Brother George Fallon RIP

Brother George Fallon, aged ninety-three, died peacefully at noon on Monday 1 September 2025 in Cherryfield Lodge. He was surrounded by family, Jesuit community members, and the Cherryfield team.

Brother Fallon spent much of his Jesuit life in educational works in Ireland, especially as staff manager and as treasurer, including in Mungret College, Gonzaga College, and Belvedere College. He also spent five years working in the General Curia in Rome and two further years as treasurer in the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Jerusalem.

Hi funeral Mass was held in Gonzaga College SJ, Sandford Road, Ranelagh, Dublin 6 at 11.00am on Thursday 4 September. In his homily Fr Leonard Moloney SJ described Br George as “a gift in any community, so amenable, so gracious, so grateful.” The former Irish Provincial said Br George enriched all the communities he lived in not just because of his pleasant good nature but because of his generosity and thoughtfulness.

Saying that George “had gone home to the God he loved,” Fr Leonard added, “And he’s there because that is what he wanted in his deepest, deep- down self… In the depths of his heart he had heard what Isaiah tells us in our first reading today: George I created and formed you and I honour and love you. George knew and believed this.”

Fr Leonard also shared an abiding image of Br George throughout his life and in Milltown Park, he was “the man you would most likely find before the Blessed Sacrament in the chapel…Keep that image: George before the tabernacle, in reverential prayer and conversation with his God and Lord… He loved God, loved the person of Jesus Christ and also loved his neighbour and creation… The story told by the rabbi about the question God will ask each of us at the heavenly gates -‘Did you enjoy my creation?’ could only be answered by George with a loud ‘yes’!”

Family, friends and fellow Jesuits in the congregation were also reminded how Br George was full of ”the fullness of life, including sport and music. “He loved to sing,” said Fr Leonard, “And what a privilege to have soprano Cecilia Byrne accompanied by Frank O’Donnell here today, to mirror his love of music, both song and instrument.”

In conclusion Fr Moloney said that his brother Jesuit as a Jesuit brother was “humble and quietly magnificent… centered on God, and helping all of us to be do the same.”

After this final farewell, Brother George was laid to rest in the Jesuit plot in Glasnevin cemetery.

Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam dílis.