Remembering: Fr. Brendan McGee

As a 16-year-old schoolboy he famously showed up at St. Malachy’s College for class on the morning after the devastating blitz of April 1941. It was with great sadness that the College community heard of the death of Fr Brendan McGee on 9th February in Nazareth Care Home at the age of 96. 

He was described by Fr Eugene O’Neill, Administrator of St. Patrick’s as a ‘fearless priest’ and a ‘fountain of wisdom’. Always noted for his prodigious memory, Fr Brendan was a former Dean of the Cathedral. He was ordained in 1950 and will be remembered with gratitude and affection in several Belfast parishes and in Portaferry. 

In recent years, as an assisting curate, he welcomed students from his ‘alma mater’ attending the annual St. Malachy’s Day Mass at St. Patrick’s, never part of the main event but always busy with preparations in the sacristy. 

Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.