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Gerald Griffin

Irish-born novelist, poet and playwright (1803 – 1840), author of the novel The Collegians

  • Fame42.4
  • Momentum8.6
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Lived 1803–1840, aged 37
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    1803–1840
    Aged 37
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Updated 2026-07-18

Gerald Griffin was an Irish-born novelist, poet and playwright. His novel The Collegians was the basis of Dion Boucicault's play The Colleen Bawn. Feeling he was "wasting his time" writing fiction, he joined the Christian Brothers, a Catholic religious congregation founded by Edmund Ignatius Rice to teach the children of the poor.

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Momentum8.6
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Completeness60.0
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