Born: 04 January, 1927, Butterfield Park, Rathfarnham, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 07 September 1944, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Ordained: 02 June 1985, St Peter’s Basilica, Rome, Italy (White Fathers)
Died: 16 December 2019, Our Lady’s Hospice, Harold’s Cross, Dublin City, County Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 16 May 1950

Father, Michael C, was a Commandant in the Irish Army. Mother was Winifred (Richardson)

Only boy with three younger sisters.

Early education was at a Convent school in Dublin and then briefly one in Cork. He then went to Belvedere College SJ for almost 10 years.

Baptised at Church of Mary Immaculate Refuge of Sinners, Rathmines, 09/01/1927
Confirmed at the Pro-Cathedral, Dublin, by Dr Wall of Dublin, 01/02/1938

1944-1946: St Mary's, Emo, Novitiate
1946-1949: Rathfarnham Castle, Juniorate, UCD
1949-1950: Clongowes Wood College SJ, Regency

Became a Priest with the White Fathers

Address 2000: The Vicariate Apostolic of Southern Arabia, St Joseph’s Cathedral, Abu Dhabi, Unites Arab Emirates

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