Patrick Joseph Hartigan

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Cover of 1968 edition of Hartigan's Around The Boree Log anthology first published 1921

Monsignor Patrick Joseph Hartigan (13 October 1878 – 27 December 1952) was an Australian Roman Catholic priest, educator, author and poet.

Biography

Born at Yass, New South Wales Patrick Joseph Hartigan studied at St Patrick's Seminary, Manly and St Patrick's College, Goulburn ^[1]

His poetry was very popular in Australia and was well received in Ireland and the United States.

Hartigan died in Lewisham, an inner suburb of Sydney in 1952.

Works

Hartigan wrote under the pseudonym "John O'Brien." His verse celebrated the lives and mores of the outback pastoral folk he ministered as a peripatetic curate to the southern New South Wales and Riverina towns of Thurgoona, Berrigan and Narrandera, in the first two decades of the 20th century.

The refrain We'll all be rooned from his poem Said Hanrahan has entered colloquial Australian English as a jocular response to any prediction of dire consequences arising, particularly, from events outside the interlocutor's control. <ref name='O'Dwyer'> O’Dwyer, Tim. ""We'll All Be Rooned", said Hanrahan". Lawyers Conveyancing. Retrieved 2009-03-30. Echos of the well-known poem about Irish-Catholic-bush-pessimist Hanrahan* came out of the Australian Capital Territory </ref>

Legacy

A John O'Brien Festival is held annually in Narrandera.^[2]

References

↑ Australian National University, "Patrick Joseph Hartigan", Australian Dictionary of Biography Online, 12 May 2011
↑ "John O'Brien Festival". Narrandera Shire Council. 2011. Retrieved 2011-05-12.

External links

- Brief biography and selection of Hartigan's bush poetry
John O'Brien's Poetry - brief biography and three poems
Narrandera's John O'Brien Festival
ADB article

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 67561087 LCCN: n82125718 ISNI: 0000 0003 6850 0776 GND: 129990205

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Name	Hartigan, Patrick Joseph
Alternative names
Short description	Australian poet
Date of birth	13 October 1878
Place of birth
Date of death	27 December 1952
Place of death

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