Life
1892-1979 [monsignor; lit. pseud. ’Joseph Brady”]; b. Grangemockler, Co. Tipperary, , br. of Padraig de Brún [q.v.] and Cardinal Michael Browne; became the parish priest of Ballymore Eustace, Co. Kildare; author of The Big Sycamore (1958), a novel set in Tipperary, with epigraph-poem by Máire MacEntee [viz., Mac an tSaoi; q.v.]; also In Monavalla (1963), set in Co. Wicklow.
Works
Prelude to Victory (Dublin: James Duffy 1950); The Big Sycamore (Dublin: M. H. Gill & Sons 1958), 279pp.; In Monavalla (Dublin:
Gill 1963), 325pp.; From a Presbytery Window (Dublin: Talbot 1971), ill. by Eileen Couhlan.
References
Cathach Books (No. 12) lists Monsignor Browne’s [otherwise de Brún] copy of In Monavalla (1963).
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