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)