The Latin School, Moyne » Jim Morris http://thelatinschoolmoyne.org Share Your Memories, Write History Sat, 04 Sep 2010 17:50:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 “The University of Moyne” http://thelatinschoolmoyne.org/?p=42 http://thelatinschoolmoyne.org/?p=42#comments Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:42:09 +0000 fathermichaeldoyle http://thelatinschoolmoyne.org/?p=42 The late Father Jim Morris always referred to it, as “The University of Moyne”. I’m afraid it was a little too permissive for my undisciplined ways, especially my first couple of years there, with dear Father John Kearney, a superb teacher and gentleman, whose poor health often meant no more than a two and a half to three hour day. He was such a fine teacher however that I can still remember his absorbing “asides” from the Latin and Greek texts we were invariably “cogging” from Kelly or Bell.

Father John Meehan, another gentleman and first class teacher, got me interested in English Literature for which I have never lost my taste. He came before Kearney was appointed to a parish. Ed Boylan, the tough kind of Irish teacher, joined Fr. Meehan. Boylan was deliberately rough, rough as the “country lads” he was pledged to “inform” in the Classics, a good teacher and a radical change from poor Kearney who had taught in Brooklyn’s Jr. Seminary for three or four years. John Meehan was a born scholar who both during and on his return from World War (France) read extensively in European literature.

The same “University of Moyne” James Morris of Fyhora and one of our California pioneering Irish Missionary priests, used to insist that Moyne Latin School and its wider Dromard Community was a modern version of the early Irish monastic settlements which included not only the monks, priests, and sometimes, the nuns, but the families in the area of the monastery; they all joined in the Masses, prayers, devotions.

So, Moyne was not just the Latin School but the Community. And the Moyne community was not only a “levitical community” as Bishop McNamee once described it; but an ecclesial community. I talked to John McNamee about this and he seems to agree with it.

Written by John V. Sheridan

Msgr. John V. Sheridan is at Our Lady of Malibu in California (both he and Michael Doyle are Moyne men from the parish of St. Colmcille, County Longford). John Sheridan was born on December 19, 1914 and ordained on April, 1943. Michael Doyle said “He is a great man.”

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