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

  • IE IJA ADMN/7/63
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  • 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