John F Hogan

Rev John F. Hogan DD (1858-1918) was an Irish priest and educator, who served as President of St. Patrick's College, Maynooth from 1912 until 1918. Born in County Clare, John was educated in Ennis, before completing his studies at St. Sulpice, Paris and in the University of Freiburg. In 1886 he was appointed Professor of Modern Languages at Maynooth College, and in 1888 Vice President, in 1894 he succeed Bishop Robert Browne who had been appointed to Cloyne as editor of Irish Ecclesiastical Record.

Canon Hogan served a member of the senate of and as pro-vice chancellor of the newly constituted National University of Ireland. Dr. Hogan was succeeded in Maynooth by his vice president Monsignor James MacCaffrey.

Dr. Hogan was nephew of the Very Rev. John Baptist Hogan, S. S., D.D., a member of the Sulpician order was Rector of St. John's Seminary, Boston.

Monsignor Hogan resigned as president of Maynooth in October 1918 and he died on 24 of November 1918.

He was President during the events of Easter Week 1916 and similar centenary events are bringing to light contemporary evidence of the attitude of both seminary staff and students to the Easter Rising.

Dr. Hogan contributed many articles to American Catholic Quarterly as well as the Dublin Review. He also wrote:

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