Shaw, Nessan, 1915-1997, Capuchin priest

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Shaw, Nessan, 1915-1997, Capuchin priest

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        18 May 1915-13 July 1997

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        Henry Shaw was born in Dungarvan in County Waterford on 18 May 1915. He joined the Capuchin Order in November 1933 and took Nessan as his religious name. He was ordained a priest on 29 June 1943. As a postgraduate student in University College Cork, he completed a thesis titled ‘The Life and Times of Fr. Theobald Mathew’ for an MA degree in 1939. He retained a life-long interest in the subject and accumulated many documentary sources, publications and notes pertaining to Fr. Mathew and his nineteenth-century campaign against intemperance. Most of his priestly ministry was spent in County Cork and he was a teacher for many years in the Seraphic College in Rochestown. For a brief period in the 1940s he worked as a missionary in Aden which was, as part of the Apostolic Vicariate of Arabia, under the care of the Capuchin friars. On his return to Ireland, Fr. Nessan resumed his priestly duties in Cork. As an avid supporter of Gaelic games, he held several senior administrative positions with various clubs associated with ‘Cumann Lúthchleas Gael’ in Cork. Fr. Nessan edited a collection of essays on the history of the Irish Capuchins in the twentieth century (titled ‘The Irish Capuchins / Record of a Century’) which was published in 1985. The last sixteen years of his life were spent as parish priest in Gurranabraher, a residential suburb on the north-western side of Cork city. He died on 13 July 1997 and was buried in the cemetery attached to Rochestown Capuchin Friary in County Cork.

        Baptismal name: Henry Shaw
        Religious name: Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap.
        Date of birth: 18 May 1915
        Place of birth: Dungarvan, County Waterford
        Name of father: Herbert Shaw (Baker)
        Name of mother: Mary Anne Shaw (née Curran)
        Date of parents’ marriage: 16 Oct. 1913
        Date of reception into the Capuchin Order: 7 Nov. 1933
        Date of first profession: 8 Nov. 1934
        Date of solemn profession: 8 Nov. 1937
        Date of ordination (as priest): 29 June 1943
        Educational attainments: BA, 1937; MA, 2nd class hons., 1939; Higher Diploma in Education
        Date of death: 13 July 1997
        Place of death: Bons Secours Hospital, Cork
        Place of burial: Cemetery, Rochestown Capuchin Friary, County Cork

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