Personal Life
Oliver J. Flanagan was born in Mountmellick, County Laois, on 22 May 1920. He was educated at Mountmellick Boys National School and worked as a carpenter and auctioneer.
Flanagan was secretly a Knight of Saint Columbanus and in 1978 was conferred a Knight of the Order of St. Gregory the Great by Pope John Paul I.
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