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 attending school, he worked as a journalist for local newspapers before moving to London in 1823 and starting his writing career there. Although his dramas were not very successful and received poor theater reviews , he was successful in his day with collections of short stories about life in Southern Ireland such as Holland Tide (1826) and Tales of the Munster Festivals (1827).
His novel The Collegians , which provided the basis for Dion Boucicault's 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 convent The North Monastery of the Christian Brothers .
1940 appeared one hundred years after his death, the autobiographical embossed The Dead March Past .
Web links and sources
- Literature by and about Gerald Griffin in the catalog of the German National Library
- Biography in A COMPENDIUM OF IRISH BIOGRAPHY (libraryireland.com)
- Biography in the Catholic Encyclopedia (newadvent.org)
- CHAMBER'S BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY , Edinburgh 2002, ISBN 0-550-10051-2 , p. 643
Works (selection)
- Vol 1 (The collegians)
- Vol 2 (Tales of the Munster Festivals)
- Vol 3 (Tales of the Munster Festivals)
- Vol 5 (Tales of the Jury Room)
- Vol 6 (The Duke of Monmouth)
- Vol 7: Tales of the five senses
- Vol 8 (Poetical works and Tragedy of Gisippus)
- Vol 9: The invasion.
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| SURNAME | Griffin, Gerald |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Irish playwright and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 12, 1803 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Limerick , County Limerick |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 12, 1840 |
| Place of death | The North Monastery, Cork , County Cork |