Gerald Griffin

Gerald Griffin ( born December 12, 1803 in Limerick, County Limerick, † June 12, 1840 in The North Monastery, Cork, County Cork) was an Irish playwright and writer.

Life

After school he worked as a journalist for local newspapers before he went in 1823 to London and began his writing career. However, his dramas were indeed very successful and got bad theater reviews, but he had his time success with collections of short stories about life in Southern Ireland as Holland Tide ( 1826) and Tales of the Munster Festivals ( 1827).

His novel, The Collegians, which provided the basis for Dion Boucicault drama The Colleen Bawn (1860 ), he published anonymously in 1829. Other works were The Rivals (1829 ), The Christian physiologist ( 1830) and The Invasion (1832 ).

In 1838 he burned all his manuscripts and went up to his death in the monastery The North Monastery Christian Brothers.

1940 appeared one hundred years after his death, the autobiographical The Dead March Past.

External links and sources

• Works by or about Gerald Griffin in the catalog that German national library
• A COMPENDIUM OF IRISH in Biography BIOGRAPHY ( libraryireland.com )
• Biography in the Catholic Encyclopedia ( newadvent.org )
• CHAMBER 'S BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, Edinburgh 2002, ISBN 0-550-10051-2, p 643

• Author
• Literature (19th century)
• Literature ( English )
• Drama
• Journalist
• Irishman
• Born in 1803
• Died in 1840
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