Thom's Irish Who's Who/Macsweeney, Rev. Patrick

MACSWEENEY, Rev. Patrick, M.A. (N.U.I.); Professor of English Literature, St. Patrick's College, Maynooth. Educ.: Christian Schools, North Richmond Street, Dublin; Holy Cross College, Clonliffe, Dublin; University College, Dublin, formerly Lecturer on English and French Literature in University College, Dublin, and Loreto College, Dublin: late Professor Holy Cross College, Clonliffe, Dublin; has acted as Examiner in English to Intermediate Board of Education, Ireland; and is an Examiner in English, Irish, and Irish History to the National University of Ireland; has devoted his attention chiefly to the study of English literature and middle Irish saga. Pubns.: Love of Nature in English Poetry; The Martial Career of Conghal—a middle Irish saga, edited and translated with introduction, etc., for Irish Texts Society; A Group of Nation-Builders (C. T. Soc., Ireland); Editor of The Irish Ecclesiastical Record; has contributed papers on Irish Poets of the eighteenth century and other articles to various periodicals; one of the contributors to Catholic Encyclopaedia; Corresponding Member of the Society Archæologique de France: son of J. J. MacSweeney, of Dublin: b. 1873. Res.: St. Patrick's College, Maynooth, Co. Kildare.