Gerald Griffin's Grave, County Cork

GERALD GRIFFIN'S GRAVE

From Atlas and Cyclopedia of Ireland (1900)

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CEMETERY OF THE CHRISTIAN BROTHERS, AND GRAVE OF GERALD GRIFFIN.--The cemetery of the Christian Brothers of the North Cork Monastery, Fair Hill, will be always a place of pilgrimage to the lover of literature who may chance to visit the vicinity. There, amid a number of graves bearing on modest headstones the names of the saintly dead, lie the remains of Gerald Griffin, one of the most eminent writers and purest characters which his country possesses. His name in religion--Brother Joseph--is graven on the stone beneath which repose the ashes of the author of "The Collegians." As poet and novelist, he will always hold a front place in Irish literature. Having after many vicissitudes and sufferings achieved fame and the reward it brings, he renounced the world, and became an humble teacher as a member of the Christian Brotherhood of Cork. He died in 1840, aged 38 years.

Gerald Griffin's Grave, County Cork

Gerald Griffin's Grave

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