Everything tagged: Ireland

Teresa Young was married to a Portuguese man. She was probably the sister of Hazel Hardy, in which case she too would have been originally Irish. 

Hazel Hardy was a Hong Kong civil servant in the period leading up to the Japanese attack. She was not interned after the surrender because she had Irish papers.

Her fiance before the war was Sergeant R. J. Hardy (R.A.F.), who became a POW in Shamshuipo. He sent her letters through Chinese labourers when he was part of a party forced to work on the extension of Kai Tak airport. She sent in replies by the same route and also smuggled in medicines and food - hence the nickname.

Father Gerald L. Kennedy was an Irish Jesuit stationed at Wah Yan College between 1938-1941.

He had RAMC experience during WW1 and took over the running of St Teresa's Hospital in Kowloon during the December 1941 conflict.

He can be seen in this photo:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jesuitsireland/8716764939/

Obituaries:

http://www.wahyan-psa.org/obituary/FrFoley/

http://archives.catholic.org.hk/In%20Memoriam/Clergy-Brother/Jo-Foley.h…

Father Paul O'Brien was an Irish Jesuit priest.

During the December 1941 hostilities he worked in Billetting Control. He performed the burial service for Volunteer Maxwell in the grounds of St John's Cathedral. (Thomas Ryan, Jesuits Under Fire in the Siege of Hong Kong, 1944, 25, 154)

He lived for tne first part of the occupation with other Jesuits at St. Paul's Hospital and one source describes him as 'Chaplain of the French Hospital at Causeway Bay' in April 1942. (Nathan Greenfield The Damned, 2010,  Location 3736).

Father Thomas Ryan came to Hong Kong as a Jesuit in 1933.

Father Joseph O'Mara was an Irish Jesuit who served as a volunteer with the Billeting organisation during the December 1941 hostilities.

Father Patrick Joy was ordained a priest in 1926 and came to Hong Kong as a   Jesuit in 1927. In 1931 he was appointed Professor of Moral Theology at the Reginal Seminary for South China (now the Holy Spirit Seminary, Aberdeen).

In the summer of 1941 he was appointed the Jesuit Regional Superior. As an Irish citizen he was not interned by the Japanese. During the occupation he lived first at the French Hospital, later at Wah Yan College.

He was arrested in May, 1943 and held until August. The charge is not known.

I'm looking for photos / sketches / portraits of him for the CPS project's history book.

Details of birth & death taken from John Joseph Francis, citizen of Hong Kong, a biographical note. It also mentions that he was Police Magistrate in 1878 and 1880.