Richard Baptist O'Brien
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Richard Baptist O'Brien (1809–1885) was an Irish Roman Catholic priest, author and advocate of Irish home rule.
Biography
[edit]Born in Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary O'Brien became a Home Ruler nationalist and an anti-liberal ultramontanist fashioned after Pope Pius IX. At the age of two when his father died his mother sold the family grocery business and they moved to Limerick. He was educated locally at St. Marys in Limerick, and at Knockbeg college, Carlow. He studied for the priesthood in Maynooth College graduating with distinction, he was ordained then in 1839.
In 1849 he founded the Catholic Young Men's Society in order to help Catholics advance their area of religious interests. O'Brien was president of Saint Mary's College, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada from 1840–45.[1]
He taught for a time in All Hallows College, Dublin,[2] initially from 1845-47 teaching English and Rrench, and returning to teach in All Hallows from 1853 until 1858, his nephew Edward Joseph Hannan who trained as a priest in All Hallows during his second period there, served as a priest in Scotland, founding Hibernian F.C. along with members of the local CYMS.
He is buried in Newcastle West.
Works
[edit]As a writer O'Brien contributed to The Irish Catholic Magazine, the Irish Monthly and The Nation. He also wrote novels, often portraying moral dilemmas.
References
[edit]- ^ [1] O'Brien at Ricorso.
- ^ Founder of Catholic Young Men's Society www.limerickcity.ie
External links
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- 1809 births
- 1885 deaths
- 19th-century Canadian Roman Catholic priests
- Irish emigrants to Canada
- Irish journalists
- 19th-century Irish Roman Catholic priests
- Alumni of St Patrick's College, Maynooth
- People from Carrick-on-Suir
- Roman Catholic writers
- 19th-century journalists
- Irish male journalists
- Irish male novelists
- 19th-century Irish novelists
- 19th-century male writers
- Writers from County Tipperary
- Christian clergy from County Tipperary
- Irish Roman Catholic clergy stubs