managing director and editor-in-chief of the Sunday Tribune and a nationally known journalist and editor.

Jim, of Glenageary, Co Dublin, died on Friday after a long battle with cancer, aged 77.

Jim was managing director of the Drogheda Independent 1990-96, managing director of the Kerryman 1996-2000, and managing director of INM Provincial Newspapers 1996-2000.

He joined Independent Newspapers in 1968 where he was a reporter and columnist until 1979 when he joined the First Sunday Tribune as news editor and deputy editor. In 1981 he was editor of the short lived Daily News and in 1984 he re-joined Independent News and Media where he was features editor.

A native of Oldcastle, he was educated at Gilson Endowed School Oldcastle, St Finian’s College Mullingar, UCD, The Milltown Institute of Philosophy, and Kings Inns and was called to the Bar in 1977. He is author of 'Who’s Who in Irish Politics – the Top 500'.

Jim is survived by his wife Joan, daughter Gemma, son Justin, daughter in law Megan and grandchildren Jamie, Pai-Lily and Daisy Belle. He is predeceased by his son Jamie. He is also survived by his sisters Elizabeth, Freda and brothers Michael and Gerard.

In accordance with current Government guidelines and in the hope of keeping friends and family safe, Jim’s funeral will take place privately in St Joseph’s Church, Glasthule on Tuesday 2nd June, with a celebration of his life at a later date.

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/tribute-to-leading-journalist-jim-farrelly/39245853.html

https://www.lawsociety.ie/gazette/top-stories/2020/05-may/barrister-and-journalist-jim-farrelly-dies-aged-77

Barrister and journalist Jim Farrelly dies aged 77

Jim Farrelly, of Glenageary, Co Dublin and late of Oldcastle, Co Meath, was called to the Bar in 1977.

An old-school Independent Newspapers journalist, he was regarded as both talented and tough by admiring colleagues, who were also won over by his debonair charm.

Contacts book
His contacts book was vast and impressive, and a source of envy and awe among newsroom colleagues.

He was managing director and editor-in-chief of the Sunday Tribune before his retirement in 2004.

He is survived by his wife Joan, daughter Gemma, son Justin, daughter-in-law Megan and grandchildren Jamie, Pai-Lily and Daisy Belle.

He is predeceased by his son Jamie. He is also survived by his sisters Elizabeth, Freda and brothers Michael and Gerard.

Prior to the Sunday Tribune, Jim was managing director of the Drogheda Independent, 1990-96, The Kerryman, 1996-2000, and MD of INM provincial newspapers, 1996-2000.

Columnist
He first joined Independent Newspapers in 1968, where he worked as a reporter and columnist until 1979. He then joined the first iteration of the Sunday Tribune as news editor and deputy editor.

In 1982, he was editor of the short lived Daily News and in 1984 he re-joined Independent News and Media where he was features editor 1986-2000.

A native of Oldcastle, County Meath, he was educated at Gilson Endowed School Oldcastle, St. Finian’s College Mullingar, UCD, The Milltown Institute of Philosophy, and Kings Inns, and was called to the Bar in 1977.

He is author of Who’s Who in Irish Politics – the Top 500.

His remains will repose at Quinn’s Funeral Home, Glasthule, Co Dublin, on bank holiday Monday, 1 June from 12-4pm and his funeral will take place privately in St. Joseph’s Church, Glasthule on Tuesday 2 June.

https://www.meathchronicle.ie/2020/06/01/death-of-jim-farrelly-national-newspaper-editor-and-managing-director/
The funeral takes place tomorrow in Dublin of Oldcastle native Jim Farrelly, former managing director and editor-in-chief of the Sunday Tribune and a nationally known journalist and editor.

Jim, of Glenageary, Co Dublin, died on Friday after a long battle with cancer, aged 77.

Jim was managing director of the Drogheda Independent 1990-96, managing director of the Kerryman 1996-2000, and managing director of INM Provincial Newspapers 1996-2000.

He joined Independent Newspapers in 1968 where he was a reporter and columnist until 1979 when he joined the First Sunday Tribune as news editor and deputy editor. In 1981 he was editor of the short lived Daily News and in 1984 he re-joined Independent News and Media where he was features editor.

A native of Oldcastle, he was educated at Gilson Endowed School Oldcastle, St Finian’s College Mullingar, UCD, The Milltown Institute of Philosophy, and Kings Inns and was called to the Bar in 1977. He is author of 'Who’s Who in Irish Politics – the Top 500'.

Jim is survived by his wife Joan, daughter Gemma, son Justin, daughter in law Megan and grandchildren Jamie, Pai-Lily and Daisy Belle. He is predeceased by his son Jamie. He is also survived by his sisters Elizabeth, Freda and brothers Michael and Gerard.

Fullerton, Thomas J, 1889-1976, Oratorian priest and fomer Jesuit scholastic

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  • Person
  • 17 August 1889-09 March 1976

Born: 17 August 1889, Royal Marine Road, Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin.
Entered: 27 June 1914, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly
Died: 09 March 1976, The Oratory of Saint Philip Neri, Hagley Road, Birmingham, England

Left Society of Jesus: 03 April 1917

Father was a wine and spirits grocer and died in 1909.. Mother then lived at Crosthwaite Park, Dun Laoghaire.

Youngest of family and only surviving son. Father was twice married and had nine children, of whom six are living: one step-sister, four sisters (1 a novice in Notre Dame Sisters) and Thomas.

Educated privately in Dun Laoghaire, the Our Lady’s Bower, Athlone, Clongowes Wood College and UCD, where he obtained a BA in 1909. He then became a solicitor’s apprentice at Messers. O’Connell & Son, Dublin. In 1911 he became a BL, and in 1913 admitted as a solicitor in the Supremem Court in Ireland.

1914-1916: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg,Novitiate
1916-1917: Mungret College SJ, Regency

Nolan, James Brendan, 1939-2022, former Jesuit scholastic

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  • Person
  • 03 October 1939-14 January 2022

Born: 03 October 1939, Lower Clanbrassil, Street, South Circular Road, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 07 September 1957, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Died: 14 January 2022, Henley Place, Cedarhollow Boulevard, London, ONT, Canada

Left Society of Jesus: 03 December 1970

Father was a Radio Dealer.

Eldest in a family of three boys and two girls.

Educated at Synge Street until after the Intermediate Certificate. he then went to the High School of Commerce and did his Leaving cert there. He then took a job working in an office.

1957-1959: St Mary's, Emo, Novitiate
1959-1963: Rathfarnham Castle, Juniorate, UCD
1963-1966: Maison Saint-Louis, Chantilly France (GAL S) studying
1966-1967: Clongowes Wood College SJ, Regency
1967-1968: Sacred Heart College SJ, Limerick, Regency
1968-1970: Milltown Park, Theology

Address 2000 & 1991: Jamestown Road, Inchicore, Dublin City & Lambourne Avenue, Clonsilla, County Dublin

https://rip.ie/death-notice/james-brendan-nolan-dublin-468755

The death has occurred of

James (Brendan) NOLAN
Ontario, Canada and formerly, Dublin
NOLAN, James ‘Brendan’ - Born October 3, 1939 in Dublin, Ireland, Brendan Nolan passed away peacefully on Friday, January 14, 2022, at Henley Place LTC Residence in London, Ontario, Canada, in his 82nd year.

Survived by his wife Maryann Nolan; his children Anne Ravanona, Jaime Nolan Miralles, David Nolan, Michael Nolan, Sarah Nolan Miralles; first wife Rosario Miralles Sangro; siblings Eileen Nagle, Kenneth Nolan and Anne Donegan; brother-in-law Willie Donegan; grandchildren Emily and Ethan Nolan Ravanona, Aaron, Ines and Daniel O’Keefe Nolan Miralles, Sophia and Mathew Nolan, Aisling Campbell Nolan, Roxy, Billy, and Lily-Rose Nolan, Uma and Cormac Nolan Miralles DeBrun; son-in-law Stéphane Ravanona, Anne Marie Devitt, Kate Stewart; nephews and nieces; and Maryann’s daughters Laura, Beverley and families.

Predeceased by his beloved son Paul Nolan Miralles and brother Michael Nolan.

Funeral service will be conducted on Wednesday, January 19, 2022 at Westview Funeral Chapel, 709 Wonderland Road North, London, Canada at 1:00 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time - Canada) / 6pm Irish Time with visitation one-hour prior, followed by a burial at St. James’ Cemetery in Watford, Ontario, Canada. Registration will be required to attend as attendance numbers will be restricted.

https://www.westviewfuneralchapel.com/obituaries/james-brendan-nolan/#:~:text=James%20Brendan%20Nolan%20was%20born,the%20young%20age%20of%2017.

James Brendan Nolan
January 14, 2022

Peacefully passed away on Friday, January 14, 2022, at Henley Place LTC Residence in London, Ontario, Canada, in his 82nd year.

Survived by his wife Maryann Nolan; his children Anne Ravanona, Jaime Nolan Miralles, David Nolan, Michael Nolan, Sarah Nolan Miralles; first wife; siblings Eileen Nagle, Kenneth Nolan and Anne Donegan; brother-in-law Willie Donegan; grandchildren Emily and Ethan Nolan Ravanona, Aaron, Ines and Daniel O’Keefe Nolan Miralles, Sophia and Mathew Nolan, Aisling Campbell Nolan, Roxy, Billy, and Lily-Rose Nolan, Uma and Cormac Nolan Miralles DeBrun; son-in-law Stéphane Ravanona, Anne Marie Devitt, Kate Stewart; nephews and nieces; and Maryann’s daughters Laura, Beverley and families.

Predeceased by his beloved son Paul Nolan Miralles and brother Michael Nolan.

James Brendan Nolan was born in Dublin, Ireland on October 3, 1939, the first child of Ellen and James Nolan. He had 2 sisters, Eileen and Anne and 2 brothers, Michael and Kenneth. As a young man he excelled academically and entered the Jesuit order at the young age of 17.

He obtained a BSC in Mathematics and Physics at University College Dublin, Ireland followed by Bachelor degrees in Philosophy and Theology, and a diploma in higher education.

As a Jesuit, he studied in Chantilly, France, became a teacher and taught Math and Physics at the prestigious Clongowes Wood College for boys in Ireland. He spoke fluent French and Spanish, had a good understanding of German and was well travelled.

He left the Jesuit order, then married his first wife in 1971 and they enjoyed 28 years of marriage and had six children together. During that time, he worked as a training manager at Rowntree Macintosh (now Nestlé) before joining Leo Laboratories pharmaceutical company in Dublin, where he worked for many years as HR Director. He remained spiritual, took part in bible study groups in Ireland and Canada for many years. He was an expert on the Gospels, with a preference for the gospel of St. Paul.

He loved art (in particular Picasso, Markey) and music (from Bach, Schubert, Mozart and Chopin to Jacques Brel and Leonard Cohen) and enjoyed playing bridge when younger. He loved going to art exhibitions and concerts, was an avid reader and enjoyed meditation.

Later he took over part of the English Language School his first wife had set up and managed it for a few years before retiring permanently to London, Canada in 2001. He married his second wife Maryann Bach Maier in 2000 and they lived out the end of his years in London, Ontario, Canada.

Funeral Mass will be celebrated on Wednesday, January 19, 2022 at Westview Funeral Chapel, 709 Wonderland Road North, London at 1:00 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time – Canada) with visitation one-hour prior, followed by a burial at St. James’ Cemetery in Watford, Ontario, Canada. Registration will be required to attend as attendance numbers will be restricted.

O'Brien, John Joseph, 1910-1983, former Jesuit scholastic

  • IE IJA ADMN/7/180
  • Person
  • 31 January 1910-18 July 1983

Born: 31 January 1910, Suffolk Street, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 01 September 1927, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly
Died 18 July 1983, Riverside Drive, Rathfarnham, Dublin City, County Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 18 June 1935

Father, Henry Joseph owned a House Agency and Auctioneers, and later involved in the Hotel business (Jury’s & North Star). Mother was Mary Josephine (Byrne). Family resided at Claremount, Waterloo Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin

Younger of two boys (older brother being in the Society) and one sister.

Early education was at a Holy Faith Convent, and then at Synge Street. Finally he spent six years at Belvedere College SJ.

1927-1929: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Novitiate
1929-1932: Rathfarnham Castle, Juniorate, UCD
1932-1933: Vals, France (TOL) studying Philosophy
1933-1935: Belvedere College SJ, Regency

https://www.dib.ie/biography/obrien-john-joseph-jack-a6477

O'Brien, John Joseph (Jack)
Contributed by
Murphy, Angela
O'Brien, John Joseph (Jack) (1910–83), businessman, was born 31 January 1910, second son of Henry Joseph O'Brien, hotel proprietor and house agent of Waterloo Rd, Dublin, and his wife Mary Josephine (née Byrne). Educated at Belvedere College, Dublin, he took a keen interest in rugby, tennis and, in particular, public speaking. Graduating BA from UCD, he enrolled at King's Inns in 1938 and qualified as a barrister in 1941. He rose to prominence within the business community when in 1937 he became secretary of a Dublin-based employers’ organisation, the Federated Employers, which had its origins in the labour disputes of 1913. O'Brien was ‘the driving force of the organization’ (McGuire, unpublished memoir, 74). It was O'Brien who envisaged unifying employers’ bodies throughout Ireland into one national organisation, which could match the professionalism of the trade unions in the arts of industrial relations and bargaining skills. With the support of their council, O'Brien and Edward McGuire (qv), president of the Federated Employers, set about forming a national body which would be manned by a staff of full-time professionals. The result was the foundation in 1942 of the Federated Union of Employers, with O'Brien as its general secretary (later redesignated as director general in 1951); he held this position until his retirement in 1960. During this time, he led negotiations with the ITUC on unofficial disputes and wage agreements.

His international career began in 1945 when he was elected adviser to the International Labour Organisation (ILO). During 1947–60 he held the position of employers’ delegate to the ILO. Moreover, in 1954 he became the first Irishman to hold a seat on the ILO's governing body, a seat that he held for two consecutive terms. His international prestige as a renowned public speaker grew, and in 1960 he was elected president of the International Organisation of Employers and vice-chairman of the International Labour Office. In 1958 he became a director of the Shannon Estuary Co. He still maintained a pivotal role within the commercial sector after he retired. His chief business interests lay in the hotel and tourism trade, and in 1960 he became chairman of Jury's Hotels Ltd. In the same year he was elected vice-president of the Dublin chamber of commerce, and the following year he became its president.

He always maintained an association with Belvedere College; in 1935 he was made honorary secretary of Old Belvedere Rugby Club and subsequently became its president (1953–6). He was also elected president of the College Union in 1966. A very dapper man, he always ran the FUE with great style; his renditions of ‘How can you buy Killarney’ and ‘Frankie and Johnnie were lovers’ were a feature at many annual dinners. The delivery of Trinity cigarettes from Fox's to the FUE every Friday was also an example of his style. He lived most of his life at 15 Riverside Drive, Rathfarnham, Dublin, with his wife Claire, their daughter, and their four sons until his death on 18 July 1983.

Sources
Ir. Times, 8 Dec. 1959, 19 July 1983; Brian Hillery and Patrick Lynch, Ireland in the International Labour Organisation ([1969]); Ir. Independent, 19 July 1983; Belvederian Yearbook 1984; Basil Chubb (ed.), FIE: Federation of Irish Employers 1942–1992 (1992) (photo); Kenneth Ferguson, King's Inns barristers 1868–2004 (2005); E. A. McGuire, unpublished memoir (private possession)

O'Brien, Thomas P A, b 1947-2020, former Jesuit scholastic

  • IE IJA ADMN/7/181
  • Person
  • 30 March 1947-29 January 2020

Born: 30 March 1947, Williamstown House, Williamstown, Carbury, County Kildare
Entered: 07 September 1965, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Died: 29 January 2020, Sunnybrook Hospital, Bayview Avenue,Toronto ONT, Canada

Left Society of Jesus: 29 August 1978

Born in Dublin

Father (Eugene J) was a Company Director. Mother Ellen (Dempsey)

Youngest of three boys.

Educated for three years at a Preparatory school outside Naas, County Kildare, he then went to Clongowes Wood College SJ for seven years.

Confirmed at the Oratory, Kilashee by Dr Keogh of Kildare and Leighlin, 15/05/1957

1965-1967: St Mary's, Emo, Novitiate
1967-1970: Rathfarnham Castle, Juniorate, UCD (BA)
1970-1973: Milltown Park, Philosophy
1973-1975: Gonzaga College SJ, Regence
1975-1977: Regis Toronto (CAN S) studying Theology
1977-1978: College of Industrial Relations, Lecturing

Tom and his wife Christine gave a directed retreat at Manresa in 1982

Address 2000 & 1991: Ramwood Drive, Weston, Toronto, ONT, Canada

https://www.legacy.com/ca/obituaries/thestar/name/thomas-o-brien-obituary?id=40581960

THOMAS O'BRIEN Obituary
O'BRIEN, THOMAS (TOM) Thomas (Tom) O'Brien passed away surrounded by family and loved ones at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto on January 29, 2020 at age 72. Beloved son of the late Eugene and Ellen, and loving husband of Christine, Tom will be dearly missed by his children, Ellen (Paul), Michael (Vanessa), Wanda, and Patrick (Ashley); brothers, Eugene (Ingrid) and Paul (Sheila); in-laws, George, Stan (Tish) and Mara; nieces and nephews; grand-nieces and grand-nephews; best friends, Tony (Marian) and Patrick (Dianne); Irish relatives; the Senator O'Connor community; the St. John the Evangelist Parish community; and his many many friends. Born March 30, 1947, in Dublin, Ireland, Thomas was a proud child of two Irish counties; he grew up on the farm and fields of Williamstown House, Carbury, County Kildare, and on the fairways and in the supermarket in Edenderry, County Offaly, the centre of his father's business enterprises. Thomas was introduced to Ignatian spirituality during secondary school at Clongowes Wood College, after which he joined the Irish Jesuits, with whom he spent 13 years living in community, learning the practice of discernment and building the faith foundations that lasted throughout his life. A student of theology, philosophy, politics and history, Thomas obtained his undergraduate degree from University College Dublin and Master of Divinity from Regis College, University of Toronto. Although he moved on from the Society of Jesus, Ignatian spirituality never left him. He married Christine in 1981, started a family, and proudly made Canada his second home. Tom had an extraordinary ability to make a deep connection in everyday moments: from the hallways of Senator O'Connor where he taught for over 30 years, to St. John the Evangelist Parish where he sang every Sunday, to the friendships he formed co-founding North York Storm Girls Hockey League, playing at Weston Golf & Country Club, volunteering in the community and so much more. He will be greatly missed by all who knew him, for his kindness, compassion, voice (as both storyteller and musician), quick wit, intelligence and beautiful golf swing. Visitation on Sunday, February 2nd, 1:00 - 4:00 and 6:00 - 8:00 p.m., and Monday, February 3rd, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m., Ward Funeral Home (Weston), 2035 Weston Rd. Funeral Mass on Tuesday, February 4th at 10:00 a.m. at Our Lady of Lourdes Parish, 520 Sherbourne St., Toronto. Burial to follow. In lieu of flowers, please send donations to the Good Shepherd Refuge.

O'Meara, John Joseph, 1915-2003, former Jesuit scholastic

  • IE IJA ADMN/7/198
  • Person
  • 15 February 1915-12 February 2003

Born: 15 February 1915, Eyrecourt, Ballinasloe, Co Galway
Entered: 30 September 1933, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Died: 12 February 2003, County Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 15 June 1945

Parents, Patrick and Mary (Donnellan) were shopkeepers and father died in 1915.

Elder of two boys.

Early education was at a Convent school and National school both in Eyrecourt, and then he went to Rockwell College for two years, followed by three years at St Joseph’s College, Ballinasloe.

Baptised at St Brendan’s, Eyrecourt, 21/02/1919
Confirmed at St Brendan’s, Eyrecourt, by Dr Dignam of Clonfert, 11/05/1926

1933-1935: St Mary's, Emo, Novitiate
1935-1939: Rathfarnham Castle, Juniorate, UCD
1939-1941: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Philosophy
1941-1942: Clongowes Wood College S, Regency
1942-1944: Campion Hall, Oxford, England, Studying for a DPhil
1944-1945: St Ignatius Leeson St, preparing thesis for publication and assisting at University Hall.

On leaving was appointed as Assistant Lecturer in Classics at UCD. He was ultimately appointed Professor of Latin at UCD.

Address 2000 & 1991: Maple Road, Clonskeagh, Dublin City & UCD, Belfield, Dublin City

https://www.dib.ie/biography/omeara-john-a9461

O'Meara, John
Contributed by
Bradley, Bruce
O'Meara, John (1915–2003), academic, was born 18 February 1915 at Eyrecourt, Co. Galway, the elder of two sons of Patrick O'Meara, a small businessman from Ilaunmore on Lough Derg, and Mary O'Meara (née Donelan). The very early death of his father, at the end of 1915, and the troubled state of the country coloured his early years but he was to paint a warm portrait of his childhood in his gentle, elegant memoir, The singing masters (1990), written towards the end of his long life. After primary education in the local school, he was sent to Rockwell College in 1928. Planning to become a priest, he transferred to Garbally College, the minor seminary of his native diocese, Clonfert, in 1930. His academic ability and attraction to the ancient classics were quickly apparent and he remembered reading all the Odes of Horace four times during his last two years at school. During a retreat, he decided that his call was to the Society of Jesus rather than the diocese and he entered the Jesuit novitiate at Emo, Co. Laois, in October 1933. This was followed by four years at UCD, while living in Rathfarnham Castle. Here he studied Latin under Patrick Semple (1875–1954), whom he was later to succeed in the chair, and Greek under the redoubtable Michael Tierney (qv), with whom he would cross swords on several issues when his former patron had become president of the college.

A brilliant academic course led to the award of an MA and an NUI travelling studentship in 1939, but the outbreak of war encouraged his Jesuit superiors to send him first to philosophical studies in St Stanislaus College, Tullamore, Co. Offaly (known as 'Tullabeg' to the Jesuits), for two years, and then to teach in Clongowes Wood College, Co. Kildare, for a further year (1941–2). Although not over-impressed by the quality of philosophical teaching he encountered at Tullabeg, he began his first serious work on Neoplatonism there, when studying the Enneads of Plotinus, and he delighted in what he remembered as a life 'of study, good companionship and a common noble purpose' (Singing masters, 78). He retained a special affection for the Jesuits throughout his life.

In October 1942 he was finally able to embark on his studentship, which, owing to the war, he took up in Oxford rather than Berlin or Leipzig, as he might have wished. An inclination towards Platonism from his early years, stimulated by Michael Tierney's tuition, and a growing interest in the Irish ninth-century Platonising philosopher John Scottus Eriugena (qv), then largely neglected, led him to propose the topic 'Prolegomena to the Contra academicos of St Augustine' for his doctoral thesis. This was intended to allow him to explore both Augustine and Plotinus, along with Plotinus's disciple Porphyry. Partly, at least, because of the war, these were not, academically, the best of times in Oxford. Living in the Jesuit Campion Hall, he had to pursue his studies with a lack of adequate supervision and largely on his own. Later on, as professor, he tended to direct his students towards the great European centres of classical study in preference to Oxford or Cambridge. But he loved the enchantments of Oxford itself and the opportunities it afforded of being taught by the great German classicist Eduard Fraenkel and of encountering such memorable figures as Edwin Lutyens, Evelyn Waugh, a very elderly Hilaire Belloc, and the brilliant master of Campion Hall, Fr Martin D'Arcy, and his own bright, attractive personality and high intelligence enabled him to make the most of it.

From early in his years as a Jesuit student, he had struggled with issues of faith, and, as the challenge of priesthood drew nearer, the struggle became critical and the reassurance of superiors that this was a common experience no longer sufficed. In June 1945, having returned to Dublin, he decided to leave the order. For a time, gifted as he was with musical ability and a fine tenor voice, he wondered about embarking on a singing career. Meanwhile, he had begun working in the classics department at UCD and, with Michael Tierney's support, he obtained Semple's now vacant Latin chair, becoming professor at the early age of 33, in 1948. A year earlier he had married Odile de Barthès de Montfort from the Passy section of Paris, who was secretary to the French ambassador in Dublin at the time. They were to have one son, Dominique, who followed him into the classics, and two daughters, Caitríona and Odile.

The UCD appointment proved inspired and created a context in which he could exercise his wide range of abilities as teacher, scholar and administrator to the full. Handsome, urbane, witty and approachable, he quickly emerged as an excellent teacher, equally competent in dealing with Latin as language and as literature. He could adapt his teaching to the needs of the large numbers of students whose only interest in Latin was to fulfil the university requirements then in force by passing a preliminary examination in it, but his special gift was to be able to inspire and encourage those better equipped and more committed to the higher reaches of the subject.

Meanwhile, despite the demands of administering a relatively large department, his own scholarship was not neglected and he produced a steady stream of studies, editions, translations and reviews from the beginning of his tenure, which in time won him international recognition in his two chosen fields. He had been elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy in 1953 and, in time, would play a leading role in the Academy's Hiberno-Latin project. He represented Ireland on many overseas bodies, including the Fédération Internationale des Études Classiques. He was especially at home in French culture and his work with eminent French scholars duly won him inscription in the Légion d'honneur. His translations included not only Augustine's Against the academics (1950), on which he had written his doctoral thesis, and the third-century Greek Father of the Church Origen of Alexandria's On prayer and his Exhortation to martyrdom (1954), but also the Topography of Ireland (1951) of Giraldus Cambrensis (qv), and the The voyage of St Brendan (1976).

The main focus of his research always remained Augustine and Neoplatonism, but the interest he had developed in Eriugena came increasingly to the fore in later years and in 1970 he founded a society to promote Eriugena studies, in which he had long taken the lead. In Eriugena he saw a thinker who wrote in Latin but, remarkably for a ninth-century western European, knew Greek, and who had 'sought to reconcile the dominating, somewhat de-Platonised Augustinianism of the West with the Neoplatonised theology of the Greek Fathers' (Singing masters, 63). O'Meara's The young Augustine: the growth of St Augustine's mind up to his conversion (1954) became something of a classic on its subject and was later translated into French (1958) and reissued in paperback in 1980.

He took a keen interest in university politics, being elected to the UCD governing body (1956 and 1962) and to the senate of the National University of Ireland in 1962. By the time he ran unsuccessfully for the presidency of the college in 1964, following Michael Tierney's retirement, he had become a somewhat controversial figure in the eyes of some, owing to his views on such matters as the move of UCD to Belfield, which he opposed, and closer association with Trinity College, which he strongly espoused. In both instances, he was on the opposite side of the argument from Tierney. From early in his life, he had been a sceptic in relation to the revival of Irish: he was attracted to the language itself but viewed public policy in the light of what he saw as Ireland's enduring need to escape from cultural isolation. He was pragmatist enough to argue that Latin should cease to be required under university regulations, which, along with changes in the catholic church in the 1960s, had the effect of gradually reducing the hitherto large numbers in his department. Its larger impact may have been to contribute to the decline of Latin in the school curriculum, but this can hardly have been part of his purpose. He took a genuine interest in encouraging second-level teachers of classical subjects and was responsible for launching the Association of Classical Teachers in this cause. In all of these issues, his steely, combative side, not unfamiliar to his students, and his willingness to swim against the stream in the name of principle, whatever the cost to himself, was amply demonstrated.

Following retirement in 1984, he remained active in the studies to which he had devoted a significant part of his life, spending time in Princeton and other centres of excellence, as well as writing The singing masters, in which he displayed lyricism of vision and the felicity of his own style. The memoir deals only with his early life, ending with his departure from the Jesuits and marriage to Odile. There were many who regretted that no later volume followed. The year after it appeared, his colleagues produced a small Festschrift, From Augustine to Eriugena (1991), in his honour. This contains a comprehensive bibliography of his published work. He continued to keep in touch with and encourage his former students, offering friendship and advice as he had throughout his professorial career, up to the time of his death, which occurred unexpectedly in Dublin, after a minor operation, on 12 February 2003.

Sources
John O'Meara, The singing masters (1990); F. X. Martin OSA and J. A. Richmond (ed.), From Augustine to Eriugena: essays on Neoplatonism and Christianity in honor of John O'Meara (1991); personal knowledge

Forename: John
Surname: O'Meara
Gender: Male
Career: Education, Classics and Languages
Religion: Catholic
Born 18 February 1915 in Co. Galway
Died 12 February 2003 in Co. Dublin

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John J. O'Meara

John J. O'Meara (18 February 1915 – 12 February 2003) was an Irish classical scholar, historian of ancient and medieval philosophy (in particular Augustine and Eriugena), educationalist and writer.

Biography
John J. O'Meara was born in Eyrecourt (Co. Galway) to Mary Donelan and Patrick O'Meara on 18 February 1915, but lost his father when he was less than a year old. He had a younger brother, Patrick ('Paddy'). He was educated at Rockwell College and Garbally, Ballinasloe, becoming for a time a Jesuit seminarist. In his autobiographical book, The Singing Masters, O'Meara describes the hard times of his childhood, including the terror brought by the British Black and Tans, and by the subsequent Irish Civil War. He also describes his early experience of the beauty of nature, and of the difficult experience of following and at last ending his engagement as a Jesuit novice. A collection of short stories, Remembering Eyrecourt. Vignettes and Tales of earlier Days, Eyrecourt 2003, also describes the world of his childhood

O'Meara took an M.A. degree in classics at University College Dublin in 1939 and was awarded a scholarship allowing him to complete a Doctorate in Philosophy at the University of Oxford (1942–45). The Singing Masters also describes war-time Oxford and the antiquated (and quaint) conditions in which he studied there. His thesis concerned Augustine's use of Porphyry and was later revised and published in Paris (1959). Returning to Dublin he was appointed Professor of Latin at University College Dublin in 1948, where he remained until his retirement in 1984. O'Meara held visiting appointments at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Study, Dumbarton Oaks (Harvard University) and Vassar College. In Ireland he played a major role in the effort to modernize education in the schools and universities, in particular the teaching of Latin and Irish, and the collaboration between University College Dublin and Trinity College Dublin. His ideas were ahead of their time in the conservative and Church-dominated atmosphere in Ireland.

O'Meara contributed to the founding of the Irish Association of Classical Teachers in 1959. In 1954 he published The Young Augustine (with many re-editions), an introduction to reading Augustine's Confessions which has kept its value. As well as being a leading internationally recognized scholar on Augustine, he did much to further the study of the early medieval Irish philosopher John Scotus Eriugena, founding the Society for the Promotion of Eriugenian Studies in 1970 which stimulated a spectacular development in the study of Eriugena. He published a monograph on the philosopher, Eriugena (1988), and when he died he was working on finishing a complete edition and English translation of Eriugena's masterpiece, the Periphyseon. O'Meara also published English translations of Latin texts important to Ireland, Giraldus Cambrensis' Topography of Ireland and The Voyage of Saint Brendan. O'Meara was president of the Alliance Française in Ireland and was awarded the Légion d'Honneur. He was a member of the Royal Irish Academy and of other international scholarly associations. In 1947 O'Meara married Odile de Barthes de Montfort, with whom he had three children and with whom he published a little book presenting new discoveries concerning Bernadette of Lourdes (Ordeal at Lourdes).

Select bibliography
A short biography and a bibliography of John O'Meara's publications in: From Augustine to Eriugena: Essays on Neoplatonism and Christianity in Honor of John O'Meara, ed. F. X. Martin and J. A. Richmond, Washington, D. C., 1991, pages ix-xx.
The Topography of Ireland by Giraldus Cambrensis, Dundalk 1951 (also in Penguin Classics)
The Young Augustine: the growth of St. Augustine's mind up to his conversion, London, 1954
Reform in Education, Dublin 1958
Porphyry's philosophy from Oracles in St. Augustine, Paris, 1959
(with Odile de Montfort) Ordeal at Lourdes, Dublin 1959.
Charter of Christendom:the Significance of St. Augustine's city of God, New York City, 1962
The Voyage of Saint Brendan, Dublin 1976 (also Atlantic Highlands 1978).
Eriugena Periphyseon (The Division of Nature), translated by I. P. Sheldon-Williams revised by J. O'Meara, Montréal and Washington, D. C. 1987.
Eriugena, Oxford 1988.
The Singing Masters, Dublin 1990.
Studies in Augustine and Eriugena, edited by T. Halton, Washington, D. C., 1992.
Understanding Augustine, Dublin 1997

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JOHN O'MEARA: John J

JOHN O'MEARA: John J. O'Meara, who has died aged 87, was Professor of Latin at University College, Dublin, from 1948 to 1984. A prominent figure in educational circles for almost half a century, he made a remarkable contribution to the development of classical studies in Ireland.

John Joseph O'Meara was born on February 18th 1915, the eldest of the two children of Patrick O'Meara and his wife, Mary (née Donelan), of Eyrecourt, Co Galway. His father died the following year and his mother took over the running of the family business; he and his brother were reared by their aunt.

He was educated at Rockwell College, Cashel, Co Tipperary, where he was drawn to the religious life and transferred to St Joseph's, Garbally, Co Galway, to pursue his vocation.

He later decided to join the Society of Jesus and, as a Jesuit scholastic, studied at UCD for the BA (1938) and MA (1939) in classics. Having studied philosophy at St Stanislaus College, Co Offaly, he taught Latin, Greek and German at Clongowes Wood, Co Kildare. In the early 1940s he studied at Oxford University, taking a doctorate in philosophy.

But doubts about his faith had taken hold and he reluctantly decided after 11 years to leave the Jesuits. In 1945 he started as an assistant in the UCD classics department. Two years later he was appointed to the chair of Latin. His lectures were immensely popular, treating Latin, a former student recalled, "as literature and not merely as a language". He presided or spoke at many student meetings, and students and colleagues were generously entertained in his period house in Sandymount.

A long series of scholarly publications established his reputation as a classicist of the first order. His research was primarily concerned with Eriugena (Johannes Scottus), the most notable of the ninth-century Irish scholars in Europe, whose work had been long neglected. In 1970 he founded the Society for the Promotion of Eriugenian Studies, which has resulted in a wealth of studies.

He himself wrote Eriugena (1988) and translated into English the final two books of the edition of Eriugena's greatest work, Periphyseon (De Divisione Naturae), published by the Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies in 1995.

His reputation was further enhanced by his many works on St Augustine, particularly by The Young Augustine: an introduction to the Confessions of St Augustine (1980). He is known in Ireland for Gerald of Wales's The History and Topography of Ireland and St Brendan's Navigatio. A memoir of his life up to the age of 30, The Singing-Masters, was published in 1990.

He was no stranger to controversy.

He opposed the proposal to move UCD from the centre of Dublin to Belfield. He criticised national policy to revive the Irish language. He advocated that Latin should cease to be a compulsory requirement at university. And his recommendation of a partial merger between UCD and Trinity College, Dublin, was attacked in 1958 by the Archbishop of Armagh, Cardinal D'Alton. His outspokenness almost certainly cost him election to the presidency of UCD in 1964.

On the expiry of his terms of office as a member of the UCD Governing Body and as a senator of the National University, he did not seek re-appointment to either body. When compulsory Latin requirements in church and university were dropped in 1966, his student numbers dropped dramatically.

Increasingly he spent semesters and sabbatical years abroad, including periods at Dumbarton Oaks as a fellow of Harvard and at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Princeton. He built up a wide range of international contacts and his cooperation with leading French scholars was acknowledged by honours that included the Légion d'Honneur.

He played a major role in launching the Hiberno-Latin Dictionary project at the Royal Irish Academy.

His term as chairman of the National College of Art and Design coincided with significant improvements in its facilities and recognition for degree-level courses. He founded the Association of Classical Teachers to raise standards and morale among secondary teachers. Governor for Ireland of the Fondation Européenne de la Culture, he was also a director of Irish University Press.

He had a lifelong interest in music, studying the piano in his youth. He later considered pursuing a career as a singer. Later he was content to play for the entertainment of his grandchildren, "a not unjoyous or useless occupation".

He is survived by his wife, Odile de Barthès de Montfort, son Dominique, and daughters Caitriona (Brennan) and Odile (Ryan).

John O'Meara: born, 18th February; died, February 12th 2003

O'Rahilly, Alfred, 1884-1969, former Jesuit scholastic, President of University College Cork, Spiritan priest

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Born: 19 September 1884, The Square, Listowel, County Kerry
Entered: 12 November 1901, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly
Ordained: 18 December 1955, Blackrock College CSSp, Blackrock, County Dublin
Died: 01 August 1969, St Michael’s Nursing Home, Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 02 May 1914

Known when Jesuit as Alfred J Rahilly.

Father was Clerk at the Petty Sessions to three districts, flour agent, Insurance and Emigration Agent, and died February 1899.

Mother then lived at Ballybunion, County Kerry. Had four brothers and ten sisters (1 brother and sister deceased)

Educated at local Convent and St Michael’s College, Listowel and then went to Blackrock College CSSp

1901-1903: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, , Novitiate
1903-1905: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, studying
1905-1908: University College, studying
1908-1911: Stonyhurst England (ANG) studying Philosophy
1911-1913: St Ignatius, Leeson Street, teaching and research (at British Museum, London)
1913-1914: Milltown Park, studying Theology

Married Agnes in 1916 with two children. Ordained priest 18/12/1955 by Archbishop McQuaid at Blackrock College after the death of his wife and his retirement from UCC. Lived as a secular priest at Blackrock College CSSp. Created Monsignor in 1960. He was buried at Kimmage Manor in the Spiritans graveyard. In his will he left his theologial library to the Society of Jesus at Milltown Park, and his other books to Blackrock College.

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O'Rahilly, Alfred

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Murphy, John A.

O'Rahilly, Alfred (1884–1969), scholar, university president, controversialist, and priest, was born 19 September 1884 in Listowel, Co. Kerry, eighth child of Thomas Francis Rahilly and Julia Mary Rahilly (née Curry); he changed his name to ‘O'Rahilly’ by deed poll in 1920. His fourteen siblings included Celtic scholars Thomas Francis (qv) and Cecile (qv), and a first cousin was The O'Rahilly (qv), killed during the 1916 rising. Educated at St Michael's College, Listowel, Blackrock College, and UCD, he underwent a long period (1901–14) of training as a member of the Society of Jesus, but eventually left during the final stages of preparation for the priesthood, because of temperamental unsuitability. Appointed an assistant lecturer in mathematics and mathematical physics at UCC in October 1914, he became the dominant figure in the institution within six years. He became professor of mathematical physics on 1 June 1917 and registrar on 11 February 1920, and vacated these offices when he became president (1943–54).

His early career in UCC was set against the background of the revolutionary period, and he became predominantly identified, within and without the college, with the rise of post-1916 Sinn Féin. In UCC he led the nationalist interest that ousted the perceived pro-British old regime, personified by Sir Bertram Windle (qv), who resigned from the presidency in 1919. O'Rahilly was flamboyant, extrovert, disputatious and dynamic. During the low-key, unassertive presidency (1919–43) of P. J. Merriman, O'Rahilly as registrar was heir-presumptive and acted as de facto president. All in all, the whirlwind age of O'Rahilly lasted for almost four decades.

He was a volatile and bristling polymath of inexhaustible energy: the vast range of his scholarly interests – politics, sociology, finance, Christology, mathematical physics, history – aroused astonishment and envy. One critique of his work on Money ended with the reflection that the book would enable people to relieve rural tedium by laughing the winter nights away. His contemplated multi-volume life of Christ prompted a National University colleague to observe (not very originally) that a life of O'Rahilly by Christ would be much more interesting. O'Rahilly, who was vain but not stuffy, was not offended by such descriptions of him as ‘a cross between Thomas Aquinas and Jimmy O'Dea’ (qv), but was not pleased by the jibe that he had the best mind of the twelfth century, since he considered himself a very modern man indeed. But he would not have taken exception to the waggish description of the Holy Shroud of Turin (the subject of his province-wide lectures) as ‘Alfie's flying carpet’.

There were some negative and even frivolous aspects of his UCC presidency. He had a strong appetite for the hurly-burly of academic politics and, it was said, entered no controversy that he did not aggravate. He had the reputation of being a bully and exploiter in his dealings with junior academic staff; but he could be kind, helpful, and extraordinarily generous to staff and students with problems. His zeal for vigorously promoting a Roman catholic ethos in a nominally pluralist institution was frequently paternalistic and extended to acts of petty supervision, particularly perhaps over women students. This was the kind of atmosphere that prompted a visiting examiner to describe the UCC of the 1940s as ‘a convent run by a mad reverend mother’.

All this being said, O'Rahilly was one of the most vibrant and effective presidents in the history of the National University. His initiatives included extensive improvements in the library, of which he was director, and the institution of student health and restaurant services. He founded the electrical engineering department and the Cork University Press, which he believed would provide a publication outlet for the researches of his colleagues, particularly those concerned with native learning. He strengthened UCC's links with the city and the province, and these were significantly expressed through the provision of adult education courses, an area where O'Rahilly was particularly innovative and pioneering.

As a young academic, he had become caught up in the struggle for independence. He served on Cork corporation in the heroic age of Tomás Mac Curtáin (qv) and Terence MacSwiney (qv), and spent a patriotic period in jail and on the run. He represented Cork borough (1923–4) in Dáil Éireann for Cumann na nGaedheal but resigned his seat in 1924. He was a constitutional adviser to the Irish delegation at the treaty negotiations in 1921, argued publicly for the acceptance of the treaty, and helped to draft the constitution of the Irish Free State. His links with the local labour and trade-union movement were long and close, and at national level he served as Irish government chief representative in successive sessions of the International Labour Conference in Geneva. He was also a member of government commissions on banking and vocational organisation. After retirement he went to reside at Blackrock College, where he was ordained a priest (18 December 1955), and became a domestic prelate (monsignor) in 1960. O'Rahilly died 2 August 1969. He married (4 September 1916) his first cousin, Agnes O'Donoghue (d. 14 September 1953); they had two children, Ronan and Sybil.

No other layman of his day so self-confidently assumed a central role in so many areas of catholic life – philosophy, sociology, theology, scriptural studies. The controversies in which be became involved were a source of interest and pride to UCC students. Their president was a pugnacious polemicist (who jousted with such eminences as H. G. Wells and Bernard Shaw (qv)), a man of stature, and a formidable catholic intellectual. And who could not be impressed, as well as entertained, by his exuberant claim: ‘I have not now the smallest doubt that I have Einstein refuted’?

Sources
J. Anthony Gaughan, Alfred O'Rahilly (4 vols, 1986–93); John A. Murphy, The College: a history of Queen's/ University College Cork 1845–1995 (1995)

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Alfred O'Rahilly

Alfred O'Rahilly, KSG (1 October 1884 – 1 August 1969) was an academic with controversial views on both electromagnetism and religion. He briefly served in politics, as a Teachta Dála (TD) for Cork City, and was later the president of University College Cork. He also became a priest following the death of his wife.

Education and academia
Born (with the last name Rahilly) in Listowel, County Kerry, Ireland to Thomas Francis Rahilly of Ballylongford, County Kerry and Julia Mary Rahilly (née Curry) of Glin, County Limerick. He was first educated at St Michael's College, Listowel[1] and at Blackrock College in Dublin. O'Rahilly first earned University College Cork degrees in mathematical physics (BA 1907, MA 1908).

The O'Rahilly Building (left) houses UCC’s Humanities Faculty.
He studied scholastic philosophy at Stonyhurst College in Lancashire following his master's degree, then returned to UCC for a BSc (1912). In 1914, he was appointed assistant lecturer in the Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Physics at UCC, and then in 1917 he was made Professor of Mathematical Physics.

In 1919 he received a doctorate from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. He became Registrar of UCC in 1920, and held the post until 1943 when he became President of the University. O'Rahilly founded Cork University Press in 1925. He spent a year, in 1927, at Harvard studying social and political theory.

In 1938, he published a controversial book surveying electromagnetic theory called Electromagnetics (Longman, Green and Company), republished in 1956 by Dover as Electromagnetic theory, a critical examination of fundamentals.

In 1939, UCC conferred on him the degree D.Litt., and in 1940 the National University of Ireland awarded him a DSc.

The O'Rahilly Building was one of the major developments on the UCC campus in the 1990s and was named in honour of O'Rahilly.[2]

Politics and public life
After the 1916 Easter Rising, O'Rahilly publicly supported Sinn Féin and was elected to Cork City Council as a Sinn Féin and Transport Workers candidate. Arrested early in 1921 for political writings, O'Rahilly was interned in Spike Island prison.

Released in October 1921 he was constitutional adviser to the Irish Treaty Delegation. O'Rahilly supported the Anglo-Irish Treaty and in 1922 he composed a draft constitution for the Irish Free State with Darrell Figgis.

O'Rahilly led Irish delegations to the International Labour Organization conferences in 1924, 1925 and 1932, and took on a conciliatory role in trade union and employers disputes in Munster. As President of University College Cork, he initiated workers' education courses in the university in the late 1940s which proved popular with Cork trade unionists.[citation needed]

Standing as a candidate in Cork Borough for Cumann na nGaedheal, he was elected to the 4th Dáil at the 1923 general election.[3] He resigned in 1924,[4] causing a by-election later that year which was won by the Cumann na nGaedheal candidate Michael Egan.

Religion
A deeply religious Catholic from early life, O'Rahilly was a member of the Society of Jesus but left before ordination and was dispensed from his vows. He maintained his (sometimes controversial) religious views throughout his life, and became a priest, and then Monsignor, in later years following the death of his wife. He wrote a biography of Willie Doyle. He also contributed to The Irish Catholic weekly newspaper.

In 1954, Pope Pius XII conferred on him the Pontifical Order of Saint Gregory the Great.

He was also an advisor on university education to the Archbishop of Dublin John Charles McQuaid and sat on an informal committee from 1950. The committee included O'Rahilly, and the other presidents of the National University of Ireland; Michael Tierney of UCD, Monsignor Pádraig de Brún, Cardinal D'Alton, and Bishops Cornelius Lucey of Cork and Michael Browne of Galway.

Science
In O'Rahilly's major survey of electromagnetic theory, Electromagnetics (1938),[5] he opposed Maxwell's dominant (British) theory of the electromagnetic field and followed the French Catholic physicist, historian of science, and philosopher of science Pierre Duhem in rejecting Maxwell's field account.[6] As a logical consequence of his rejection of Maxwell, O'Rahilly also rejected Albert Einstein's theory of relativity. O'Rahilly embraced Ritz's ballistic theory of light and Ritz's electrodynamics.[7] While Ritz's theory reduces to Coulomb's Law and Ampere's Law, since its derivation is phenomenological, it differs from the Liénard–Wiechert potential. O'Rahilly also wrote against applying the theory of evolution to human society.

Because O'Rahilly thought Cork lacked a social science curriculum he volunteered to teach courses in economics and sociology. When told that they could not spare him from the physics courses, he volunteered to teach an economics course and sociology course along with his physics courses.

Family
His brother T. F. O'Rahilly was a Celtic languages scholar and academic, noted for his contribution to the fields of historical linguistics and Irish dialects.[8] His sister Cecile O'Rahilly was also a Celtic scholar, and published editions of both recensions of the Táin Bó Cúailnge and worked with her brother in the School of Celtic Studies at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.[9]

His first cousin The O'Rahilly was one of the founding members of the Irish Volunteers and died in the Easter Rising.[10]

Writings
O'Rahilly's writings include: Father William Doyle, S.J. (1920, 4th ed. 1930), Flour, Wheat and Tariffs (1928), Money (1941), Jewish Burial: The Burial of Christ (1941), Religion and Science (1948), Aquinas versus Marx (1948), Moral Principles (1948), Social Principles (1948), The Family at Bethany (1949), Moral and Social Principles (1955), Gospel Meditations (1958) and Electromagnetic Theory (2 vols, 1965).

Father William Doyle S.J. (1922)
Electromagnetics: A Discussion of Fundamentals (1938)
References
J. Anthony Gaughan, Alfred O'Rahilly Biography (Kingdom Books, 1986) (ISBN 0-9506015-6-X)
"O' Rahilly Building Extension and Quadrangle". University College Cork. Archived from the original on 6 June 2014. Retrieved 10 October 2020.
"Alfred O'Rahilly". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 20 May 2012.
"Alfred O'Rahilly". Oireachtas Members Database. Retrieved 20 May 2012.
Worldcat entry for "Electromagnetic theory, a critical examination of fundamentals" - First edition published in 1938 under title: "Electromagnetics"
See Pierre Duhem: Against "Cartesian Method": Metaphysics and Models from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy for why Duhem rejected Maxwell's theory.
For a short description of O'Rahilly's criticism of the special theory of relativity, see this section of Challenging Modern Physics by Al Kelly
Murphy, John A. "O'Rahilly, Alfred". Dictionary of Irish Biography. Retrieved 19 June 2022.
Ní Mhunghaile, Lesa. "O'Rahilly (Ní Rathaille, Ó Rathaille), Cecile (Sisile)". Dictionary of Irish Biography. (ed.) James McGuire, James Quinn. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Breathnach, Diarmuid; Ní Mhurchú, Máire. "Ó RATHGHAILLE, Micheál Seosamh (1875–1916)". Ainm. Retrieved 27 December 2020.

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Alfred O'Rahilly

Alfred O’Rahilly MA DPhil DSc KSG, President, University College Cork, 1943-54

Alfred O’Rahilly, was born in September 1884[1] in Listowel, Co. Kerry, the son of Thomas F. Rahilly, clerk of petty sessions, and his wife Julia M. Curry. He changed his surname by deed poll in 1920 to ‘O’Rahilly’.[2] He was educated at St Michael’s College, Listowel, and at Blackrock College, Dublin.[3] O’Rahilly was awarded a BA (1907), MA in Mathematical and Experimental Physics (1908) by the Royal University of Ireland. He then entered Stonyhurst College, Lancashire, England, where he is an resident at the time of the 1911 census. At Stonyhurst, he studied at St Mary’s Hall, where he attended a three-year course in scholastic philosophy in the Jesuit novitiate for which he was awarded the papal degree of DPhil.[4] O’Rahilly then gained a BSc (1912) at University College, Dublin. In 1914 he was appointed assistant lecturer in the Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Physics at UCC, and made full Professor of Mathematical Physics in June 1917. He became Registrar of the college in February 1920, and held the post until 1943 when he became President. He spent a year, in 1927, at Harvard University studying social and political theory. On his return, he persuaded the Governing Body to establish a lectureship in sociology, which he took on without salary.[5] The National University of Ireland conferred on him the honorary degree DLitt in 1939 and, in the following year, his work on Electromagnetics obtained for him the degree DSc.

After the 1916 Easter Rising, O’Rahilly publicly supported Sinn Féin and was elected to Cork City Council as a Sinn Féin and Transport Workers candidate. Arrested early in 1921 for his political writings, O’Rahilly was interned in Spike Island prison in Cork harbour. Released in October 1921 he was constitutional adviser to the Irish Treaty Delegation. O’Rahilly supported the Anglo-Irish Treaty and in 1922 he composed a draft constitution for the Irish Free State. O’Rahilly led Irish delegations to the International Labour Organization conferences in 1924, 1925 and 1932, and took on conciliatory role in trade union and employers disputes in Munster. Standing as a candidate in Cork Borough for Cumann na nGaedheal, he was elected to the 4th Dail at the 1923 general election but did not go for re-election in 1924.[6] As representative of the Irish Government, he attended the Sixteenth Session of the International Labour Conference at Geneva in 1932.[7] He was a member of the Banking Commission and, from 1923, Chairman of the Cork Arbitration Board, where he was prominent in the settlement of industrial disputes. In this latter role he was active in securing compensation for the loss of employment suffered by the workers of the Cork Electric Tramways and Lighting Company, for which work some of the tramway men of the city presented him with 'The Tramway Cup' in 1933.

O’Rahilly had a dominant personality and was a prolific scholar, polymath, controversialist and public figure. His UCC initiatives included improvements in his role as Director of the Library, the institution of student health and restaurant services, and the acquisition of the extensive former County Gaol site which made significant building expansion possible. Other innovations included the foundation of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Cork University Press in 1925 (which he handed over to the College in 1928)[8] and UCC’s second in-house magazine, Cork University Record, in 1944. O’Rahilly strengthened College links with the city and the province, particularly in adult education courses. He instituted a diploma in Social Science, the first diplomate was Seán Casey who was later a TD for Cork city and Lord Mayor.[9] He published prolifically, often on issues relating to religion and politics.

Alfred O’Rahilly married Agnes O’Donoghue on 4 September 1916 at Rathmines, Dublin. They had two children. She died on 14 September 1953.[10] He retired from the presidency of UCC in October 1954 and moved to Blackrock College (Holy Ghost Fathers), Dublin, where he was ordained as a member of the order on 18 December 1955, aged 71. He remained at Blackrock, becoming a monsignor in 1960. O’Rahilly died at St Michael’s nursing home, Dún Laoghaire, on 2 August 1969. He is buried in the community cemetery in the grounds of Kimmage Manor, headquarters of the Holy Ghost Fathers.[11] O’Rahilly left his theological library to the Jesuits at Milltown Park; in 2019 the Milltown Park library was transferred to Dublin City University;[12] his other books were given to Blackrock College.

In 1998 the new Business and Languages building, named the Alfred O’Rahilly Building, was opened by Micheál Martin, Minister for Education (a UCC graduate).[13] O’Rahilly’s tenure as Director of the Library is remembered in the relief created by Séamus Murphy RHA that is on display in the Boole Library.

Quinn, Michael Patrick, 1930-2013, former Jesuit scholastic

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  • Person
  • 08 March 1930-25 October 2019

Born: 08 March 1930, Ballina, County Mayo
Entered: 07 September 1948, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Died: 25 October 2019, Ivy Lodge, Main Street, Saugerties, NY, USA

Left Society of Jesus: 16 April 1953

Father, Michael Patrick, was a commercial traveller and business man. Mother was Anne (Daly). Family lived at Emmet Square, Birr, County Offaly.

Elder of two boys with two half brothers and three sisters. Father married twice. Half brother was a priest in France.

Early education was first at a Convent school in Birr, and then at the Presentation Brothers school also in Birr for eleven years. Finally at Mungret College SJ

Baptised at St Muredach's Cathedral, Ballina, 11/03/1930
Confirmed at St Brendan’s, Birr by Dr Fogarty of Killaloe, 12/04/1942

1948-1950: St Mary's, Emo, , Novitiate
1950-1953: Rathfarnham Castle, Juniorate, UCD

Address 2000: Brendenwood Road, Rockford, IL, USA

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/recordonline/name/michael-quinn-obituary?id=14532405

Michael Quinn Obituary
Michael P. Quinn
March 8, 1930 - October 25, 2019
New Paltz, NY
Michael P. Quinn, 89 of New Paltz, passed away peacefully on Friday, October 25, 2019 at Ivy Lodge in Saugerties, NY. Born March 8, 1930 in Ballina, Mayo County, Ireland, he was the son of the late Michael and Anne (Daly) Quinn.
On August 13, 1956, in Cloghan, in the county of Offaly in Ireland, he married Teresa McCabe. They had 54 years together before her passing on October 3, 2009.
Michael earned his Bachelor of Art Degree from the University of Dublin and earned his Master's Degree at Loyola University in Maryland. He taught English Literature and Poetry at Rock Valley College in Rockford, IL, from 1965 until his retirement in 1997 and was chair of the English Department. Michael was a devoted parishioner of St. Joseph's Church in New Paltz.
In addition to his parents and wife, he was predeceased by his son, Paul Quinn.
He is survived by one daughter, Marian Quinn and her husband, Tommy Weir of Dublin, Ireland, and three sons: Declan Quinn and his wife, Edda, Aidan Quinn and his wife, Elizabeth and Robert Quinn; his grandchildren: Jack, Liam, Mae, Stella, Sarah, Alice, Rae, Ava, and Mia.
Visitation will be held from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Monday, October 28, 2019 at Copeland-Hammerl Funeral Home, 162 South Putt Corners Road, New Paltz, NY. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated after the visitation, at St. Joseph's Church, 34 South Chestnut Street, New Paltz, NY, and beginning at 1 p.m. The Rite of Committal will follow at St. Charles Cemetery, Routes 44/55, Gardiner, NY.

Stapleton, Francis, 1962-2019, former Jesuit scholastic

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  • Person
  • 18 March 1962-18 August 2019

Born: 18 March 1962, Churchtown, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 25 September 1980, Manresa House, Dollymount, Dublin
Died: 18 August 2019, Galway Cheshire Homes, Merlin Park Lane, Curraghagrean, Galway City, County Galway (Roscahill, County Galway)

Left Society of Jesus: 1986

Address 2000 & 1991: The Manse, Hollymount, Claremorris, County Mayo & Lower Churchtown Road, Churchtown, Dublin City, County Dublin

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/frank-stapleton-obituary-pioneering-irish-film-maker-1.4002362

Frank Stapleton
Born: March 18th, 1962
Died: August 18th, 2019

Frank Stapleton, prolific writer and talented film director has died following a long illness. Stapleton was a leading light in Irish filmmaking in the 1980s and 1990s before his career was cut short by the onset of multiple sclerosis.

The Whole World in His Hands, an award winning documentary filmed 10 years after Pope John Paul II’s visit to Ireland in 1979, Dr Brown Also Spoke, a polemic documentary with Dr Noel Browne (Minister for Health from 1948-1951) and Michael D Higgins and The Fifth Province (1997) were his best known films.

The Fifth Province which was about a frustrated writer living the rain-soaked Midlands, won Best First Feature at the Galway Film Fleadh and the Audience Prize at the Fantasporto Film Festival in Porto, Portugal. Stapleton worked with Michael D Higgins on a number of film proposals and his film crew made a documentary with Higgins at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro called, 12 Days to Save the World.

Frank Stapleton grew up in Churchtown, Dublin with one older and one younger brother. He attended Belvedere College, Dublin from the age of eight to eighteen where his friends included Fintan Connolly who also went on to become a filmmaker. Reminiscing about their school days, Connolly said that Frank had a strong interest in photography and social justice and was “fizzing with ideas”.

With fellow Belvedere students, Stapleton and Connolly pushed a bed from Dublin to Cork and later the same year, a telephone box from Knock to Cork to raise money for Concern. They made their first documentary, No School is an Island while still at Belvedere College.

After school, Stapleton joined the Society of Jesus and lived in Manresa House, Clontarf where he completed his 2 year novitiate. He then moved to a Jesuit residence in Monkstown in 1982 while studying English and Philosophy at University College Dublin. In 1984, he made his first film, A Second of June, a drama documentary inspired by Ulysses about a day in the life of two ordinary Dubliners when Ronald Regan visited Ireland. After graduating from UCD in 1985, Frank lived for a time in one of the Ballymun Towers while working on social projects with Peter McVerry and other members of the Jesuit community.

To broaden his horizons, he moved to London. Around this time, he also left the Jesuits and immersed himself instead in contemporary film and the psychoanalysis of R D Laing. In 1989, he founded Ocean Films with producer, Catherine Tiernan and over the following decade, they made many documentaries and dramas together.

“Frank had an uninhibited imagination, huge energy and motivation to bring his ideas to the screen and to make dreams a reality,” says Tiernan. “In the beginning, we went abroad to seek commissions as RTÉ had not yet opened up to independent production. There was no TV3 or TG4 and the Irish Film Board had yet to be re-activated. The Whole World In His Hands - which was funded by Channel 4 - was among the first Irish independent documentaries to be screened on RTÉ.”

In 1999, Stapleton married Katharine West and the couple bought a Presbyterian manse and church in Hollymount, County Mayo with the intention of restoring it to provide them both with living and working accommodation. However, a year later, Stapleton was diagnosed with hydrocephalus and then in 2001, with multiple sclerosis which quickly limited his ability to write and direct films. Their daughter, Alice Mimosa was born in 2002 and for a number of years, Frank was a wonderful home-based father to her while Katharine, a ceramic artist, lectured at the Galway Mayo Institute of Technology.

In 2004, the family moved to Roscahill, County Galway where they had great support from the local community. With Galway based poet, Mary Dempsey as his scribe, Stapleton completed an MA in Film Studies at the Huston Film School at the National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG) in 2006. In 2008, his condition had deteriorated to the extent that he needed to move to supported accommodation in the Cheshire Home in Galway, returning home at weekends and during the holidays.

In 2012, the Galway Film Fleadh showed five of Stapleton’s films in a retrospective of his work. In the catalogue for the festival, Tony Tracy, from the Huston School of Film at NUIG, wrote that Stapleton was part of a vanguard of Irish film directors who attempted to launch a career in the 1980s. “Like others from that period, his work was defined by daring and determination, balanced between an ambition to create a personal cinema and the need to make a living.” Tracy said that Stapleton had a commitment to exploring the condition of Irishness that is imaginative, engaged and wide-ranging. His six-part series, Irish Dreamtime (2000) explored concepts of Irish heritage at the turn of the millennium.

In a tribute piece, the Irish Film Institute archivist, Sunniva O’Flynn said that much of Stapleton’s work was “distinguished by a delightful air of whimsy tethered to a foundation of deep erudition. He was a man of endless intellect, kindness, compassion and fun who bore his long illness with great fortitude and dignity.”

Frank Stapleton is survived by his wife Katharine, daughter Alice Mimosa, his mother Catherine, brothers John and Colum.

https://ifi.ie/frank-stapleton-a-tribute/
The staff and board of IFI have learnt with great sadness of the passing of film director Frank Stapleton.

Frank was an enormously talented writer, director and producer, a leading light of the Irish filmmaking world in the 1980s and 1990s before his career was cut short by the onset of multiple sclerosis. He established Ocean Films with producer and great friend Catherine Tiernan and together they made a series of memorable documentaries. Frank directed Irish Dreamtime, a series about Irish identity and heritage; Dr Browne also Spoke, a biographical film about Noel Browne; and The Whole World in his Hands, a film about Pope John Paul II’s visit to Ireland in 1979.

His Poorhouse was, for many years, one of very few dramas set during the famine. A Second of June a Ulyssean meander through Dublin on the day of Ronald Reagan’s visit was a documentary/drama hybrid which perfectly captured the texture of 1980s Dublin. Frank’s surrealist feature The Fifth Province about a frustrated writer living in the rain-soaked midlands was a fitting vehicle for his colourful story-telling and his wry sense of humour. His work was the subject of a retrospective at the Galway Film Fleadh in 2012.

Much of Frank’s work was distinguished by a delightful air of whimsy tethered to a foundation of deep erudition. He was a man of endless intellect, kindness, compassion and fun who bore his long illness with great fortitude and dignity.

We extend our deepest condolences to Frank’s family and many friends.

https://ifi.ie/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Frank-Stapleton-by-Tony-Tracy.pdf
Tony Tracy
from Flynn & Tracy, Historical Dictionary of Irish Cinema, 2nd Ed. (Rowan and Littlefield, 2019)

STAPLETON, FRANK (1962–). It is easy to forget just how difficult it was for the first wave of Irish directors who attempted to launch a career in the 1980s. Frank Stapleton was part of that vanguard. Like others from the period, his work is defined by daring and determination: balanced between an ambition to create a personal cinema and the need to make a living. At first glance, his oeuvre seems characterized by an eclecticism of topics and formats, but on closer consideration, continuities can be traced through a portfolio of creative documentaries, TV drama, short-film and feature film output, and a TV documentary series. Across these works, we encounter an intellect that is both limpid and ludic, a visual sense that is ambitious and original, and a commitment to exploring the condition of Irishness that is imaginative, engaged, and wide ranging.

A native of Churchtown in Dublin’s southern suburbs, he attended the distinguished Belvedere College, where, like the impressionable James Joyce before him, he came under the spell of the Jesuitical mind-set. However, unlike Stephen Daedalus, he did not initially choose an artistic vocation over a priestly calling and spent several years studying within the Society of Jesus. While still appending an “SJ” to his director credit, Frank commenced a career in film, directing the subversive and inventive A Second of June (1984), a contemporary drama-documentary inspired by Ulysses focusing on a day in the life of two ordinary Dubliners against the backdrop of Ronald Reagan’s 1984 visit to Ireland. Two years later, Frank finally uttered “non servium” and left the Jesuits. After a few years in London (where he developed an interest in R. D. Laing’s psychoanalytical techniques), he returned to Dublin and formed Ocean Films with producer Catherine Tiernan in 1989.

The absence at that point of either a film board or state funding structures for independently produced television saw Ocean Films apply for funding wherever it could. Its first success was a prestigious but controversial com- mission—The Whole World in His Hands—a documentary about what Ire- land had become in the 10 years since the visit of Pope John Paul II made for U.K.broadcaster Channel 4. Several similarly polemic documentaries fol- lowed, including two with Noel Browne (Requiem for a Civilisation [1991] and Dr. Browne Also Spoke [1992]) and two in collaboration with Michael D. Higgins just before he became Ireland’s first minister for arts, culture, and the Gaeltacht.

Moving away from documentary and able to secure funding from Radio Telefís Éireann, Frank directed the short film Poorhouse (1996), an evoca- tive adaptation of a Michael Harding story setduring the Famine that featured strong central performances and memorable visuals. Its success paved the way for what proved to be the creative high point of Frank’s career as a filmmaker, The Fifth Province (1997), an artfully realized, unclassifiable feature from a script that Frank cowrote with the late Pat Sheeran and Nina Witoszek (aka Nina FitzPatrick). Attracted by its startling originality, it was British Screen (Simon Perry) that first offered funding to the project, with the Irish Film Board subsequently contributing to its production. Evocative- ly shot by celebrated French
cinematographer Bruno de Keyzer (who contributed a European sensibility to the film’s quirky tone), the film is set in the Irish Midlands and is a worthy cinematic successor to the surrealistic perspective of that liminal zone inaugurated by Flann O’Brien. Once again, it offered an alternative view of Ireland and its culture, challenging official or sanctioned narratives (notably in an amusing but pointed scene about what makes a successful Irish screenplay), and centers on a maverick and dreamer in the figure of Timmy Sugrue (Brian F. O’Byrne).

The Fifth Province was well received at film festivals (winning Best First Feature at the Galway Film Fleadh [Festival] and the Audience Prize at the Fantasporto Festival) but didn’t manage to find a distributor outside of the United Kingdom and Ireland, perhaps because it was not perceived as “Irish” enough. In its aftermath, Frank worked on a range of documentary series before the onset of multiple sclerosis prematurely ended his career. These included Irish Dreamtime (2000), an ambitious six-part series exploring con- cepts of Irish heritage at the turn of the millennium. Each, in different ways, continued the work of his fiction and nonfiction films in seeking to interrogate and articulate the distinctive qualities of the Irish condition at a specific moment in time with a bias
toward the marginal, the excluded, and the unorthodox.

Tucker, William John, 1888-, former Jesuit scholastic

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  • Person
  • 18 October 1888-

Born: 18 October 1888, St Patrick’s Quay, Cork City, County Cork
Entered: 16 January 1909, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 08 October 1919 (from Milltown Park, for health reasons)

Father was a Master Mariner and was lost at sea shortly after William’s birth. Mother lives at “Tuckerville”, Copley Place, Cork City.

Younger of two boys.

Educated at PBC Cork and then St Colman’s Fermoy then after illness returned to PBC and then went to UCD.

1909-1911: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, , Novitiate
1911-1913: Stonyhurst England (ANG) studying Philosophy
1913-1914: Xavier College, Melbourne, Australia, Regency
1914-1916: St Ignatius College Riverview, Sydney, Australia, Regency
1916-1917: St Aloysius College SJ, Sydney, Australia, Regency
1917-1919: St Joseph’s College, Philadelphia in MARNEB Province - for health reasons
1919: Milltown Park