Born: 18 October 1888, St Patrick’s Quay, Cork City, County Cork
Entered: 16 January 1909, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 08 October 1919 (from Milltown Park, for health reasons)

Father was a Master Mariner and was lost at sea shortly after William’s birth. Mother lives at “Tuckerville”, Copley Place, Cork City.

Younger of two boys.

Educated at PBC Cork and then St Colman’s Fermoy then after illness returned to PBC and then went to UCD.

1909-1911: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, , Novitiate
1911-1913: Stonyhurst England (ANG) studying Philosophy
1913-1914: Xavier College, Melbourne, Australia, Regency
1914-1916: St Ignatius College Riverview, Sydney, Australia, Regency
1916-1917: St Aloysius College SJ, Sydney, Australia, Regency
1917-1919: St Joseph’s College, Philadelphia in MARNEB Province - for health reasons
1919: Milltown Park

Born: 23 February 1906, Main Street, Doneraile, County Cork
Entered: 06 September 1923, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 30 July 1929 (from Heythrop - Philosophy)

Parents were shopkeepers and father died in 1917.

Eldest of three boys with five sisters.

Early education was for a year at a Convent school, and then five at the Christian Brothers in Doneraile. He then went to St Colman’s in Fermoy

1923-1925: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Novitiate
1925-1927: Rathfarnham Castle, Juniorate
1927-1929: Heythrop, Oxfordshire (ANG) studying Philosophy

LEFT from Heythrop (Philosophy)