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About Help Contact login Rev Oliver Daly SJ Title: Rev First Name: Oliver Middle Names: Preferred Name: Surname: Daly Order: SJ Date of Birth: 02-Jul-1845 Place of Birth: Ahascragh, Co Galway Country of Birth: Ireland Date of Ordination: Place of Ordination: Country of Ordination: Ordination Diocese: Seminary: Date of Death: 11-Jan-1916 Place of Death: Galway Country of Death: Ireland Date of Burial: Place of Burial: Country of Burial: Ireland Find A Grave URL: FindaGrave - Person Photo FindaGrave - Grave Photo Biographical Notes Fr T.J. Linane, From Abel to Zundolovich, Vol. 2: Biographies of Priests on the Australian Scene up to 1900, 1980, p 125: Daly, Oliver, SJ, Irish Builder in Melbourne and North Sydney The name of this priest whose stay in Australia ranged for 20—30 years should have a prominent place in the annals of the Jesuit Order. As stated before it's presumed that he was a brother of Hubert SJ. He was born in County Galway on 2 July 1845 and studied for his life's work at Clongoweswood, Dublin, and at other Jesuit Houses in England and on the continent. He arrived in Victoria on the 'Santiago' from London in December 1877 and served at the Jesuit Houses in Hawthorn, Richmond, and St. Patrick's College, East Melbourne. The credit is assigned of building the Presbytery at Hawthorn in the 1880s, and of completing the sanctuary and other additions at St. Ignatius' Church, Richmond, in March 1894. A posting took him to the North Sydney parish of St. Mary's, continuing with building activities that had commenced under Jesuit charge in the early 1880s. The Catholic Directory of 1902 indicates that he was stationed at Loyola, Greenwich at this period, and as his name is missing in 1903 it can be presumed that at this stage the builder had been posted home to Ireland. He died in Galway on 11 January 1916 at the age of 70. (Footprints, Vol. 3, No. 6) Information: Fr. Henry Johnston SJ, Author of 'A Seed That Grew' (A History of the North Sydney Parish). --- Fr David Strong SJ, The Australian dictionary of Jesuit biography 1848-2015, Second Edition, 2017: Daly, Oliver Teacher, pastor; born Daly's Grove, Ahascragh, Galway, Ireland, 2 July 1845; died Galway, 11 January 1916, aged 70. Oliver Daly was educated at the Crescent, Limerick, 1858-9, and was the first of four brothers to join the Society. He entered as a novice in Rome, 27 April 1861, and after his juniorate taught rudiments, French, writing and arithmetic at the Crescent, Limerick, 1864-8. Philosophy studies were undertaken at the Collegium Lacense (Maria Laach), 1868-71, and theology at Innsbruck, 1871-75. Tertianship followed, 1876-77. He arrived in Melbourne on 12 December 1877 and was sent to Xavier College, 1878-80, one of the first staff at the college. From 1880-81, he was minister and prefect of studies at St Patrick's College, directed the Sodality, and did pastoral work. He went to St Kilda House, Sydney, 1881-82, as minister and teacher, and spent a few years in the parish of Richmond. He was appointed the first superior and parish priest of Hawthorn, 1883-86. He became involved in rural missionary work, 1886-89, and became superior and parish priest of North Sydney, 1890-93. He held a similar position in the Richmond parish, 1893-97. Subsequently, he was in the parish of North Sydney and at Loyola College, Greenwich, each for a few years before his return to Ireland on 18 December 1902. When he returned, he worked in Glasgow, Milltown Park, and finally in Galway as a rural missionary. (Reproduced by permission of Fr David Strong SJ.)

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Oliver

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Daly

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02-Jul-1845

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Ahascragh, Co Galway

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11-Jan-1916

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Galway

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Ireland

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Fr T.J. Linane, From Abel to Zundolovich, Vol. 2: Biographies of Priests on the Australian Scene up to 1900, 1980, p 125:

Daly, Oliver, SJ, Irish
Builder in Melbourne and North Sydney
The name of this priest whose stay in Australia ranged for 20—30 years should have a prominent place in the annals of the Jesuit Order. As stated before it's presumed that he was a brother of Hubert SJ. He was born in County Galway on 2 July 1845 and studied for his life's work at Clongoweswood, Dublin, and at other Jesuit Houses in England and on the continent. He arrived in Victoria on the 'Santiago' from London in December 1877 and served at the Jesuit Houses in Hawthorn, Richmond, and St. Patrick's College, East Melbourne. The credit is assigned of building the Presbytery at Hawthorn in the 1880s, and of completing the sanctuary and other additions at St. Ignatius' Church, Richmond, in March 1894. A posting took him to the North Sydney parish of St. Mary's, continuing with building activities that had commenced under Jesuit charge in the early 1880s.

The Catholic Directory of 1902 indicates that he was stationed at Loyola, Greenwich at this period, and as his name is missing in 1903 it can be presumed that at this stage the builder had been posted home to Ireland. He died in Galway on 11 January 1916 at the age of 70.
(Footprints, Vol. 3, No. 6)
Information: Fr. Henry Johnston SJ, Author of 'A Seed That Grew' (A History of the North Sydney Parish).

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

Teacher, pastor; born Daly's Grove, Ahascragh, Galway, Ireland, 2 July 1845; died Galway, 11 January 1916, aged 70.

Oliver Daly was educated at the Crescent, Limerick, 1858-9, and was the first of four brothers to join the Society. He entered as a novice in Rome, 27 April 1861, and after his juniorate taught rudiments, French, writing and arithmetic at the Crescent, Limerick, 1864-8. Philosophy studies were undertaken at the Collegium Lacense (Maria Laach), 1868-71, and theology at Innsbruck, 1871-75. Tertianship followed, 1876-77.

He arrived in Melbourne on 12 December 1877 and was sent to Xavier College, 1878-80, one of the first staff at the college. From 1880-81, he was minister and prefect of studies at St Patrick's College, directed the Sodality, and did pastoral work.

He went to St Kilda House, Sydney, 1881-82, as minister and teacher, and spent a few years in the parish of Richmond. He was appointed the first superior and parish priest of Hawthorn, 1883-86.

He became involved in rural missionary work, 1886-89, and became superior and parish priest of North Sydney, 1890-93. He held a similar position in the Richmond parish, 1893-97. Subsequently, he was in the parish of North Sydney and at Loyola College, Greenwich, each for a few years before his return to Ireland on 18 December 1902. When he returned, he worked in Glasgow, Milltown Park, and finally in Galway as a rural missionary.

(Reproduced by permission of Fr David Strong SJ.)

Rev Oliver Daly SJ

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