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- 4 July 1940 - 3 June 1991 (Creation)
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50 items
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Born: 01 July 1918, Drumcondra Park, Drumcondra, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 07 September 1940, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Ordained: 31 July 1953, Milltown Park, Dublin
Final Vows: 02 February 1981, Sacred Heart Church SJ, Limerick
Died: 03 June 1991, Mater Hospital, Dublin
Part of the Belvedere College SJ, Great Denmark Street, Dublin community at the time of death
Father was an Insurance official.
Only boy with three sisters.
Early education was at a private school and then at St Pat’s BNS, Drumcondra. In 1932 he went to O’Connells School for three years. He then went to a commercial college, and in 1936 was employed by the New Ireland Assurance Company in Dublin until 1940. During this time he also attended night classes and matriculated in 1940.
◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Insurance clerk before entry
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File containing Jack Smyth's admission papers and brief correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials concerning work at St Francis Xavier’s Church, Upper Gardiner Street, the Church of the Sacred Heart, the Crescent, Limerick and as Assistant Director of the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association.
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- County Dublin » Dublin City » Upper Gardiner Street » St Francis Xavier's Church (Roman Catholic)
- County Limerick » Limerick City » The Crescent » Sacred Heart Church (Roman Catholic), Limerick
- County Dublin » Dublin City » Drumcondra
- County Dublin » Dublin City » Sandford Road » Milltown Park
- County Dublin » Dublin City » Great Denmark Street » Belvedere College SJ
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- Smyth, Jack, 1918-1991, Jesuit priest (Subject)
- Pioneer Total Abstinence Association, 1898- (Subject)
- Kieran, Laurence J, 1881-1945, Jesuit priest (Subject)
- McGarry, Cecil, 1929-2009, Jesuit priest (Subject)
- Dargan, Joseph, 1933-2014, Jesuit priest (Subject)
- Harnett, Philip, 1943-1996, Jesuit priest (Subject)
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2004