Born in
County Clare in 1858, Hogan was educated in Ennis, before completing his studies at
St. Sulpice, Paris and in the
University of Freiburg. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1882 and served for three years as a curate in
Birr, County Offaly. and pro-vice chancellor of the newly constituted
National University of Ireland. Dr. Hogan was nephew of the Very Rev.
John Baptist Hogan, S.S., D.D., a member of the
Sulpician order who was Rector of
St. John's Seminary, Boston. Monsignor Hogan resigned as president of Maynooth in October 1918 and died in Dublin on 24 November 1918. He was succeeded in Maynooth by his vice president Monsignor
James MacCaffrey. He was president during the events of Easter Week 1916. In 2016 centenary events brought to light contemporary evidence of the attitude of both seminary staff and students to the
Easter Rising. ==Works==