Bartholomew Esmonde

Bartholomew Esmonde (1789–1862) was an Irish Jesuit priest, educator, and amateur architect.

He was educated at the Jesuit novitiate at Stonyhurst College, England and studied philosophy and theology in Palermo, Italy.

In conjunction with two of his brethren, Paul Ferley and Charles Aylmer, he compiled A short Explanation of the Principal Articles of the Catholic Faith, and The Devout Christian's Daily Companion, being a Selection of Pious Exercises for the use of Catholics.

He lived in Rome from 1842, where he did much of the design of the Gardiner St. church, and then Malta, returning to Ireland in 1850.

[4] A portrait of him is in the Jesuits building in Gardner Street, also a monument to him in St. Michaels Church, Gorey, both commissioned and gifted by his brother, Sir Thomas Esmonde.