Born: 12 December 1899, Green View Terrace, Tralee, County Kerry
Entered: 18 September 1918, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 20 November 1926

Parents lived at Ballyard House, Tralee, County Kerry.

Third eldest of five boys and he has three sisters.

Early education at a local Convent School and then at the Spa National School, County Kerry. He then went to the Christian Brothers in Tralee, and after that to Clongowes Wood College SJ.

1918-1920: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Novitiate
1920-1921: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Rhetoric
1921-1924: Milltown Park, Philosophy
1924-1926: Xavier College, Melbourne, Regency