Born: 18 July 1902, Galway City, County Galway
Entered: 31 August 1920, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 03 August 1932 (from Milltown Park Dublin, studying theology)

Mother died in 1910. Father died in 1912

Educated Mercy Convent Galway and then at the Presentation Sisters school. After his mother died he went to the Christian Brothers in Galway.. Then his father died and his Uncle, Rev SJ Nestor of the Galway diocese was made his guardian (Ennistymon, County Clare). He sent him with his two younger brothers to the Sisters of the Sacred Heart in Banagher. After two years there he was sent to Blackrock College for one year and then to Mungret College SJ in 1915.

1920-1922: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Novitiate
1922-1923: Montée de Fourvière, Lyon France (LUGD) studying
1923-1924: Rathfarnham Castle, Juniorate
1924-1927: Milltown Park, Philosophy
1927-1931: St Ignatius College Riverview, Sydney - Regency
1931-1932: Milltown Park, Theology