{"id":45156,"date":"2026-04-07T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/explorecatholic.nl\/nieuws\/irish-childhood-shaped-father-flanagans-lifelong-work-with-youth\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T11:00:00","slug":"irish-childhood-shaped-father-flanagans-lifelong-work-with-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/explorecatholic.nl\/en\/nieuws\/irish-childhood-shaped-father-flanagans-lifelong-work-with-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish childhood shaped Father Flanagan\u2019s lifelong work with youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A loving Catholic family at home in Ireland provided the foundations and values that led\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fatherflanagan.org\/\">Venerable Father Edward Flanagan<\/a>\u00a0to establish Boys Town in Omaha, Nebraska, according to experts on his life in Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>Flanagan, who was born and raised in the small village of Ballymoe, Ireland, before emigrating to the United States, was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ewtnnews.com\/vatican\/boys-town-founder-father-flanagan-moves-one-step-closer-to-sainthood\">declared venerable<\/a>\u00a0on March 23 by Pope Leo XIV.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>Father Edward Flanagan ouside Ballymoe Church in Ireland in 1946. | Credit: Photo courtesy of Father Flanagan Visitor Centre<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Fidelma and Alan Croghan of the Father Flanagan Group in Ballymoe provided insight into the Irish priest\u2019s formative years to EWTN News. \u201cHe was the fourth-youngest of 11 children. His father was a herdsman looking after an absentee landlord\u2019s livestock on the estate. They lived in a cottage here at Leabeg,\u201d Fidelma said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom birth Father Flanagan\u2019s life was bathed in the warm embrace of a loving family. On the night he was born, they didn\u2019t think that he would survive because he was quite ill. He was a very sickly person all of his life in terms of bad lung health. The story goes that his grandparents also lived in the house with them. So the grandfather took the tiny newborn baby and put the baby skin to skin, against his own heart for the night, and Eddie survived.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fidelma shared that from the moment of his birth, Flanagan \u201cknew love and the loving bond of a family; he had a very happy upbringing. Their home was full of music and happiness, neighbors came in and they played music and danced on the stone flagstones of the kitchen floor before a big open fire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added: \u201cHe worked with his dad as a shepherd boy tending to the sheep. He was into prayer and reading from a young age, and he wrote about going out on the land with his rosary beads and reading Dickens.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>Father Edward Flanagan and his brother P.A. Flanagan visit their sister in Ballymoe, Ireland, in 1946. | Credit: Photo courtesy of Father Flanagan Visitor Centre<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Following primary education at the nearby Drumatemple National School, Flanagan attended the Diocesan College of the Immaculate Conception, Summerhill College, Sligo, to complete his secondary education and prepare for life as a priest.<\/p>\n<p>Alan Croghan said he has no doubt that the future priest\u2019s upbringing and the family values he espoused throughout his life were formed by his origins and his upbringing in Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur purpose in Ireland here is to educate people and tell them about this man, going on to America to do what he did in Boys Town. He took what he learned here in Ballymoe, how a family should be run,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>Father Edward Flanagan. | Credit: Photo courtesy of Father Flanagan Visitor Centre<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bishop\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicbishops.ie\/2026\/03\/23\/bishop-kevin-doran-welcomes-pope-leo-naming-fr-flanagan-on-path-to-sainthood\/\">Kevin Doran<\/a> of Achonry and of Elphin told EWTN News: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/gr8FS2caEzk?si=C3lNBH8NY6ZWY86q\">Father Flanagan\u2019s life<\/a>\u00a0and virtue have much to say to us today, in a wealthy country where so many children are forced to live with homelessness, and in a world in which we still find it so easy to define people as \u2018hostile aliens.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Boys Town families and descendants often visit Ballymoe and the <a href=\"https:\/\/fatherflanaganvisitorcentre.ie\/\">Father Flanagan Visitor Centre<\/a>\u00a0to see the famous priest\u2019s hometown. Fidelma Croghan said: \u201cWe had a woman come two or three years ago, and she knelt on the floor of the house, and she cried, and cried, and cried, and said, \u2018Only Father Flanagan saved my father; I wouldn\u2019t be here.\u2019 Another visitor told me: \u2018I would have been dead as a young man, or would have spent my life in jail, only for Boys Town.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>The Flanagan homestead in Ballymoe, Ireland, as it is today. | Credit: Photo courtesy of Father Flanagan Visitor Centre<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If Flanagan\u2019s experiences growing up in Ireland shaped his compassionate approach to the social issues he encountered in Nebraska, his experiences there dealing with troubled boys and young men subsequently influenced his reactions during a return trip to Ireland in 1946, when he visited the country\u2019s reform schools.<\/p>\n<p>He was profoundly troubled at the desperately poor conditions and treatment they encountered. Speaking about the schools in Cork, he told the audience: \u201cYou are the people who permit your children and the children of your communities to go into these institutions of punishment. You can do something about it.\u201d He described his country\u2019s penal institutions as \u201ca disgrace to the nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Flanagan had received letters from Ireland drawing attention to the brutal regimes in these schools and wanted to see for himself how bad conditions really were.<\/p>\n<p>In response to his prophetic warnings, the Irish government minister for justice at the time, Gerald Boland, told the D\u00e1il (Irish legislative chamber) \u201cthat he was \u2018not disposed to take any notice of what Monsignor Flanagan said while he was in this country, because his statements were so exaggerated that I did not think people would attach any importance to them.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The schools Flanagan visited included Artane and Letterfrack, institutions that became notorious after the truth of the abuses inflicted on students there eventually emerged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A loving Catholic family at home in Ireland provided the foundations and values that led\u00a0Venerable Father Edward Flanagan\u00a0to establish Boys Town in Omaha, Nebraska, according to experts on his life in Ireland. 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