Rev James Corboy SJ

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Rev

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James

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Corboy

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SJ

Date of Birth:

14-Mar-1880

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Grange, Co Limerick

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Ireland

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Date of Death:

27-Jun-1922

Place of Death:

Dublin

Country of Death:

Ireland

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Biographical Notes

Fr David Strong SJ, The Australian dictionary of Jesuit biography 1848-2015, Second Edition, 2017:
Corboy, James

Teacher; born Grange, Co Limerick, 14 March 1880; died Dublin, 27 June 1922, aged 42.

James Corboy entered the Society at Tullamore, 14 August 1896, completed his juniorate there, and studied philosophy at Vals and Gemert, 1900-03. He was sent to Australia and St Aloysius' College, 1903-04, and Riverview, 1905-1910, where he was also involved with senior rowing and was first prefect and senior debating master for a time.

In 1910 Corboy returned to Ireland to study theology at Milltown Park and Innsbruck, and competed tertianship at Tullamore soon after. Then he went to Mungret where he was rector, 1917-20, to Galway, 1920-21 and to Clongowes College, 1921-22.

(Reproduced by permission of Fr David Strong SJ.)