James L. "Séamus" Ryan (1937 – 11 February 2023) was an Irish priest. He was a renowned lecturer and gifted hurler who played at senior level for the Limerick county team, winning the

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title in 1955, alongside his older brother

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(who also became a priest and lecturer in sociology in Maynooth) who

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ed the side. Their father Willie Ryan had also played inter-county hurling. From Cappamore, Co. Limerick, he went to St Patrick's College, Maynooth to study for the priesthood. At Maynooth he earned a doctorate and was ordained a priest in 1961. Fr. Seamus with the benefit of a German Government scholarship to the University of Munster in Westphalia, Germany, studied under young Professor Ratzinger later Pope Benedict. Returning to Ireland in 1964, Ryan lectured in theology in

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up until 1990 when he was appointed parish priest to St Matthews Parish, Ballyfermot Upper in Dublin. He retired as parish priest of St Matthew's in 2016, returning to his native Cappamore. Ryan died on 11 February 2023.

Honours

;St. Flannan's College * Dr. Harty Cup: 1952, 1954 ;Cappamore *

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1954 Events January * January 1 – The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from West Germany. * January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting. * January 7 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The fir ...

1956 Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim ...

1959 Events January * January 1 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance. * January 2 - Lunar probe Luna 1 was the first man-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reached the vicinity of E ...

;Limerick *

1955 Events January * January 3 – José Ramón Guizado becomes president of Panama. * January 17 – , the first nuclear-powered submarine, puts to sea for the first time, from Groton, Connecticut. * January 18– 20 – Battle of Yijian ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ryan, Séamus 1937 births 2023 deaths Alumni of St Patrick's College, Maynooth Cappamore hurlers Irish lecturers Limerick inter-county hurlers People educated at St Flannan's College Roman Catholic clergy in Europe 20th-century Irish Roman Catholic priests 21st-century Irish Roman Catholic priests