Thomas A. Finlay, Dictionary of National Biography… (1912)
“ The Royal University of Ireland had been established in 1879, and on its foundation the buildings of the Catholic University became merely a college in which the Dublin fellows of the new university lectured, and students were prepared for its degrees. ”
Thomas A. Finlay, Dictionary of National Biography… (1912)
“ The capacity for sustained work which distinguished him through life carried him with such success through his college course that at its close in 1857, when only twenty-three years old, he was appointed professor of theology at Maynooth. ”
Thomas A. Finlay, Dictionary of National Biography… (1912)
“ In 1873 he was appointed provincial of the Jesuit body in England. At the beginning of his term of office the question of opening a Jesuit school in Manchester involved him in a controversy with the bishop of Salford, Herbert (afterwards Cardinal) Vaughan [q. v. Suppl. II] (see Snead-Cox's Life of Cardinal Vaughan, vol. i. chap. xii.) . Despite episcopal opposition the Jesuits persisted in opening their school, and Vaughan then appealed to the Pope. The issue was decided in Rome in June 1875, when the Jesuit school in Manchester was closed by order of the Holy See. ”
