Joseph Guinan

Rev. Canon Joseph Guinan (1863–1932) was an Irish Roman Catholic priest, teacher and novelist.[1]

Joseph Guinan
Born1863 (1863)
King's County, Ireland
Died1932 (aged 68–69)
EducationSt. Mel's College
Occupation(s)Clergyman, writer

Biography

Joseph Guinan was born in King's County (now County Offaly) in 1863.[2] He was educated at St. Mel's College, Longford, before going to St. Patrick's College, Maynooth to train as a priest. He was ordained by Dr. Batholmew Woodcock for the Diocese of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise. He served as a curate in Liverpool,[3] returning to Ireland to teach English, Religion and Mathematics in St. Mel's College. Due to ill health he left teaching, and he was appointed parish priest of Bornacoola, County Leitrim, in 1910. He contributed the article on Henry Essex Edgeworth to the Catholic Encyclopedia.[2] While in Dromod, County Longford in 1920 he was made a Canon of the Catholic Church.

Works
  • The Soggarth Aroon by Rev. Joseph Guinan, Published by The Talbot Press Limited (1944)[4]
  • Scenes and Sketches in an Irish Parish or Priest and People in Doon by Rev. Joseph Guinan, Published by Dublin, Gill, Dublin (1910).
  • The Moores of Glynn by Rev. Joseph Guinan. Published by Washbourne/Gill, London/Dublin (1907)
  • Donal Kenny by Rev. Joseph Guinan, R. & T. Washbourne, Ltd., London, 1910.

References
  1. Joseph Guinan by Maurice Cronin, RIA/Cambridge Dictionary of Irish Biography
  2. The Catholic Encyclopedia and its Makers. The Encyclopedia Press. 1917. p. 70. Retrieved 9 June 2021 – via archive.org.
  3. Canon Joseph Guinan www.ricorso.net
  4. Rev. Joseph Guinan Oxford Reference
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