Record ID:
63540004 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
Heading:
Birth:
  • 18510215
  • Cavan (Ireland : County)
Death:
  • 19291021
  • Dublin (Ireland)
Associated with:
  • Ireland
Occupations:
  • Priests 1881 -
  • Theologians Teachers
Notes:
  • Divine faith, 1917 title page (Father Peter Finlay)
  • National Library of Ireland in VIAF 22 April 2018 (Finlay, Peter, 1851-1929; also separate records (Finlay, Peter, Rev.; Finlay, Peter)) https://viaf.org/viaf/315622685
  • Cavan County Libraries website, viewed 22 April 2018 Local Studies > People & Folklore (Fr Peter Finlay S.J. Peter Finlay was born at Bessbrook, Bakers Bridge, Co Cavan on 15 February 1851. He is brother of Fr Thomas A Finlay S.J. Peter entered Jesuit College Milltown Park on 18 March 1866. After a two year novitiate there he studied in France, England (Stonyhurst) and Germany before becoming a teacher at Crescent College Limerick (1872-1874) and at Clongowes Wood (1874-1878). In 1878 he began the study of theology in France and completed it in Spain (Tortosa) where he was ordained in 1881. From 1881 to 1885 he taught philosophy at Milltown Park, and in North Wales from 1885 to 1887. He was rector of Milltown College from 1905 to 1910. He lectured in Catholic theology from 1912 until 1922 in University College Dublin and he was noted for his clarity and exact Latin, which was the medium of the time. He gave his last lecture in Milltown Park on 2 October 1929 and died in St Vincent�̐ưs Hospital [Dublin] on 21 October 1929.) http://www.cavanlibrary.ie/Default.aspx?StructureID_str=78
Local system number:
  • (AuPaJTL)167135
Cataloguing source:
  • VJTL eng rda