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Timolin (St. Mullins) Church of Ireland. Courtesy Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Rev. Nicholas Brown or Browne (?1699-1734) was an Irish poet.

Life[]

Youth and education[]

Brown was born in Rosgarn, co. Fermanagh,[1] the son of a clergyman of the same name.[2] Nicholas Brown senior served from 1696 to 1704 as prebendary of Findonagh, and from 1704 to 1708 as rector of Dromore and Rossory and prebendary of Kilskeery and Magheracross, all in Fermanagh.[1]

The son was educated by a Mr. Clarke of Walkfield, England.[1]

He entered Trinity College, Dublin on 7 May 1716, earmomg a B.A. in 1720 and an M.A. in 1729.[1]

Career[]

Nicholas Brown junior married Elizabeth Donlevy of Donnybrook, co. Dublin, and was made vicar of Timolin in the diocese of Leighlin.[1]

He died in 1734. No details are known of his mother, or of any children.[1]

Writing[]

2 anonymous poems were published in Dublin (1722), and republished (1724) by Matthew Concanen in an anthology, where they are credited to Nicholas Brown. ‘The fire’ deals with student life in TCD; the better-known ‘The north country wedding’ is a long mock-heroic poem in blank verse, describing a rural Ulster wedding. These poems are attributed by D.J. O'Donoghue to the elder Nicholas Brown, but it seems much more likely that they were written by the younger man.[1]

Publications[]

  • The North-Country Wedding / The Fire: Two poems in blank verse. Dublin: A. Rhames, for J. Hyde, 1722.[3]

See also[]

References[]

  • Linde Lunney, "Browne, Nicholas," Dictionary of Irish Biography, October 2009. Web, Jul. 15, 2022.

Notes[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Lunney (2009).
  2. Nicholas Brown (1699 ca.-1734), English Poetry, 1579-1830, Center for Applied Technologies in the Humanities, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University. Web, May 3, 2016.
  3. Search results = ti:The Fire, au:Nicholas Brown, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, May 3, 2016.

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