Terence L. Connolly

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Terence Leo Connolly SJ (26 September 1888 – 24 March 1961) was an American Roman Catholic priest, librarian and educator.

Biography

Terence Connolly was born at North Attleborough, Massachusetts, the son of Terence Connolly and his wife Catherine (née Hayden). In 1908, Connolly entered the Jesuit Novitiate of St. Andrew-on-the-Hudson in New York, where he studied for four years. he was ordained a priest in 1922, having studied and taught at Woodstock College, Fordham University and Georgetown University. In 1929, Connolly became a professor of English and head of the English Department at Boston College.

Connolly had an interest in Catholic poetry, particularly the works of Francis Thompson. He traveled extensively in England and Ireland. In 1946, Connolly became director of the Boston College libraries, and remained in the role until he was named director of special collections in 1959. In 1976, Boston College named Connolly House, its new faculty center in Chestnut Hill, in tribute to him and to his successor as Boston College Librarian, a fellow Jesuit named Brendan Connolly.

He was a member of the Modern Language Association, the Medieval Academy of America and the Catholic Renascence Society.

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