Stephen Brown (Jesuit)

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Stephen James Meridith Brown (born 24 September 1881 in Holywood, County Down, Ireland, died 8 May 1962, in Kilcrony, Wicklow, Ireland) was an Irish Catholic Jesuit priest, writer, bibliographer and librarian. He founded the Central Catholic Library (Irish : Leabharlann an Chreidimh) in Dublin.

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Life

Although he was born in County Down, Stephen Brown spent his early years in Naas, County Kildare, where his father was a solicitor and Chairman of Kildare County Council (1899–1911). [1]

He was educated at Clongowes Wood College and entered the Jesuit noviceship in 1897. He studied philosophy in Jersey, and was ordained in 1914.

He initially taught at Maynooth College, and afterwards established the post-graduate school in librarianship at University College Dublin, an interest he maintained for some 24 years. In 1922 he set up the Central Catholic Library, where he later served as director. [2] He served on the Hospital Library Council and as Director of the Academy of Christian Art. [1] In 1953 he received a certificate of Honorary Fellowship from the Library Association of Ireland, for his contribution to the development of the library profession in Ireland.

While involved with the Central Catholic Library and other, mainly library-based, activities, he was also a prolific writer of books, bibliographies and articles of all kinds up to the end of his life. [1]

In September 1960, Fr Brown became incapacitated as the result of a serious road accident in London. A fractured skull and rib injuries forced him to spend four months in the Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth in Grove End Road in London. He returned to Dublin but never recovered from his injuries. He died in Milltown, Dublin.

Works by Stephen Brown

The following is a small selection of the many works by Stephen Brown, S.J.:

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Boylan, Henry (1998). A Dictionary of Irish Biography, 3rd Edition. Dublin: Gill and MacMillan. p. 41. ISBN   0-7171-2945-4.
  2. ↑ Brown, Stephen J. (1932). The Central Catholic Library: The first ten years of an Irish enterprise. Dublin: Messenger. p. 10.

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