Edward J. Cahill, S.J. (18 February 1868–16 July 1941) was an Irish Jesuit priest and academic, born in Ballyvocogue, Cappagh, County Limerick. He was educated in Theology at Maynooth, and ordained a priest in 1897. He served on the staff of Mungret College and in the years before the Easter Rising he was known for facilitating Irish Volunteers in their training in Mungret. In 1924, he joined the staff of the Jesuit Milltown Park Institute in Dublin as Professor of Church History, Lecturer in Sociology, and later, Spiritual Father.

In October 1926, on the occasion of the first celebration of the Feast of Christ the King, he founded "An Ríoghacht", the League of the Kingship of Christ.

He was a regular contributor the Irish Ecclesiastical Record and the Irish Monthly. His works often stressed the link between Catholicism and nationalism.

He died on 16 July 1941, aged 73, after a long illness.

Bibliography

;Books

  • The Abbot of Mungret, a play in 4 acts. (1925);
  • Freemasonry and the anti-Christian Movement Dublin: M.H. Gill & Son, 1929, 1930 2nd ed., rev. and enl.
  • The Framework of the Christian State (1932) reprinted.

;Pamphlets

  • The Truth about Freemasonry (Australian C.T.S.)
  • The Catholic Social Movement (Irish Messenger Office)
  • Rural Secondary Schools (I.M.O.)
  • Ireland and the Kingship of Christ (I.M.O.)
  • The Oldest Nation in Europe (I.M.O.)
  • Ireland as a Catholic Nation (I.M.O.)
  • Ireland's Peril (Messrs. Gill)
  • Capitalism and its Alternatives (I.C.T.S.).

References

  • The Ireland of Edward Cahill (1868–1941): a liberal or a Christian state? at History Ireland
  • The Problem of Capitalism in Irish Catholic Social Thought, 1922-19501 by Aidan Beatty