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Fr. Míceál O’Neill, O.Carm
 I am a native of Galway, son of a Tipperary father
and a Mayo mother. I came to know the Carmelites
when my family moved lock, stock and barrel to
Dublin and I became a pupil in Terenure College.
That led me to join the Carmelite Order in 1970 and
after a number of years of study in Rome I was ordained
in 1977 in Terenure College. I taught there for the next
four years and then went to Peru. After four unforgettable
years in Peru I returned to Rome to work for a doctorate. Not long after
finishing that I was elected to the General Council of the Order. On
completing my term I returned to Ireland and worked in the Parish of
Knocklyon. After that came a return to Terenure College where I remained
until my appointment as Prior of the Community in Kinsale. Over the years
I have been involved a lot in the work of promotion of the Carmelite Order’s
commitment to justice and peace, and I have worked on the spirituality that
lies behind that commitment.
Fr. Stan Hession, O.Carm
I am the son of a father from Tuam, Co. Galway and a  mother from
Blessington, Co. Wicklow. I received my education at the
Blessington N.S., Terenure College, U.C.D. and what was
then Milltown Park. I joined the Carmelite Order in 1954 by
entering the novitiate in Kinsale and was ordained in
Clonliffe College along with a number of other Carmelites
in 1963. My first assignment was in Zimbabwe,
then called Rhodesia. There I was involved in a number of
different, mainly to do with administration: school, seminary
formation, hospital and Third Order Chaplaincy. In 1976 at
the time of the war of independence I returned to Ireland.
In the years since then I have served as part of the team of
the Carmelite Conference Centre in Gort Muire in Dublin, and as chaplain in
St. James’s Hospital before pitching my tent in Kinsale.
Fr. Frank McAleese, O.Carm
 I was born in Airdrie in Scotland in 1955. Following
studies in business and management in Hamilton, I
worked as a management trainee with St. Cuthbert’s
Co-op in Edinburgh and later continued the same
kind of work in Glascow. I spent twelve years as a
Local Government Official in the Housing Department of
Glascow City Council. I came to know the Carmelites
through the parish of St. Mary’s in Abercrombie Street,
then under the care of the Carmelite Order which led in 1989 to my entering
the novitiate in Kinsale. On completing my initial studies for the priesthood
I obtained a Masters Degree in Ecumenics at the Irish School of Ecumenics
in the year prior to my ordination to the priesthood in 1997. Since that time
I have worked in hospital ministry, prison ministry and parish ministry before
coming to Kinsale in 2006.
Fr. Mariusz Placek, O.Carm
  I was born in Poland on the 4th of November 1973 in the
town of Pilzno in the Southern part of our country. It is
approximately 100 kilometers from the city of Krakow.
There is a Carmelite Friary in my home town with a little
shrine dedicated to Our Lady of Consolation. It was here
that I learned about Our Lady of Mount Carmel. This was the
beginning of my journey into the Carmelite Order.
I joined the Order in 1996 and was professed in 1997. I was
ordained to the priesthood in 2002.
Since then I worked for two years in a rural parish in Eastern Poland with a
Marian shrine which attracted large crowds in summer. Here I taught religion
in school and worked with young people. During this time I also studied
Spirituality on a part-time basis at the Catholic University of Lublin.
Afterwards I worked in the Carmelite parish of Baborow in Silesia in Western
Poland for three years doing similar work. Here I continued my studies,
specialising in religious formation. After this, I was asked to go to our main
Carmelite house in Krakow, where I worked with local families.
In February 2008 I came to Ireland probably because as a Carmelite student
I spent three years learning English.
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