Edward Cahill
Irish Jesuit priest and academic, born in Ballingrane, Co. Limerick in 1868. Educated in Theology at Maynooth, and ordained a priest in 1897. In 1924 he joined the staff of the Jesuit Milltown Park Institute in Dublin as Professor of Church History, Lecturer in Sociology and later, Spiritual Father.
In October, 1926, on the occasion of the first celebration of the Feast of Christ the King, he founded "An RÃoghacht," the League of the Kingship of Christ. The object of this society was to ensure the use of Catholic Social Teaching in the Irish Free State. "An RÃoghacht," under Fr. Cahill's guidance, organised public meetings three or four times a year, published pamphlets on current topics and even attempted to produce a weekly paper to further its ideals. He was a regular contributor the Irish Ecclesiastical Record and the Irish Monthly. His works often stressed the link between Catholicism and nationalism.
He died on July 16, 1941 at 73 after a long illness. His life works are as follows:
Books "The Abbot of Mungret," a play in 4 acts. (1925); "Freemasonry and the Anti-Christian Movement" (1929, second edition 1930); "The Framework of the Christian State" (1932)--reprinted.
Pamphlets The Truth about Freemasonry (Australian C.T.S.); The Catholic Social Movement (Irish Messenger Office); Rural Secondary Schools (I.M.O.); Ireland and the Kingship of Christ (I.M.O.); The Oldest Nation in Europe (I.M.O.); Ireland as a Catholic Nation (I.M.O.); Ireland's Peril (Messrs. Gill); Capitalism and its Alternatives (I.C.T.S.).