Born: 25 December 1899, Bride Street, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 20 November 1916, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 10 August 1929 (from Heythrop - Theology - Ordination was postponed)

Father was an employee of Duffy & Sons, Westmoreland Street, Dublin, publishers, and died in 1908. Mother was then supported by eldest sister who is a National Teacher.

Fourth eldest of a family of six (4 boys and 2 girls of whom 2 boys and 1 girl are deceased

Early education was at a local National School and at 7 years of age went to Synge Street). When his father died he was sent to the O’Brien Institute, Grace Park Road, Marino, Dublin (1909-1916).

1916-1918: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Novitiate
1918-1920: Rathfarnham Castle, Juniorate
1920-1923: Clongowes Wood College SJ, Regency
1923-1926: Milltown Park, Philosophy
1926-1929: Heythrop, Oxfordshire (ANG) studying Theology

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)

Born: 06 June 1896, Connaught Terrace, Garville Avenue, Rathgar, Dublin
Entered: 09 October 1914, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 08 August 1929 (from Heythrop College, England)

Parents lived by private means and lived at Whitechurch House, Rathfarnham.

Eldest of three sons, and his two brothers were novices in the Society. Older brother of Edward Hughes - LEFT 1918 as scholastic and George - RIP 1930 as scholastic

At 10 years of age he went to St Mary’s College, Rathmines

1914-1916: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Novitiate
1916-1919: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Juniorate
1919-1923: Regency at St Aloysius College, Sydney
1923-1925: San Ignacio, Sarriá, Barcelona, Spain (ARA) studying Philosophy
1925-1926: Clongowes Wood College SJ, looking after health
1926-1929: Heythrop, Oxfordshire (ANG) studying Theology

Born: 14 November 1901, Ardbarra, Magazine Road, Cork, County Cork
Entered: 29 September 1925, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 15 February 1932 (from Belvedere College SJ, during Regency)

In the year of his birth his parents took over a drapery business in Washington Street, Cork City.

Fourth of six boys with two sisters.

Early Education at a local Convent school he went to Christian Brothers College Cork City. After school he went to work for Cork County Council, and then moved to the Ministry of Finance, Merrion Street, Dublin

1925-1927: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Novitiate
1927-1928: Rathfarnham Castle, Juniorate
1928-1931: Heythrop College, Oxfordshire (ANG) studying Philosophy
1931-1932: Belvedere College, Regency

RIP by 1991

Born: 02 October 1939, Rathdown Park, Terenure, Dublin, County Dublin
Entered: 07 September 1957, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Died: 15 April 2024, Youghal & District Nursing Home, Burgess, County Cork (Duke’s Mill, Tallow, County Waterford)

Left Society of Jesus: 10 June 1966 from Campion Hall, Oxford, England

Father Patrick was an engineer in CIE, Mother Catherine (Sullivan)

One younger sister.

Baptised Robert Garrett Barden 07/10/1939
Confirmed from Rathgar Avenue by Dr McQuain at the Pro-Cathedral 07/03/1950

Educated at Belvedere College SJ for ten years.

1957-1959: St Mary’s Emo, Novitiate
1959-1962: Rathfarnham Castle, Juniorate
1962-1964 at Saint-Albert, Louvain, Belgium (BEL M) studying
1964 at Heythrop Oxford (ANG) studying philosophy
1966 at Campion Hall Oxford (ANG) studying Anthropology

Married to a sister of Brendan Kirby, living in Cobh with two children and lecturing in Philosophy at UCC. After leaving he studied Anthropology at Oxford, and then with his wife lived in Australia for two years.

Address in 2000: Belgrave Avenue, Cork City, County Cork & Department of Physics, UCC

Address 2005: Duke’s Mill, Tallow, County Waterford