Rev. Michael Montague (17731845) was an Irish

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and educator, from the parish of Errigal-Kiernan in

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. He was educated for the priesthood first at Clare Castle Seminary, Tandragee,

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, and then at

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, where he was to spend his adult life. He was a student at Maynooth from the college's opening in November 1795. He was ordained

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for the Armagh Archdiocese by Archbishop O'Reilly, ordained priest by the president of the college at Maynooth, Dr.

Peter Flood Peter Flood was an Irish priest and educator. A native of Legan, Co. Longford, Flood received his seminary education in Paris, gaining an MA(1774) and LTh(1780). Dr Flood became Professor of Theology, first, at the College de Navarre and late ...

, and encouraged to take up a position in the college. He served as

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and vice-president from 1816, and was elevated to president in 1834, the first Maynooth educated President of the College. He resigned the office of president in 1845 due to ill health, and died in October that year.

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