File 209 - Departure file for Brendan Peakin

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IE IJA ADMN/7/209

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Departure file for Brendan Peakin

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  • 1933-1945 (Creation)

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19 items

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(23 February 1915-2001)

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Born: 23 February 1915, Parnell Street, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 07 September 1933, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Died: 2001, Harare, Zimbabwe

Left Society of Jesus: 05 October 1945

Father, Philip, was a butcher in Parnell Street and he died in 1919. Mother was Mary (McGee). Family resided at Belvedere Avenue, North Circular Road Dublin. Mother resided after father’s death at Parnell Street, Dublin, supported by the butcher’s shop which was managed by the eldest brother.

Third of six boys.

Educated at a preparatory school and O’Connells school and then he went to Mungret College SJ

Baptised at St Agatha’s North William Street, 26/02/1915
Conformed at St Agatha’s North William Street by Dr Byrne of Dublin, 15/02/1927

1933-1935: St Mary's, Emo, , Novitiate
1935-1938: Rathfarnham Castle, Juniorate, UCD
1938-1941: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Philosophy
1941-1943: Mungret College SJ, Regency
1943-1944: Clongowes Wood College SJ, Regency
1944-1945: Milltown Park, Theology

Reported (1973) to be married and living in Yorkshire

Address 2000: Ridgeway South, Harare, Zimbabwe

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Material on Brendan Peakin, who departed the Society of Jesus, as a scholastic.

Born: 23 February 1915
Entered: 7 September 1933
Left Society of Jesus: 5 October 1945

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The Irish Jesuit Archives are open only to bona fide researchers. Access by advance appointment. Further details: [email protected]

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No material may be reproduced without the written permission of the Archivist. Copyright restrictions apply. Photocopying is not available. Digital photography is at the discretion of the Archivist.

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2024

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