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Anne-Marie Treacy, Lecturer in Music RWD B06, Music Department, University of Wolverhampton, Gorway Road, Walsall WS1 3BD, England.

Born into a musical family in Waterford, Ireland, I experienced an eclectic range of music during my formative years having attended everything from Waterford’s annual festival of Light Opera to “Spraoi”, a celebration of street music and art as well as traditional sessions of Irish music in pubs throughout Ireland. Along the way I also developed a keen interest in history. Currently I am working on French and English music c.1300-c.1450 analysing compositional style in the Old Hall Manuscript, Ms. Ivrea, and the Apt manuscript. I am also exploring issues of patronage and political commentary in the early poetry (pre- Canterbury Tales) of Geoffrey Chaucer and the music and poetry of Guillaume de Machaut including Le Remede de Fortune, and Le Jugement de Roi de Behaingne. Other interests include performance aspects of Medieval English Drama and I have worked specifically on the function of music in York 45: The Assumption of the Virgin. In addition, I have produced medieval plays for The Granary Theatre, University College Cork, including Fulgens and Lucres and Adam de la Halle’s Jeu de Robin et Marion. In addition, I am director of the University of Wolverhampton’s Early Music Ensemble, Réaltanna, which performs a repertoire of both instrumental and vocal music from the medieval and renaissance periods. Increasingly Réaltanna are also extending their repertoire to include both traditional Irish folktunes and compositions by contemporary Irish composers such as Michael McGlynn and Shaun Davey.

 

 

Revd Bernard Treacy OP, editor of the influential Dominican periodical Doctrine & Life

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pictured at the launch of the Authority of Scripture in Christ Church Cathedral are the Archbishop of Armagh, the Most Revd Dr Robin Eames, the Bishop of Meath & Kildare, the Most Revd Richard Clarke and Fr Bernard Treacy.

 

 

Brendan Treacy, in 1973, decided to collect photographs and negatives to have a pictorial record of Nenagh. The likelihood is that but for his initiative so many photographic reproductions of Nenagh, of the distant and not so distant past, of its people, its occasions and events, would have been lost, never to have been brought to the surface again. Four books based on the collections of photographers Samuel J. Bernal, Kevin O'C Bernal, Lewy P. Gleeson, William J. Heaney, Tommy Lynch, Jack Ryan, Pat Stephens and others have been published. He is a retired County Council official.

'Nenagh Yesterday' (1993)

'Looking Back' (2005)

'Moments in Time' (2006)

'Cherished Memories of Nenagh' (2008)

 

 

Fr. Brian Treacy from just outside Kilmallock, Co. Limerick. He has been working in Kenya since 1965 and is a member of the Kiltegan Fathers, a missionary order based in County Wicklow. In 2008, his church in Londiani in North West Kenya, was caught up in the recent violence but he insists he will not be returning home as he is safe and not in immediate danger.

 

 

Byron Treacy, (Lecturer, Department of Mathematics and Computing, Cork Institute of Technology)

 

Catherine Tracey, PhD, M.B.A, MSc, RGN, RPN, of Dublin, former acting Course Co-ordinator and Lecturer in Trinity College Dublin. She has worked extensively with Hospitaller Order of St. John, where she was Director of Nursing for ten years. She also worked in St. Luke’s Hospital as Lecturer and acting course Co-ordinator in the postgraduate diploma in oncological nursing.

 

 

Catherine Treacy is Chief Executive and Registrar of Deeds and Titles of the Land

Registry and Registry of Deeds for Ireland. She is a member of the implementation group of Secretaries General and Heads of Office charged with the practical implementation and future development of the Strategic Management Initiative in the Public Service. A barrister by profession, she also holds an MSc (Management) degree from Trinity College, Dublin.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Catherine Treacy, Chief Executive and Registrar of Deeds and Titles of the Land Registry Office receives her award as the Overall Winner of the Irish eGovernment Awards 2005. L-R. Minister Tom Kitt TD, Oliver Ryan Director of Reach and Catherine Treacy Land Registry Office.

 

 

Donncha Ó Treasaigh

Is é Donncha Ó Treasaigh Príomhoide Ghaelcholáiste Luimnigh. Is ón gCeapach Mhór Donncha ó dhúchas é. D'fhreastal sé ar Scoil na mBráithre i nDún Bleisce. Bhain sé céim amach i gColáiste Mhuire gan Smál / Ollscoil Luimnigh sa Ghaeilge agus sa tíreolaíocht i 1998 agus dhein sé an tArd Dioplóma san Oideachas i Má Nuad. Bhain sé iarchéim amach san TEC ó Mhá Nuad sa 2000. Thosaigh sé ag teagasc i gColáiste Bhríde, Cluain dolCáin, Baile Átha Cliath i 1999 agus d'aistrigh sé go Scoil na nUrsulach, Dúrlas Eile, Co. Thiobraid Árainn i 2002. Tá an-cháil air de bharr a shuim agus a shaineolas i ngort Teicneolaíocht an Eolais agus Cumarsáide (TEC) agus tá sé gafa ar bhonn náisiúnta le cláracha a bhaineann le forbairt múinteoirí sa réimse seo. Is eagarthóir é ar fhoilseacháin éagsúla leis an NCTE. Le déanaí tá sé gafa leis an gComhairle Náisiúnta Curaclam agus Measúnachta (CNCN) sa ghort céanna. Is ball é de Choiste Bainistíochta Ionad Oideachais Luimnigh. Tá cúrsaí tugtha aige do mhúinteoirí bunscoile agus iar-bhunscoile tríd an ghréasán náisiúnta sin ó 1999 i leith.

Donncha

 

Donncha Ó Treasaigh is the principal of Ghaelcholáiste Luimnigh (Irish College Limerick). He is a native of Cappamore, and attended St. Fintan’s C.B.S., Doon, Co. Limerick. He graduated from Mary Immaculate College/University of Limerick in 1998 and completed the Higher Diploma in Education in NUI Maynooth.  In 2000 he graduated with a postgraduate degree in ICT from NUI Maynooth. He has earned significant acclaim in the field of ICT and has been involved at National level in several programmes relating to teachers’ professional development.  He is also an editor for the NCTE on various publications. In recent months he has been involved with the NCCA in relation to ICT in Irish education. He is a member of the Management committee of the Limerick Education Centre and has delivered courses to both Primary and Post-Primary teachers through the Education Centre network since 1999.

 

 

Fr Finbarr Tracey (SVD) Chairperson of Conference of Religious of Ireland.

 

 

 

Dr. Grainne Treacy (Department of Chemistry, NUI Maynooth).

 

 

 

Dr Joe A. Tracey, Director, National Poisons Information Centre, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9

 

Jack Treacy (Lecturer in physical chemistry, School of Chemistry, Dublin Institute of Technology)

 

 

Rev. James Power Treacy, born in Tipperary, Ireland, May, 1869. Educated at St. Vincent's College, Castleknock, County Dublin; also at the Royal University ...

Ref: Builders of Our Nation United States 1915, Page 773

Treacy, RR Rev, MGR James Power – b. Cappawhite, Co. Tipperary, 1869; educ. St Vincent’s Coll. Castlenock and Canadian Coll. Rome; priest 1892; S.T.D. 1893; Sec. To Archbishop Walsh of Toronto; Pastor of Dixie 1904; Sec. to …Canada… 1935 Toronto…

Cowley Burnand, Francis (1935) The Catholic Who's who and Yearbook - Page 498

Rt. Rev. James Power Treacy, DD, DP, PP, Pastor of St. Cecelia Church, Toronto b. Cappawhite, Tipperary, Ireland May 15, 1868 d. Toronto, Canada Nov 23, 1946.

Row BB, St. James Cemetery, Adjala Tp, Simcoe Co, Ontario, Canada

 

 

 

James O Treacy, Barrister,

Qualifications: MSc(Mgmt), Dip in Arb, M.C.I. Arb, Dip Emp Law,               

Junior Counsel: 2005           

Address: Law Library, Four Courts, Dublin 7                                   

DX: 813238                             

Telephone Numbers: 01-817 7497(direct line)                       

Mobile: 087- 679 7792           

Circuits: Dublin                     

Areas of Practice: General Practice

 

 

 

 

Rev. Liam M. Tracey, OSM, STB, SLD, Dip Mar, Dip Pastoral Theol

Professor of Liturgy (2008) at St. Patrick’s Pontifical University, Maynooth, Co. Kildare.
Tel: +353 (0)1 708 3442 E-mail: williamctracey@eircom.net

Biography:
An ordained presbyter of the Order of Friar Servants of Mary (OSM). Undergraduate studies in Dublin and Rome. Postgraduate studies at the Pontifical Liturgical Institute, Sant’ Anselmo, Rome. After working in a parish for a number of years after ordination, I returned to Rome and graduate studies in liturgy, culminating in a Doctorate. I have taught and lectured in many parts of Ireland and Australia, Ghana, Italy, UK, and the USA.
Member: Societas Liturgica, Irish Biblical Association, Maynooth Medieval and Renaissance Forum, Dublin Diocesan Liturgy Commission, Irish Commission for Liturgy, Secretary to the Editorial Board of the Irish Theological Quarterly.

Research Interests:

Method in the study of Liturgical actions

Liturgy in Early Christian Ireland

The role of liturgy in the Jewish Christian Encounter

Select Publications:

Several articles in Edward Kessler and Neil Wenborn, eds., A Dictionary of Jewish-Christian Relations, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).

Currently editing papers of a conference on Liturgy and Music in the Early Irish Church

Current Research:

The Padova School and liturgical theology

The presence of Orthodox communities in Ireland

The Order of Christian Funerals as a ministry of consolation

Courses: Introduction to Liturgy; Sacraments of Christian Initiation; Liturgy and Time; Historical Theology; Foundations of Worship; Liturgy, Sacraments and Pastoral Care; Issues in Liturgical Theology ; Sources and History of the Roman Liturgy 

Links and Other Interests: Plainchant and its performance

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ms. Mairead Tracey, Lecturer, Department of Accounting & Finance, University of Limerick.

 

 

Margaret (Pearl) Treacy, Professor of the Department of Nursing Studies, College of Life Sciences, Belfield, University College Dublin, sociologist and author.

PhD (Lond), MSc (Econ) (Lond), BA Hons (Lond), RGN.
Professor Margaret Treacy is School Head of Research and Innovation, UCD School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems and the inaugural Professor of Nursing at UCD. Formerly Head of School, she has played a key leadership role in developing nursing and midwifery education within the higher education sector in Ireland.
pearl.treacy@ucd.ie

 

Martin S.O. Treasaigh, Sqoil Iochta, Glasnevin, Dublin.

7/11/1934 Irish Times. Leaving Certificate Highest mark – Physiology and Hygiene.

 

 

The Matt Treacy Column in An Phoblacht.

 

 

 

 

Dr. Maurice N. Treacy, Director of the Biotechnology (BioT) Division, Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), the National Foundation for Excellence in Scientific Research.

 

 

 

Catholic Education Committee minute books, 1875, 1877 (Roman Catholic Archives, Melbourne).

Christian Brothers (Dublin), Educational Record, 1913-14, 1965-66;

Christian Brothers, Centenary Book, 1868-1968 (Parade College, Bundoora, Vic)

Fogarty R (1959) Catholic Education in Australia 1806-1950, vol 2. Melbourne

Keenan AI  (1976)  'Treacy, Patrick Ambrose (1834 - 1912)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 6, pp 300-301. Melbourne University Press

O’Donoghue KK (1983) Brother P.A. Treacy and the Christian Brothers in Australia and New Zealand. Melbourne.

 P. A. Treacy letters (Christian Brothers Archives, Rome)

Br. Patrick Ambrose Treacy (1834-1912), Catholic educationist, was born on 31 August 1834 at Thurles, County Tipperary, Ireland. Educated at an academy and the local Christian Brothers' school at Thurles, he excelled in mathematics. In February 1852 he joined the Congregation of Christian Brothers, Waterford. After a rigorous course he was posted to various local schools for experience and also continued his studies, including part-time courses under the aegis of the Science Museum, South Kensington. After eight years of teaching at Wexford schools he became headmaster of the Christian Brothers' schools at Carlow. Showing administrative skill he achieved high teaching efficiency and improved school buildings and equipment.

In 1868 Bishop Goold asked for a community of Christian Brothers to establish schools in Victoria. Treacy was chosen as leader, and with three confrères arrived in Melbourne in the Donald McKay in November to find the Catholic school system receiving some state aid, but in a parlous condition under the control of local parish priests. Treacy opened a primary school in Lonsdale Street in 1869. When the Education Act of 1872 set up a system of 'free, compulsory and secular' education, controlled by a state department, the Catholic hierarchy determined to retain and pay for their own school system. Undaunted by lack of money, Treacy initiated a colony-wide campaign to finance land and buildings. With generous help from colonists of all creeds a college was erected in Victoria Parade on Eastern Hill, Melbourne; opened in January 1871, its final cost was about £12,000. Having observed the deplorable state of diocesan schools during his collecting tours, Treacy advocated to the Catholic Education Committee a rise in teachers' salaries and a training college. He offered in the meantime to train as teachers senior boys selected from his own system. There were no funds for a teachers' college but his further offer to inspect metropolitan schools was accepted.

Treacy's report on the condition of the system resulted in up-to-date equipment, and under him the Brothers organized a training scheme for their aspirants. At first they were trained in the schools, but in 1897 Treacy decided to use a recent foundation at Lewisham, New South Wales, as a training centre under a qualified master of method. He also arranged for several trained Irish Brothers to migrate each year.

Treacy decided to extend the studies of the more talented of his pupils beyond the primary level and to present them for the civil service and the matriculation examinations. Small classes at Victoria Parade College and St Patrick's, Ballarat, taught by Brothers Nugent and Kennedy respectively, achieved eminent success in these examinations. In the early days not many boys sat for matriculation, but many entered both the civil service and commerce. At this time there were no Irish secondary schools; it was Treacy's initiative and dedication that shaped the pattern of the Australian Christian Brothers' higher education without regard to pupils' social or financial standing.

Gifted with great prudence and business acumen, Treacy also acceded to the requests of the hierarchy to open schools in many parts of Australia. By 1900, when he retired after thirty years as a provincial superior, he had established twenty-seven schools in the principal cities of Australia, and one in New Zealand. He was recalled to Ireland in 1900 as an assistant to the superior-general, and returned to the Australian province in 1910. Although retired, he insisted on working and was sent to Brisbane in a bid to prolong his years in a warm climate. He died on 2nd October 1912 in the Brothers' house on the corner of Gregory Terrace and Rogers Street, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. A plaque in the former office of the College indicates the death bed of this outstanding man.

 

 

 

Dr. Patrick J. Treacy was born in Garrison, Fermanagh, Northern Ireland and studied Biochemistry in Queen's University Belfast and then Medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin Ireland. He is the Medical Director of the Ailesbury Clinic, Ballsbridge Dublin and has been involved in minor surgery and cosmetic dermatology for over six years. He is also the winner of the GSK Irish Medical Professional Journalist of the Year 2003. http://www.treacystales.com/page/page/706137.htm

 

 

 

Patrick Treacy, Barrister,

Qualifications: BCL, LL.M.(Lond)

Junior Counsel: 1991         

Address: Ennisnag, Stoneyford, Co. Kilkenny.

Telephone Numbers: 01-817 4360 (direct line), 056-7728937            

Fax Numbers: 056-7728903            

Email Addresses: patrickrtreacy@eircom.net    

Circuits: South Eastern        

Areas of Practice: General Common Law, General Practice            

 

 

 

Patrick Tracey Author

Stalking Irish Madness. Random House.

Category: Family & Relationships - Health; History - Ireland; Psychology & Psychiatry - Mental Illness
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 978-0-553-80525-3 (0-553-80525-8)
Pub Date: August 26, 2008

 

 

Dr. Richard Thomas Tracy (1826-1874)

Richard Thomas Tracy M.D. physician, was born on 19 September 1826 at Limerick, Ireland, son of Thomas Tracy, gentleman, and his wife Elizabeth, née Coglan. He began his medical studies in 1845 in the Dublin School of Medicine and in 1848 graduated licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland. In December he was appointed to the Cholera Hospital, Glasgow, and in May 1849 took by examination the M.D., Glasgow, with honours. He practised briefly in King's County, Ireland, and at Reading, Berkshire, England, but becoming uncertain of his future, he decided to migrate and South Australia was chosen on the toss of a coin. On 29 April 1851 he married his cousin Fanny Louisa Sibthorpe (Marriage Registration: Richard Thomas Tracy, Limerick, 1851 Vol.6 p.610) and on 16 May they left England in the Ballangeich, to which he was surgeon. They reached Melbourne on 20 August 1851 and soon sailed for Adelaide.

Tracy began practice in North Adelaide and befriended a schoolteacher James Bonwick. On news of the discovery of gold in Victoria, they formed a small party and left for Melbourne in February 1852. They first went to Forest Creek (Castlemaine) and then to Bendigo and had some success. Quickly tiring of the life, Tracy went back to Adelaide in June but soon returned to Melbourne with his wife and infant daughter; until 1864 he practised in Fitzroy, becoming its first health officer, a magistrate, and a trustee of St Mark's Church of England. Moving to Collins Street East, he became assistant surgeon to the East Melbourne Corps of Artillery, Victorian Volunteer Force, with the relative rank of lieutenant, captain in 1867.

An original and active member of the Victorian Medical Association, Tracy later joined the rival Medico Chirurgical Society of Victoria, and helped to unite these two bodies as the Medical Society of Victoria, of which he was president in 1860. He was one of the original committee that first published in 1856 the Australian Medical Journal. He was rapidly successful in his practice and with John Maund was medical co-founder in 1856 of the Melbourne Lying-in Hospital and Infirmary for Diseases of Women and Children (later the Royal Women's Hospital), to which he was appointed honorary physician for life. His work was more and more directed to obstetrics and gynaecology, and he became one of the outstanding figures in these specialities in Australia in the nineteenth century. He was admitted to the University of Melbourne (M.D. ad eund., 1857) and in 1864 was appointed first lecturer in obstetric medicine and diseases of women and children at the university, at a salary of £100 with fees. He performed the first successful ovariotomy in Victoria in 1864 and quickly established an international reputation as a pioneer gynaecological surgeon. In 1871 he was elected an honorary fellow of the Obstetrical Society of London, a very great distinction, and two years later became a fellow of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of London. He visited Britain in 1873 and spent much time in London with the eminent surgeon Thomas Spencer Wells, whom he greatly admired.

Tracy's health, however, was deteriorating and returning to Melbourne in April 1874 he died on 7 November from an abdominal malignancy. He was survived by his wife and six of his seven daughters. He left an estate valued for probate at £24,000, including a valuable collection of books on medical and general subjects which was auctioned soon after his death. A marble bust of Tracy by Charles Summers is at the Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne.

 

Ref:

Forster FM (1965)  A case of ovariotomy instruments sent by Thomas Spencer Wells to Richard Thomas Tracy. J Obstet Gynaecol Br Commonw. 1965 Oct;72(5):810-5.
McCalman, Janet, Sex and Suffering: Women's Health and a Women's Hospital. The Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne 1856-1996, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1998.

Forster FM. (1976)  Tracy, Richard Thomas (1826-1874). In: Serle G, Ward R (eds). Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol. 6 pp.297-8. Melbourne University Press.

Forster FMC (1964) ‘Richard Thomas Tracy and his part in the history of ovariotomy’, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 4 (1964), no 3.

Forster, Frank MC.  Dr. Richard Thomas Tracy. Old Limerick Journal, No. 23 Spring 1988 – Australian edition

Pearn JH. Dr Richard Thomas Tracy MD, LRCS 1826-1874. In: A Doctor in the Garden. Brisbane: Amphion Press, 2001; 358-60.)

Sayers CE (1956) The Women's Melbourne

Tracy RT (1865) Inaugural Lecture of the Course on Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children. Melbourne: [Publisher unknown], 1865.
University of Melbourne Medical School Jubilee 1914, Ford and Son, Melbourne, 1914.

Image source: Sex and Suffering: Women's Health and a Women's Hospital p 5

 

 

Richard Thomas Tracy; M.D. Member 1857, PIV, Brunswick Street, Collingwood, Vic, Australia
Richard Thomas Tracy; M.D. Member 1858, PIV
Richard Thomas Tracy; M.D. Member 1859, PIV, Brunswick Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia
Richard Thomas Tracy; M.D. Member 1860, RSV, Brunswick Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

 

 

 

 

 

Press Notice: Her Majesty the Queen has appointed Mr Seamus Treacy QC SC to be High Court Judges in Northern Ireland. Both judges were sworn into office before the Right Honourable Sir Brian Kerr, the Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland, on 29 January 2007. Seamus Treacy was educated at Queen’s University, Belfast. He was called to the Bar of Northern Ireland in 1979 and took silk in 1999. He was called to the Bar of Ireland in September 1990 and to the Inner Bar of Ireland in 2000. Mr Treacy has practised as a Barrister since 1980, concentrating mainly in human rights, criminal law, judicial review and public inquiries. He has delivered papers and spoken at conferences on Human Rights, Criminal Law and Fair Employment issues. He is an Arbitrator and Member of the Panel of Arbitrators of the Motor Insurers’ Bureau. He is married with three children.

Irish News report: A Catholic barrister who won a landmark legal action against a promise to serve the Queen has become a High Court judge.  The appointment of Seamus Treacy comes seven years after he successfully challenged the declaration which barristers were required to make before they could join the ranks of senior barristers known as Queen’s counsel (QC).  Mr Treacy and Ben Stephens, also a QC, were sworn in as judges by the Lord Chief Justice, Sir Brian Kerr, at a private ceremony at the High Court in Belfast yesterday. Mr Treacy and another Catholic barrister, Barry Macdonald, were due to be made QCs in December 1999 but a few days before the ceremony they mounted their legal challenge. They took issue with a decision by then lord chancellor Lord Irvine that they must declare they would well and truly serve Queen Elizabeth II. The barristers claimed the declaration discriminated against them as nationalists and was an affront to their political sensibilities. The case led to them boycotting a ceremony at which several of their colleagues were sworn in as QCs. The ruling in their favour infuriated unionists but nationalists who welcomed it as giving effect to the Good Friday Agreement guaranteeing them equality in all aspects of life. A new declaration was in force when the pair were eventually sworn in as QCs on September 8 2000. Reference to the Queen had been omitted and instead they promised to well and truly serve all whom I may lawfully be called upon to serve.

 

Previous reference:

Mr Seamus Treacy QC SC

DX Number 130 NR Belfast

Bar Library Number 90562168

Call Date/Term 1979 M

Silk Date/Term 1999 M

E-mail streacy@dnet.co.uk

Qualifications Queen’s University, Belfast LL.B. (Hons): 1978. Certificate of Professional Legal Studies 1978-1979

Languages French

Areas of Particular Interest Administrative Law, Civil Liberties & Human Rights, Civil Litigation, Common Law, Constitutional Law, Criminal, Defamation, Discrimination, Employers Liability, Employment, European Law, Fraud, Judicial Review, Personal Injuries, Planning, Professional & Medical Negligence and Tort.

Membership of Other Bodies Bar of Ireland 1990. (King’s Inns). Inner Bar 2000.

 

 

 

Tony Tracy is Arts Faculty Lecturer in Film Studies at NUI, Galway, having previously worked for Miramax Productions in New York and served as Education Officer of the Irish Film Centre in Dublin. He is a regular film reviewer for RTÉ ' s Arts Show. His research includes American and European cinema history, and silent cinema.

 

 

 

Veronica Treacy, President of the Irish Hospital Pharmacists' Association, 2005

 

 

Willie Treacy, Chairman

Faughart Historical Properties Preservation Society, Shortstone, Hackballscross, Dundalk.
Phone : Willie Treacy, 042 937 7110 E-mail: info@faughart.com

http://www.faughart.com

 

 

 

Father William Treacy was born in Borris-in-Ossory, Co. Laois in 1919. In 1932, he left for St. Kieran’s College, a boarding school 30 miles from his parents’ home. It was during that time that Father Treacy decided to become a priest and in 1937, entered St. Patrick’s Seminary, Maynooth. He was ordained in June 1944. In 1945, while the Second World War was still raging, Father Treacy left for Seattle, Washington to fill a temporary vacancy at St. Alphonsus Church. In 1989, he retired after 50 years of service in Washington State. In addition to his duties within his parishes and interfaith projects, Father Treacy was active in faith-based and service organizations that provide aid to the poor as well as those in spiritual need, both at home and overseas. Today, Father Treacy continues to deliver his message of the importance of service and interfaith communication.

 

In 1960 Father Treacy was chosen to the Catholic representative to the award winning interfaith television program, Challenge, which had been organized by Rabbi Levine. The program aired for fourteen years. Their friendship sprang from those meetings and together they wrote, Wild Branch on the Olive Tree, a book about their relationship.  Rabbi Levine and Father Treacy were friends for 25 years.