Born: 27 August 1910, Maryborough (Portlaoise), County Laois
Entered: 14 September 1929, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 30 May 1938 (from Clongowes Wood College SJ - Regency)

Father was a Civil Servant and family lived at Prison Avenue, North Circular Road, Dublin.

Third of five boys (3 deceased) and he has three sisters (one deceased)

Early education at Christian Brothers Portlaoise, and then at the Christian Brothers Kilkenny he then went to O’Connell’s School Dublin

1929-1931: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Novitiate
1932-1935: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Philosophy
1935-1938: Clongoiwes Wood College SJ, regency