Born: 01 March 1911, Mountshannon Road, Kilmainham, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 01 September 1928, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 19 June 1931 (from Rathfarnham Castle)

Father was a Secondary School teacher living with his mother at Mountshannon Road, Kilmainham Dublin.

Eldest of four boys with two sisters.

Early education at Model School in Marlborough Street and then at CBS Synge Street, though this was interrupted twice for a year at the Marist Fathers College in Dundalk.

1928-1930: St Stanislaus College Tullabeg, Novitiate
First Vows at St Mary’s, Emo
1930-1931: Rathfarnham Castle, Juniorate