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Fr Edmund Keane SJ

June
1963
Photo:
Michael
Laffan

Memoirs
of Eddie Keane’s forty-year service in Gonzaga abound,
and readers might consult the Record of 1991 (not yet on
line) where tributes were paid to him on his retirement by
Gerry Murphy and David Keenahan.

Eddie is remembered by later generations of
Gonzagans for his immense contribution to tennis in the
college. He was, of course, an all-round sportsman,
‘feared by most other Jesuit houses when he captains the
Gonzaga golf team’, but in the ˋfifties he was chiefly
responsible for cricket.

Through his hands would have passed David Ensor
(ˋ66) the school’s first cricket international, and Eddie
Lewis (ˋ70) an inter-provincial cricketer (captain, Leinster
u-19 side) and captain of the Irish Universities team in the
ˋseventies. (See Sport, cricket section for more photos and
his own article, ‘The Gonzaga that was . . .’ Record 1990)

th
An appreciation in The Irish Times, 20 June 2000 above the
initials A.M. was contributed by Aidan Mathews (ˋ74) and is
reprinted in The Gonzaga Record 2000.

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