Background
He was born, youngest of seven children, in Kilraine in Glenties, County Donegal, on 14 September 1910.
He was born, youngest of seven children, in Kilraine in Glenties, County Donegal, on 14 September 1910.
He attended Glenties National School before going to Saint Eunan"s College, Letterkenny.
In 1930, he went on to Saint Patrick"s College, Maynooth to study for the priesthood. He was ordained on 20 June 1937. He served as a priest in London during the Blitz, in Wandsworth and in Kent, and back in Donegal on Tory Island from 1947.
In 1951, French
McDyer was appointed to Glencolmcille in the Donegal Gaeltacht, where he developed community facilities (at the time the area did not have electricity) and supported initiatives to stop the decline of the area, by developing local industries and the folk village and museum. He was a Canon of Church at the time of his retirement in 1986. He died in his sleep the following year.