Gerald Griffin

For the NASA flight director, see Gerald D. Griffin. For the American politician, see Gerald Griffin (politician).

Gerald Griffin
by Richard Rothwell
by Richard Rothwell
Born(1803-12-12)12 December 1803
Limerick, Ireland
Died12 June 1840(1840-06-12) (aged 36)
Cork, Ireland
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Gerald Griffin (Irish: Gearóid Ó Gríofa; 12 December 1803 – 12 June 1840) was an Irish-born 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.[1]

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