Richard Baptist O'Brien
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Richard Baptist O'Brien (1809 – 1885) was an Irish Roman Catholic priest, author and home ruler.
[edit] Biography
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. As a writer he contributed to the The Irish Catholic Magazine, The Irish Monthly and The Nation. In 1849 he founded the Catholic Young Men’s Society in order to help Catholics advance their area of religious interests. He also wrote novels, often portraying moral dilemmas. O'Brien was president of Saint Mary's College, Canada from 1840-45.[1]
[edit] External links
- Richard Baptist O'Brien in 'Miscellaneous Limerick People' file at Limerick City Library, Ireland
- O'Brien at St. Mary's College, Canada
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