C. P. Meehan

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Father Charles Patrick Meehan (July 12, 1812 – March 14, 1890), an Irish-Catholic priest, was friend and confessor to Irish poet James Clarence Mangan and encouraged him to write his autobiography. He wrote poetry for The Nation (Irish newspaper), a radical nationalist newspaper, under the pen-name 'Clericus'. He also published a biography of Mangan in 1884, 35 years after the poet's death from cholera in 1849.

In July, 1860, James Duffy founded the Hibernian Magazine, edited by Martin Haverty, a distinguished alumnus of the Irish College, Rome. It was a monthly, price eight pence, and ran for two years. The contributors included Father C. P. Meehan, Prof. Kavanagh, Denis Florence MacCarthy, Dr. O'Donovan, William Carleton, Thomas D'Arcy McGee, and William John Fitzpatrick, and the articles were all signed. It ceased after two years, but a second series was started in 1862, with Father Meehan as editor, which extended to six volumes and ended in June, 1865.

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• This article incorporates text from the entry Charles Patrick Meehan in the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.