Thom's Irish Who's Who/Coffey, Rev. Peter

COFFEY, Rev. Peter, Ph.D., S.T.L., B.C.L.: b. Co. Meath, 1876. Educ.: Diocesan Seminary, Navan, and Maynooth: ordained priest, 1900; studied Philosophy at Louvain (D.Ph., 1905); Professor of Logic and Metaphysics, Maynooth College. Translated De Wulf's Scholasticism Old and New, and History of Medieval Philosophy. Author of The Science of Logic; Epistemology; Ontology Contributor to I. E. Record; Irish Theological Quarterly; Catholic Encyclopedia; Catholic Bulletin, etc; on philosophical, social, and economic questions; President of the Catholic Total Abstinence Federation of Ireland (since 1914). Res.: Maynooth College, Ireland.