Gerald Griffin
(1803-1840)
Died aged c. 37
Wikidata WikipediaGerald Griffin (Irish: Gearóid Ó Gríofa; 12 December 1803 – 12 June 1840) was an Irish novelist, poet and playwright. His novel The Collegians was the basis of Dion Boucicault's play The Colleen Bawn. Feeling he was "wasting his time" writing fiction, he joined the Christian Brothers, a Catholic religious congregation founded by Edmund Ignatius Rice to teach the children of the poor.
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Gerald Griffin poet & novelist was born in the house that stood near here
St. Augustine Place, Englishtown, Limerick, Ireland where they was born near (1803)