Seoirse Brún (George Browne), was an
Irish scribe
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The work of scribes can involve copying manuscripts and other texts as well as ...
, fl. 1876. Brún, a native of Creggduff,
Annaghdown
Annaghdown (, ) is a civil parish in County Galway, Ireland. It lies around Annaghdown Bay, an inlet of Lough Corrib. Villages in the civil parish include Corrandulla, Cloonboo, Corrandrum and Annaghdown, a census settlement in the east of th ...
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County Galway
County Galway ( ; ) is a Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is in the Northern and Western Region, taking up the south of the Provinces of Ireland, province of Connacht. The county population was 276,451 at the 20 ...
, is known only from a manuscript called RBÉ F006. It contains the following note:
''George Browne Cregg Duff This Book/Belongs to him For Certain No Other Person/in This Locality can claim on This/Book but him Alone When he is Dead/and his bones are rotten This Little Book/Will tell his Name when he is quite/Forgotten Given under My ha this 18th Day of Oct 1876 - George Browne/Cregg Duff Annadown/County of Galway Ireland, The European Iliad
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The
Annaghdown
Annaghdown (, ) is a civil parish in County Galway, Ireland. It lies around Annaghdown Bay, an inlet of Lough Corrib. Villages in the civil parish include Corrandulla, Cloonboo, Corrandrum and Annaghdown, a census settlement in the east of th ...
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Headford
Headford () is a small town in County Galway, located 26 km north of Galway city in the west of Ireland. It is an angling centre for the eastern shore of Lough Corrib, and Greenfields, approximately 6.5 km west of the town, is its bo ...
has Irish speakers as of 2009. He may have been descended from one of
The Tribes of Galway
The Tribes of Galway () were 14 merchant families who dominated the political, commercial and social life of the city of Galway in western Ireland between the mid-13th and late 19th centuries. They were the families of Athy, Blake, Bodkin, Brown ...
, the family Browne.
See also
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Sir Dominick Browne
Sir Dominick Browne was an Irish merchant and landowner, – .
Biography
Browne was the eldest of three sons of Geoffrey Browne, alderman of Galway (died 1608), a member of the Tribes of Galway.
He was of age and married at the time of his fat ...
,
M.P., ca. 1585?-ca. 1656.
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Mary Bonaventure Browne
Mother Mary Bonaventure Browne (born after 1610, died after 1670) was a Poor Clare nun, abbess, and Irish historian.
Background
A daughter of Andrew Browne fitz Oliver, a wealthy merchant and a member of The Tribes of Galway. She was a niece o ...
,
Poor Clare
The Poor Clares, officially the Order of Saint Clare (Latin: ''Ordo Sanctae Clarae''), originally referred to as the Order of Poor Ladies, and also known as the Clarisses or Clarissines, the Minoresses, the Franciscan Clarist Order, and the Sec ...
and
historian
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, born after 1610, died after 1670.
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Geoffrey Browne, M.P., died 1668.
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Dominick Browne,
Mayor of Galway
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, 1688-1689.
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Michael Browne (1895–1980),
Bishop of Galway and Kilmacduagh from 1937 to 1976.
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Dominick Browne, 1st Baron Oranmore and Browne
Dominick Browne, 1st Baron Oranmore and Browne Privy Council of Ireland, PC (28 May 1787 – 30 January 1860), was an Irish people, Irish politician.
Browne was the son of Dominick Geoffrey Browne and his wife Margaret. She was the daughter of th ...
(1787–1860),
politician
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.
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Séamus de Brún (1911–2003),
teacher
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and
senator
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*
Ken Bruen (born 1951),
noir crime writer.
References
*''Scríobhaithe Lámhscríbhinní Gaeilge I nGaillimh 1700-1900'', William Mahon, in "Galway:History and Society", 1996
*''The Tribes of Galway'', Adrian James Martyn, Galway, 2001
Writers from County Galway
19th-century Irish people
Irish-language writers
Irish scribes
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