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Born: 11 December 1819, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 29 September 1837, Drongen, Belgium - Belgicae Province (BELG)
Ordained: 02 June 1849, Maynooth College, County Kildare
Final Vows: 02 February 1860
Died: 18 July 1878, Bray, County Wickow
Part of the St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin community at the time of death
by 1851 at St Beuno’s studying Theol 4
by 1865 at Lowe House St Helen’s Lancashire (ANG)
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His early education was at Tullabeg and Clongowes.
After First Vows he was sent to Tullabeg first and then Clongowes for Regency. he also studied part of his Theology at Clongowes, and was Ordained in Maynooth by Dr Murray 02 June 1849. He was a man of superior talent and he was appointed head of the Galway College and built the Church and residence there. He also spent some time on the English Mission. Returning to Ireland, he was sent as Operarius at Gardiner St, and remained there until his death 18 July 1878. He actually died in Bray, where he had gone for a change of air. His sermons were admired by all as perfect compositions. A very large number of priests, Secular and religious attended his office at Gardiner St.
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Pamphlet by Fr Thomas Halpin SJ entitled "Principles of Plane and Spherical Trigonometry Adapted to the Class of Rhetoric in Clongowes Wood College SJ", published by James McGlashen, 50 Upper Sackville Street, Dublin, 1854 and printed at the University Press, by M. H. Gill. It is not ascribed on the pamphlet itself, but there is a note in pencil by Fr Edmund Hogan SJ ascribing this pamphlet to Fr Thomas Halpin SJ
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