 Hugh Kennedy (later Chief Justice of the Irish Free State) was also a lifelong friend.As Auditor of the L & H he tried to prevent James Joyce from reading a paper praising Ibsen (Clery had asserted that "the effect of Henrik Ibsen is evil") but Joyce succeeded in reading it after he argued his case with the college president["James Joyce, Occasional, Critical and Political Writing," Oxford World's Classics ed.Kevin Barry].