Robert Carbery SJ (1829–1903) was an Irish

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, who served as Rector of Clongowes Wood College, and President of

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. Born in Youghal, County Cork in 1829. He studied for a time at Trinity College, Dublin, then at

Clongowes Wood College Clongowes Wood College SJ is a Catholic voluntary boarding school for boys near Clane, County Kildare, Ireland, founded by the Jesuits in 1814. It features prominently in James Joyce's semi-autobiographical novel '' A Portrait of the Artist ...

, before going to St. Patrick's College, Maynooth to study for the priesthood for the Diocese of Cloyne, where he was ordained. He then joined the Jesuits in 1854, St Acuil, Amiens in France. He taught for some twelve years at the Jesuit St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Co. Offaly, he taught at Clongowes, and served as Master of Novices in Milltown Park. While in Miltown he befriended the writer

William Carleton William Carleton (4 March 1794, Prolusk (often spelt as Prillisk as on his gravestone), Clogher, County Tyrone – 30 January 1869, Sandford Road, Ranelagh, Dublin) was an Irish writer and novelist. He is best known for his ''Traits and ...

although a convert to Anglicanism, Fr Carbery offered him the last rites, which Carleton politely refused. Fr Carbery was appointed Rector of Clongowes in 1870 serving until 1876. He succeeded William Delany SJ as President of University College Dublin, in 1888 and was also succeeded by Fr Delany in 1897. Fr Carbery died in Milltown Park, on September 3, 1903. ''Obituary Father Robert Carbery SJ'', by Matthew Russell, The Clongownian, 1904.

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