Gerald Griffin
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- This article is about the Irish author Gerald Griffin. For the American author, educator and professor, see Gerald R. Griffin; and for other uses of the term, see Gerald Griffin (disambiguation).
Gerald Griffin (born in Limerick, Ireland, 1803 – June 12, 1840) was an Irish novelist, poet and playwright.
The son of a brewer, he went to London in 1823 and became a reporter for one of the daily papers, and later turned to writing fiction. In 1838 he burned all of his unpublished manuscripts and joined the Catholic religious order "Congregation of Christian Brothers" in Cork, and died at their monastery.
Gerald Griffin has a street named after him in Limerick City and Cork City, Ireland.
[edit] Selected bibliography
- Griffin, D. The Life of Gerald Griffin, Vol. I (London: 1843).
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