Born: 23 August 1923, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 07 September 1942, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 01 April 1943

Father was a shopkeeper and family lived at Aughrim, County Galway.

Younger of two boys with two sisters.

Early education was for two years at a National School in Aughrim and then at St Joseph’s College Ballinasloe (Garbally).