Item 1 - Biographical information on Fr Patrick Bracken SJ

Born: 23 January 1831, Clonmel, Cobh, County Cork
Entered: 29 November 1847, Abbaye Saint-Acheul, Chaussée Jules Ferry, Amiens, Hauts de France, France - Franciae Province (FRA)
Ordained: 1855
Final Vows: 15 August 1866
Died: 26 November 1917, St Ignatius, Lower Leeson Street, Dublin

1847-1849: Abbaye Saint-Acheul, Chaussée Jules Ferry, Amiens, Hauts de France, France (FRA), Novitiate
1849-1852: Brugelette College, Brugelette, Belgium (FRA), Philosophy
1852-1854: La Maison de Saint-Michel, Laval, Pays de Loire, France (FRA), Theology
1854-1856: St Beuno’s, St Asaph, Wales (ANG), Theology
1856-1858: St Stanislaus College SJ, Tullabeg, County Offaly, Teaching
1858-1859: Clongowes Wood College SJ, Naas, County Kildare, Teaching
1859-1864: Sacred Heart College SJ, Crescent, Limerick, Minister, Teaching
1864-1865: Church of Saint Eusebius 'all'Esquilino', Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II, Rome, Italy (ROM), Tertianship
1865-1866: Milltown Park, Sandford Road, Dublin, awaiting assignment
1866-1869: Clongowes Wood College SJ, Naas, County Kildare, Teaching
1869-1872: St Francis Xavier, Gardiner Street, Dublin, Curate
1872-1884: Milltown Park, Sandford Road, Dublin, Spiritual Exerecises, Writer, Hospital Chaplain
1883-1884: University College, St Stephen’s Green, Dublin, Teaching
1884-1885: Sacred Heart College SJ, Crescent, Limerick, Teaching
1885-1886: Clongowes Wood College SJ, Naas, County Kildare, Teacher, Writer
1886-1889: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly, Writer
1889-1909: University College, St Stephen’s Green, Dublin, Teaching
1909-1917: St Ignatius, Leeson Street, Dublin, Writer, Confessor

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DOB 1831 Queenstown; Ent 19/11/1847; FV August 1866; RIP 26/11/1917 Leeson St

“Educated at UCD; D Litt 1897; Fellow and Examiner RUI; Professor of Irish and History at UCD; RIA Council, Todd Professor of Celtic Languages, Sec for Foreign Correspondence; Governor of the High School of Irish Learning; Brehon Law Commissioner for the publication of the ancient laws and institutes of Ireland; Has written more twenty or thirty works .......” - Catholic Who’s Who and Year Book”, 1915.

On his death, the following notice was published :
Father Hogan, who passed away peacefully after an illness which, up to the last, had not impaired his mental powers, was the last link with the pioneer days of O’Donovan, O’Curry and Zeuss. He was born in Clonmel, close to Queenstown 23/01/1831. Entering the Jesuit Noviceship at St Acheul at the age of sixteen, he was Ordained nine years later, and spent long and active years in labouring, now i the pulpit and confessional, now in the classroom. he was one of the founders of the Sacred Heart College, Limerick, in 1859, remaining there until 1865.

A subsequent year in Rome contributed largely to the definite trend of Father Hogan’s mind and interests towards the study of Irish antiquities. The Irish and other archives in the Eternal City started him unpos a field of enquiry where he was to prove himself a singularly diligent and competent toiler. In spite of many difficulties, including the failure of his eyesight, he pursued studies along various lines of Irish linguistics, history and archaeology, and commenced in 1880 the publication of a series of works, many of which, at least will survive as imperishable monuments of energetic and well-directed scholarship.

The list of over twenty numbers would be too long to print here - we may mention as types, the “Documenta de Sto Patricio’, the “Battle of Ros-na-Righ” and other volumes in the Todd Lecture Series. “Ibernia Ignatiana”, “Distinguished Irishmen of the 16th Century” and the great “Onomasticom Goedelicum (completed in his 77th year) - a work bearing witness to his powers of laborious and minute research.

From 1888-1908 Father Hogan filled the Chair of Irish Language and History at UCD. He was a useful and active member of the RIA, and a Commissioner for the publication of the Brehon Laws.

His many fine personal qualities, no less than his eminent merits as a scholar, gained him the esteem of a circle extending even beyond the shores of the country, for which he laboured so untiringly and unselfishly, and will cause his departure, even at the ripe old age of eighty-seven, to be sincerely mourned.”

Note from Joseph O’Malley Entry
He made his Noviceship in France with William Kelly, and then remained there for studies with Eugene Browne and Edmund Hogan

◆ Royal Irish Academy : Dictionary of Irish Biography, Cambridge University Press online :
Hogan, Edmund Ignatius
by Eoghan Ó Raghallaigh

Hogan, Edmund Ignatius (1831–1917), priest, Irish-language scholar, and historian, was born 23 January 1831 at Belvelly, near Cobh, Co. Cork, youngest son of William Hogan, craftsman, and Mary Hogan (née Morris). Though the older members of the family were native speakers of Irish, he was brought up through English. He entered the Jesuit Order at 16, beginning his noviciate in the Jesuits' French province on 29 November 1847. He stayed there until 1854, when, having completed his first two years of theology, he transferred to St Beuno's College, Flintshire, Wales, where he was ordained on 23 September 1855, completing his fourth year of theology the following year. He took his final vows in 1866.

On his return to Ireland he began teaching at Tullabeg House, King's Co. (Offaly) (1857–8), and was transferred the following year to Clongowes Wood College, Co. Kildare. He was one of the founders in 1859 of Sacred Heart College, The Crescent, Limerick, where he stayed until 1865. That year he travelled to Rome, where he researched Irish Jesuit history. This resulted in Ibernia Ignatiana (1880). From 1873 to 1877 he was attached to the Catholic University, teaching moral theology. He served as priest and teacher in various Irish Jesuit colleges, although his teaching duties gradually decreased as he devoted himself more to scholarship. He began teaching in UCD in the 1880s and served as professor of Irish language and history there until the dissolution of the Royal University of Ireland in 1909. He was appointed examiner in Celtic by the RUI in 1888 and subsequently served as fellow in Celtic/Irish until 1909. He received a D.Litt. honoris causa from the RUI in 1897. In the RIA, to which he was elected in 1890, he was Todd professor of Celtic languages (1891–8), a member of the council (1899–1904, 1905–9), and secretary for foreign correspondence (1907–9). In addition, he was appointed a commissioner in 1894 for the publication of the ancient laws of Ireland and was a governor of the School of Irish Learning from its foundation in Dublin in 1903.

His impressive literary output in Latin, Irish, and English began in 1866 with Limerick, its history and antiquities. Other publications include Cath Ruis na Ríg for Bóinn (1892), Distinguished Irishmen of the sixteenth century (1894), History of the Irish wolf dog (1897), and A handbook of Irish idioms (1898). He spent ten years preparing his greatest, and as yet unsurpassed, work, Onomasticon Goedelicum (1910), a reference book on names of places and tribes found in Gaelic manuscripts. After its publication his sight and general health began to deteriorate and he lived a life of semi-retirement.

He died 26 November 1917 at the Jesuit House, Lower Leeson St., Dublin, and was buried in Glasnevin cemetery. Papers relating to him are housed at the Jesuit Archives, 35 Lower Leeson St., Dublin.

Royal University of Ireland Calendar, 1888–1909; Douglas Hyde, ‘A great Irish scholar’, Studies, vi (1917), 663–8; John MacErlean, ‘A bibliography of Dr Hogan, S.J.’, Studies, vi (1917), 668–71; IBL, ix (1918), 64; The Society of Jesus, A page of history: story of University College Dublin 1883–1909 (1930); Michael Tierney (ed.), Struggle with fortune (1954), 33; William Hogan, ‘Rev. Edmund Hogan S.J.: an eminent Great Island scholar’, Cork Hist. Soc. Jn., lxx (1965), 63–5; Beathaisnéis, i, iv, v

◆ James B Stephenson SJ Menologies 1973

Father Edmund Hogan 1831-1916
“At a ripe old age, loved and admired by a large circle of friends and honoured by scholars in many countries, there passed away from us the Rev Edmund Hogan SJ D Litt”. These are the opening words of an article on Edmund Hogan by the late Dr Douglas Hyde, in Studies 1917.

Edmund Hogan was born on 23rd January 1831 near the Cobh of Cork. He became a Jesuit at the age of sixteen and was ordained nine years later. He was one of the founders of the Sacred Heart College Limerick, and remained there from 1859-1865. From there he proceeded to Rome where he ransacked the Archives, and he gathered a vast amount of information relating to the history of the Society and of the Irish Church.

The fruit of his labours may be seen from a brief list of his works :
“Ibernia Ignatiana”, “Onomastican”, “Goedelicum”, a life of “Father Henry Fitzsimon SJ”, “Distinguished irishmen of the 16th Century”, “Outlines of Grammar of Old Irish”, “The Bollandists Life of St Patrick”, “Chronolofical List of the Irish Jesuits 1550-1814.
His net was wise. His studies include :
“History of the Irish Wolf-dog”, “Irish and Scottishe names of Herbs, Plants, Trees, etc”, “Physical Characteristics of the Irish People”.

He was Professor of Irish Language and Hostory at University College Dublin, a member of the Royal Irish Academy, Governor of the High School of Irish Learning, and one of the Brehon Law Commissioners for the publication of the ancient laws and institutes of Ireland.

“He had a fine presence, his head was handsome, his forehead broad, his eyes kindly, and his manner always courteous and affable. With all his great learning, he was charmingly simple, and he delighted in anecdotes about people he had met and known”.

He died at Leeson Street on November 26th 1916. It was of him that Fr Henry Brown made a famous remark at recreation after his funeral “Well, I’m sure Fr Hogan will take what is coming to him like a man”.

◆ The Clongownian, 1918

Obituary
Father Edmund Hogan SJ
By Richard Ingham (Giving incidentally a glimpse of Clongowes in the Sixties)
My recollection of Father Edmund Hogan goes back to the year 1865-6, when he came to Clongowes to teach a class of philosophy. consisting of four students, James Galavan of Waterford, James Doyle of Wexford, Myles McSwiney of Dublin, and Stephen Boisson a Frenchman. These were high and mighty gentlemen, from the schoolboy's point of view, not mixing with the ordinary students and seldom seen by them except at a distance in Chapel, where they occupied one of the Community tribunes.

The professor of philosophy, then a fairly tall man, dark haired, and with an alert soldierly carriage, and a most genial and prepossessing appearance, we admired from a distance, but we had no acquaintance with him. In the next year, 1867-8, Father Hogan taught the class of 1st of Grammar, of which I was a member. Feeling deeply the loss of Father Stanley Mathews, of the family of Mount Hanover, Drogheda, one of the most fascinating men I ever met, always in college and in after life the best and truest of friends, the welcome extended to Father Hogan was, I fear, not warm.

After a little, his kindly, genial temperament won our regard and respect, and we pulled along evenly and well.

In those days the relation of master and pupils was intimate and very personal. In nearly all the subjects of their course the master was their sole teacher, and he was their guide, philosopher, and friend, and from the affection born in the classroom of times grew a strong, loving friendship, a help and stay to the pupil in all the joys and sorrows of his after life. Thank God, I have precious memories, alas, only memories, of many.

The present system in our colleges, I fear, is not calculated to foster such old world sentiments.

Long ago it was the custom for the master to bring his boys out to walk on playdays and half holidays, if they so wished, but the boys had to go to the castle and ask him.

Father Hogan was ever a great student, and in my days under him, all his spare time, and indeed all his waking thoughts, were devoted, we boys understood, to the preparation of a grammar, I daresay a Gaelic one, that was to throw into the shade all grammars hitherto in use. We sometimes found it difficult to catch our hare when he was wanted for a run, but when once caught, he gave us good sport, and was the most amiable and best of leaders. On one occasion we went to Maynooth, and after seeing the College, had a grand lunch of beefsteaks and pies in the hotel, over which Father Hogan presided, and we toasted the President in ginger beer.

It must have been trying to a man of his habits and tastes to have to run about the country roads with a pack of raw lads who took not the slightest interest in the studies or pursuits he most cared for. Never once, during the whole time he was our master, did I see Father Hogan show the least touch of annoyance, or shall I call it low spirits, on those occasions.

In 1868-9 Father Hogan was again our master in the class of poetry, of which Stephen Brown, now the Crown Solicitor of Kildare, was easily and worthily the Imperator primus. In this year our class acquired musical celebrity. Every day at the end of the after noon class our master, closing his desk, stood up and said, “Now, boys, a little French pronunciation”, and all standing, some in tune and some far from it, sang two verses of a hymn to our Blessed Lady, called “Reine des Cieux”. Never before, nor I suppose since, has choral music waked the corridors of Clongowes during class hours.

Father Hogan was singularly painstaking and patient in his efforts for our improvement, and always anxious that his class should make a decent appearance on all public occasions. As instances of the trouble he gave himself in these matters, I may mention the following. Twice he distinguished me, to my great annoyance, by selecting me to read the essay written by him at the academical exercises in July, 1868, and again as the reciter of the English poem in July, 1869. Curiously, the latter, called “A War Mirage on the Rhine”, was a vivid picture of the war that broke out the following year, 1870. Day after day alterations were made in that poem, until my small stock of patience being exhausted, I bluntly said I would learn no more new lines. My ill-temper was met with a genial smile, but the verses still grew. To practise' me in the required strength of pronunciation, I was brought to the big field beyond the pleasure ground, where, standing at one end and Father Hogan at the other, my success or failure depended, without regard to wind or distance, on Father Hogan's hearing me distinctly. I used to have a rough throat after these performances. To all of us, notwithstanding our shortcomings, Father Hogan was ever cheerful, kind, and singularly amiable, and at the end of the two years his class parted from him with the most kindly feelings, which lasted with the survivors to his death.

These thoughts were in my mind as I prayed beside the coffin, and looked upon the face of my dear old master for the last time. I seemed to hear again the voice coming to me across the big field, “Speak louder, I can't hear you”, or again calling on his class of Poetry to sing their evening hymn.

Richard Ingham

-oOo-

For Father Hogan's subsequent career as Irish historian, archæologist, and linguist, we must refer our readers to a sketch of him which appeared in “Studies” of last December under the heading “A Great Irish Scholar”. It is from the pen of Dr Douglas Hyde, joint founder and first president of the Gaelic League, and is a worthy tribute to his work, It is followed by a list of no fewer than thirty-eight publications by Father Hogan, Included in this list, which fittingly ends with his masterpiece, the “Onomasticon Gadelicum”, completed at the age of seventy-nine, appear four items which are the fruit of his connection with Clongowes. It was from a MS. preserved in Clongowes that he published for the first time in a large quarto volume of nearly four hundred pages, the “Description of Ireland and the State thereof as it is at this present in Anno 1598”. From another MS preserved in Clongowes he published in the “Irish Ecclesiastical Records” : “Hayne's Observation on the State of Ireland in 1600”. Then there is “The History of the Warr of Ireland (from 1641 to 1653)”, by a British Officer of the regiment of Sir John Clotworthy. This from a third Clongowes MS was published by Father Hogan in 1873, in a little volume of one hundred and sixty pages. Lastly, he published comparatively recently from yet another MS preserved in our Museum, “The Jacobite War 1688-1691”, by Colonel Charles O'Kelly.

Father Hogan died at 35 Lower Leeson St., Dublin, on 26th November, 1917. RIP

◆ The Crescent : Limerick Jesuit Centenary Record 1859-1959
Bonum Certamen ... A Biographical Index of Former Members of the Limerick Jesuit Community

Father Edmund Hogan (1831-1917)

A native of Cobh, the eminent Gaelic scholar and historian, was one of the pioneers in the foundation of Sacred Heart College. He entered the Society in 1847; and it is clear that his superiors expected great things of him from the fact that his period of formation was so shortened that he was only twenty-eight years of age when he arrived as a priest in Limerick in 1859. He was appointed minister of the house in 1861 and was in charge of the boys' choir. He remained in the Crescent until 1864. The following years were devoted to research work amongst medieval Irish MSS. For a time he worked with the Bollandists in Belgium on the Lives of the Irish Saints. He returned to the Crescent in 1884 on the teaching staff but remained only one year. The following year at Clongowes saw the end of his career as master. After a short period in Tullabeg, where his sole work was study, he became lecturer in Celtic studies at University College, Dublin and retained that post until the National University replaced the Royal University of Ireland. He remained in the Leeson St community for the rest of his days. Limerick is proud of its associations with Father Hogan's great predecessor in the chair of Celtic Studies, Eugene O'Curry, whose business here was that of time keeper for the building of Sarsfield Bridge. The city may also be proud of its association with Edmund Hogan whose business here was the humble task of educating Limerick schoolboys.

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Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, 1965, Vol. 70, No. 211

Rev. Edmund Hogan S.J. : An Eminent Great Island Scholar

By William Hogan

In the shadow of the ancient Norman keep (1) at the little hamlet of Belvelly (2) near Cobh, Edmund Hogan was bom on 23 January 1831. (3) The writer has in his possession an old family document dated 10 February 1835, in which William Hogan (father of Edmund) agrees with his brother Jeremiah to defray “one half the expences of the Messuages, now in Progress of being Erected” at Belvelly ; and in one of these little houses on the main road to Cobh to the right of the bridge, the scholar priest was reared. (4)

Family tradition has it that the boy’s desire to enter the Church was noticed and fostered by a relative and namesake of his, a priest in the order of St. Francis. (6) No Irish Jesuit novitiate existing at this period, young Edmund entered upon his noviceship in the province of France on 29 November 1847. To the kindness of An tAthair Seosamh Ó Muirthile, C.Í., I am indebted for the following extracts from the available records of the period : “Edmundus Hogan, Scholastic in Belgium 1851 ; Scholastic Novice in France 1852 ; Scholastic in France 1853 and 1854 France in the context means the province of France, and the entry for 1851 may be explained by the fact that the French province was temporarily transferred to Belgium owing to anti-Jesuit feeling in France at the time of the 1848 revolution. It is interesting to note that family tradition records that the rebuke of a Flemish fellow-student was instrumental in arousing Edmund Hogan’s interest in the Irish language of which he had then but an imperfect knowledge and of which he later became so profound a scholar. (6) Having completed his first two years of theology on the continent, his name appears as 3rd year theologian at St. Beuno’s College, Flintshire, Wales, where he was ordained to the priesthood on 23 September 1855, (7) and completed his fourth theological year in 1856.

Fr Hogan first appears in the Irish Jesuit records as “priest, church worker, prefect in charge of the boys, librarian and music teacher at Tullabeg House in 1857-58”. The following year he was transferred to Clongowes College where among other duties he held the post of German teacher. In 1860 he went to Sacred Heart College (presently Crescent College) Limerick, where he worked for the next five years, (8) teaching French, German, logic and music. From there he proceeded to Rome, and his arduous labours among the Roman archives, particularly those relating to Ireland, are evident in his publications of the history of his order and its relation to his native land. From 1873 to 1877, while staying at Milltown Retreat House, he was attached to U.C.D. teaching moral theology. In the capacity of priest and teacher, Fr Hogan served in various Irish Jesuit colleges, but in the records a gradual diminution of his teaching duties can be observed, till in 1887 we find him at Tullamore devoting all his time to studying and writing. In 1889 he returned to Dublin, and while he was Professor of Enghsh and Irish at U.C.D., continued - till old age and failing sight precluded such activities - to spend all the time possible in preparing his literary publications. (9)

Fr Hogan’s first important work appeared in 1866 (Notes on Irish Jesuits in Co. Limerick), and thenceforward he published a steady stream of works in Latin, Irish and English, the versatility of which is amazing, some so erudite as to be esoteric, others readily enjoyed by the ordinary student. (10)

A Fellow of the Royal University of Ireland, Fr Hogan there occupied the Chair of Irish from 1888 until that body’s dissolution. He held a D.Litt. from the National University of Ireland, was a Commissioner for the publication of the Ancient Laws of Ireland and a Governor of the School of Irish Learning.

Elected a member of the R.I.A. on 10 February 1890, he was Todd Professor of the Celtic Languages from 15 June 1891 to 4 May 1898, during which period many of his works were published under the Todd Lecture Series. He was on the Council of the Academy for the years 1899 to 1904 and 1905 to 1909, and acted as secretary for foreign correspondence 1907-1909, a post for which his linguistic abilities, acquired during his years of study on the continent, rendered him eminently suitable. (11)

“Yet with all his great learning,” his friend Dr Douglas Hyde has written, “he was charmingly simple, and delighted in anecdotes about people he had met and known.” Dr Hyde goes on: “His room used to be littered - shelves, tables and floor - with books, journals, papers and rare volumes, beyond any room that I have ever seen, and yet he always found what he wanted” . (12) Here we have a fine pen picture of a dedicated scholar delving into the richest repositories of history.

His greatest work Onomasticon Goedelicum was also produced under the auspices of the R.I.A. In the spring of 1900 he received the following letter :

Royal Irish Academy,
19 Dawson Street
Dublin, April 2nd, 1900.
Rev Dear Sir,
I am sure that I only voice the general feeling of the Irish Manuscripts Committee in suggesting to you that you should undertake the preparation of a Dictionary of Irish Names (Places and Persons) gathered from our facsimiles and M.S.S.
The matter is important, because one has to waste so much time in collateral studies, while really the linguistic and archaeological sides are in themselves difficult enough to need the student’s whole attention. “Divide et impera” is a good rule.
        Yours Faithfully,
        Robert Atkinson.  (13)
Rev. Dr. Hogan.

Dr Hogan, though then in his 70th year, accepted the task, and for the next ten years devoted all the time at his disposal to it. The magnitude of the undertaking may be realised from the fact that the volume consists of close on 700 double pages, closely printed in abbreviated form, each containing between forty and fifty items. No less than 176 sources - manuscript and printed - are cited. Hints as to the gender and declension of each name are given, as well as its identification where possible, and the text or texts in which it occurs. In addition many informative topographical and historical notes are added. In the preface Fr Hogan acknowledges the kind assistance he received from various people in the compilation of this work, among them Fr John C. MacErlean and Prof. Eoin MacNeill. These two pupils of his in later years held honoured positions among the nation’s litterati.

After the completion of this work, Fr Hogan whose sight and general health had begun to deteriorate, lived what may be described as a life of semi-retirement. He died at the Jesuit House, Lower Leeson Street, Dublin, on 26 November 1917 ndi was interred in the Jesuit plot at Glasnevin. Many were the eulogies written and spoken at the time of his death, and many a scholar has since paid tribute to his literary attainments, none more gracefully than that late respected member of this Society, Dr R. Foley (Fiacra Éilgeach), who when dedicating his Log Ainmneacha wrote :

Seo méaróg dá chaitheamh agam ar charn eagarthóra “Onomasticon Goedelicum”, .i. an tAthair Éamonn Ó hÓgáin, C.Í., 1831-1917. - Ó Dhroichead na Scairte ar Oileán Mór an Bharraigh - An dinnsheanchaidhe ba toghtha dhlobh go léir.

(1) The erection of the 14th century Belvelly castle is attributed by many historians (without apparent authority) to the Hodnet family. No early Norman document accords a position of importance to this family in East Cork. On the other hand, see Doc. No. 801 Cal. Docs. Relating to Ireland 1293-1301 wherein “Cleynboly in Inysmor” is of the fee of Wm. de Barry, and is held immediately of John de Barry (the Lord Barry of the period). Is it likely that the Barry chieftain, then residing in Barryscourt, would permit another family to erect a castle at the ford to the Great Island of which he was (probably in toto, certainly in part) the Lord ? For article on this castle see JCHAS, XXI, (1915), 105-112.

(2) An old Irish name for the district contiguous to the bridge, Droichead Na Scairte (see dedication in Dr Foley’s Log Ainmneacha) could indicate that some means of crossing the ford, constructed of undressed timber, at one time existed. The present bridge was erected by public subscription in 1807, (Power's Placenames S .E . Cork, Bar. Barrymore, p. 222, P .R .I.A .) ; the middle arch, demolished during the Civil War, was restored shortly after the cease-fire.

(3) See Studies vol. 6, December 1917, p. 663. Baptismal Register, St Colman’s Cathedral, Cobh gives the following particulars : Edmund Hogan : Parents, William Hogan and Mary Morris ; Sponsors, William Walsh and Anne Morris ; Celebrant, Rev. P. Sullivan ; Date 25 Jan. 1831. William Hogan came of a family who have traditionally followed the craft of masonry in the Great Island and East Cork area. Mary Morris was a native of Killeagh, daughter of a carpenter, who also farmed some land.

(4) See Griffiths Val. Text and Map 1853.

(5) Substantiation of this tradition was obtained in an interesting manner. In the library of Jesuit House, Lr. Leeson St. Dublin, is a copy of Brenan’s Eccl. Hist, of Ireland vol. II (1840), which has been annotated by Ed. Hogan S.J. ; near the entry in the list of subscribers “ Rev. E. Hogan, Cork, 3 copies,” he wrote " 2nd cousin of E. Hogan S.J.” (For this information the writer is indebted to Fr Stephenson S.J. Dublin). Fr T. J. Walsh, Turners Cross, Cork, has kindly informed me that no priest of that name save Fr. Ed. Pasch. Hogan O.F.M. officiated in Cork city around this period. For interesting note on reliquary bearing this priest’s name, found during removal of an altar at St Francis Church, Broad Lane, Cork, see JCHAS, LIX, (1954), 128.

Fr Cathaldus Giblin, O.F.M., Dún Mhuire, Killiney has kindly furnished the following particulars : Edmund Paschal Hogan (full name in religion), born Cork city 18 March 1798 ; entered Francis­ can Order 1815 ; studied in Rome ; appointed to Cork Community 1824 ; elected Guad, Cork 1832 ; Prov. of Irish Franciscans 1834-37 ; Guad. Cork 1840 ; Vicar Prov. Ir. Frans. 1843-46 ; Guad, Cork 1846-48 ; Vicar Prov. 1854-65 ; Guad. Cork again in 1861 ; some years later fell into bad health and resided with his sister at Sunday’s Well, Cork, till his death 16 Jan. 1872.

(6) Dr Douglas Hyde mentions this circumstance in a slightly different manner in Studies, vol 6, 1917, p. 667.

(7) To Fr R. Clarke S.J. 114 Mount Street, London, W.I., I am deeply indebted for these facts; he also states that in the Catalogues for 1855 and 1856 Fr Hogan is listed as belonging to the Vice-Province of Ireland. Fr David Hoy S.J., Heythrop College, Chipping Norton, Oxon, also assisted in this matter and kindly supplied the date of Fr Hogan’s entry into the Order (29 Nov. 1847).

(8) Dr Douglas Hyde as in n. 6.

(9) I am indebted to Fr John Ryan, S.J. Dublin, for chronological data in this paragraph,

(10) cf. bibliography of Fr Hogan’s works in Studies vol. 6, 1917-

(11) Data from R.I.A. archives.

(12) Dr Douglas Hyde as in n. 6.

(13) see preface Onomasticon.

◆ Woodstock Letters SJ : Vol 15, Number 1

“Disguises and Aliases of Early Missionaries” p72

During the Penal Days cruel laws were in force against Seminarists and Jesuits who dared set foot in England and Ireland. In many cases,·the penal laws against Catholic priests were also put into excution in the British Colonies.

In order, therefore, to escape detection Catholic missionaries generally adopted assumed names, and put on various disguises. Outwardly they took upon themselves offices which became only laymen. They sometimes acted in the capacity of coachmen, clerks, or booksellers. Often they were forced to assume characters more romantic. A priest was seen in Waterford, Ireland, “with a ruffling suit of apparel, gilt rapier, and dagger hanging at his side”. A Catholic bishop was seen in the same city dressed as a highland piper, and playing martial airs upon the national instrument of Scotland. Sometimes our Fathers assumed military titles, such as colonel or captain.

Our Very Rev. Father General was occasionally spoken of as, “his Lordship”.

Fr. Hogan says, in speaking of the Irish Jesuits:

“On account of the dangers to which they and the Catholics were exposed, the Jesuit Fathers took or gave false names;

thus Holywood is jo Bus., and sometimes Bushlock, Laundrie, the Pilot, etc.;
Archer is Bowman, or Bertram's eldest son;
Wise is Barbarossa;
O'Carney is De Franca; ·
Wall is Philaberto.
Fr Acquaviva, General of the Society, was known as “Claude Merchaunt at Rouen”.

By a glance at the “Catalogue of our Missionary Fathers”, in this number of the LETTERS, the reader will see how common was the practice among our Fathers in Maryland and Pennsylvania of assuming strange names.

◆ Woodstock Letters SJ : Vol 26, Number 3

“Varia - Honours to Father Edmund Hogan SJ” p504

A high honor was conferred by the Royal University this year on this distinguished Celtic scholar. The Marquis of Dufferin, Chancellor of the University, referring to Father Hogan said:
“We are about to confer the degree of Doctor of Literature on the Rev Edmund Hogan, University College, Dublin. Father Hogan's contributions to literature, and especially to the researches into the history of our own country, have been so considerable that it would take too long to enumerate them; all of them are of the highest interest, and many of them exhibit his wonderful knowledge not only of modern Irish, but of the old language of our ancestors”.

◆ Woodstock Letters SJ : Vol 40, Number 2

“Varia: Ireland” p254

....... Father Edmund Hogan, D Litt, FRUI, has just published a book which will be a lasting monument to his profound scholarship and indefatigable zeal in the cause of Irish studies. The volume, which is issued under the aus- pices of the Royal Irish Academy and runs to over seven hundred pages, bears the title: “Onomasticon Gredelicum Locorum et Tribuum Hibernire et Scotire: An Index, with Identifications, to the Gaelic Names of Places and Tribes”.

Ten years, ago, when in his seventieth year, Father Hogan, though busily engaged as Professor and Examiner of Irish Language and History in the University, began to get ready for the press the mass of materials he had collected for this work. He has had the satisfaction of being able to see this standard work printed and published, and is already hard at work on another volume.

◆ Woodstock Letters SJ : Vol 47, Number 2

“Varia: Ireland - Death of Father Edmund Hogan SJ” p260

Professor Douglas Hyde contributed to Studies for December, 1917, a finely worded notice of Father Hogan's life and work. It opens thus:

“At a ripe old age, loved and admired by a large circle of friends, and honored by scholars in many countries, there passed away from us on the 26th of November, the Rev Edmund Hogan SJ, DLitt. A connecting link with the era of O'Donovan and O'Curry, he was himself a distinguished and brilliant scholar, a pioneer in many fields of Irish History, philology and topography”.

Father Hogan was born near the Cove of Cork on January 23, 1831. He entered the Society in 1847, was ordained in 1856, and after thirty years of service as a writer, teacher and missionary preacher, became Fellow, in Celtic, of the Royal University in 1887. From that year till the University was dissolved in 1909, he lived and wrote and taught at the old University College at St Stephen's Green. To elucidate the early history of the Society in Ireland, he devoted unsparing labor: the well-filled volume on the Distinguished Irishmen of the Sixteenth Century gives, by no means, all that he sought out and published in this field. The thirty-eight numbers in his bibliography (Studies, Dec, 1917, pp 668-671) ranging from 1866 to 1910, all testify to his scholarship and marvellous power of perseverance in research. The volumes published by him as Todd Lecturer in the Royal Irish Academy (1892-1895) added much to the knowledge of the older Irish texts. But the crowning work of all was the great quarto of 700 pages, “Onomasticon Goidelicum Locorum et Tribuum Hiberniae et Scotiae”, prepared between the seventieth and eightieth years of his life, and published by the Royal Irish Academy in 1910. “It is a book which is, and will remain”, writes Dr Douglas Hyde, “indispensable to every student of Irish literature: to his own memory he has erected a momentum aere perennius”. In it the utmost limit of condensation of matter had to be reached, owing to the meagre resources of the Academy: had Father Hogan anything aproaching and full opportunity of using his accumulated materials, the work could fittingly have occupied many further volumes. The account of his life already drawn on, prepared by one who was long his colleague as examiner for the Royal University, notes that “there was about him a kind of massive dignity and an impressive imperturbability of temperament, while his manner was always courteous and agreeable”. Those who were nearest to him in domestic and religious life can add that a dominant note in his thoughts was always that unflinching thoroughness and sensitiveness of the virtue of faith, which is the abiding foundation of all that is best in the really Irish Catholic. Doubtless Father Hogan gained much in this direction from his labors on the records of Irish martyrs and confessors. With his marvellous memory accurate and clear to the last, he worked up to a late hour on the night before he died, directing the details of proof concerning the Irish Jesuit martyrs of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries, for the Apostolic Process now proceeding in the Diocesan Court at Dublin. His eighty-seven years of service could have no finer conclusion.

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Edmund Ignatius Hogan S.J. (23 January 1831 – 26 November 1917) was an Irish Jesuit scholar.

Life
Hogan was born at Belvelly near Cobh, County Cork on 23 January 1831, the youngest son of William Hogan and his wife Mary Morris.[1] He joined the Society of Jesus and studied for the priesthood in Belgium and France. He returned to Ireland where he taught German for a year at Clongowes Wood College; and then languages and music in the Sacred Heart College, Limerick.

After extensive research in Rome Hogan published a history of the Jesuits in Ireland and a life of Saint Patrick. He lectured on Irish language and history at University College Dublin, and was Todd Professor (Celtic) at the Royal Irish Academy.

Hogan died on 26 November 1917.[2]

Works
Hogan's works included:

Limerick, its history and antiquities (1866)[1]
Ibernia Ignatiana (1880)[1]
Cath Ruis na Ríg for Bóinn (1892)[1]
Distinguished Irishmen of the 16th Century (1894)
History of the Irish wolf dog (1897)[1]
A handbook of Irish idioms (1898)[1]
Irish Phrase Book (1899)
Onomasticon Goedelicum: An Index to Irish Names of Places and Tribes (1910) compiled from manuscripts;[1] based on the research of John O'Donovan.
Other works were A Description of Ireland in 1598 and Chronological list of the Irish members of the Society of Jesus, 1550-1814. He also contributed to the editing and compilation of works in his field.

References
Ó Raghallaigh, Eoghan. "Hogan, Edmund Ignatius, Dictionary of Irish Biography - Cambridge University Press". dib.cambridge.org.
Edmund [S. J.] Hogan Ricorso