Eamonn was a very gentle man and a deeply loved member of the community at Myross Wood where he lived since his return from the South Sea mission in Papua New Guinea.

Edmond (Eamonn) McSweeney, M.S.C., was born on 8^th December, 1920, in Toremore, Kilcummin, Killarney, Co. Kerry. He was the Son of Edmond and Margaret and was the sixth child in a family of four boys and three girls.

He received his primary education at Kilcummin National School and his secondary education at Sacred Heart College, Cork.

Following in the footsteps of his older brother, Patrick, he entered the novitiate of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart on 20^th September, 1939, in Bree, Belgium, and made his first profession of vows on 21' September, 1940, in Myrtieville, Crosshaven, Co. Cork. He was ordained to the priesthood on ₉th June, 1946, at Moyne Park, Ballyglunin, Co. Galway.

Following on his ordination, he volunteered for the MSC mission in Papua New Guinea and served in the Rabaul mission for forty four years.

He returned to Ireland in 1991 to the Myross Wood Community in West Cork and he served as Chaplain to the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart until they moved away from Glandore.

Since then he has continued as a member of the community in Myross Wood.

Eamonn's funeral took place in the MSC Church on the Western Road in Cork City on Saturday 12th June 2010.

May he rest in peace.