Rev James Kirwan SJ
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Rev
First Name:
James
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Kirwan
Order:
SJ
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Co Cork
Country of Birth:
Ireland
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Place of Death:
Adelaide SA
Country of Death:
Australia
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Place of Burial:
West Terrace, Adelaide SA
Country of Burial:
Australia
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Biographical Notes
Fr David Strong SJ, The Australian dictionary of Jesuit biography 1848-2015, Second Edition, 2017:
Kirwan, James
Teacher, pastor; born Cork, Ireland, 26 November 1871; died Adelaide, 16 May 1950, aged 78.
James Kirwan entered the Society at Tullamore, 17 April 1890, and after his juniorate at Milltown Park, studied philosophy at Enghien, Champagne province, 1893-96, taught at Belvedere College, the Crescent, Limerick, and Clongowes, 1896-1903. Theology followed at Milltown Park, 1903-07, with tertianship following. He taught at Galway, and Mungret, 1908-10,
He was sent to Australia where he taught at Xavier College, 1910-11 and 1915-17; and St Aloysius' College, Milson's Point, 1914, and 1918-20. Parish ministry was at Richmond, 1911-13; Norwood; 1920-21 and 1925-27 and 1939-50; Sevenhill, 1921-25 and 1927-28; Richmond, 1928-31 and Hawthorn 1931-39. He certainly resided in many houses of the province.
He was reputed to be a good worker, but not always an easy man to live with. He was not a good minister because he was too fussy and domineering. He even gave a brother an order under holy obedience to tell his fault for taking some sugar from the refectory.
(Reproduced by permission of Fr David Strong SJ.)