Mathias Bodkin [S.J.]

Life
[1896-?]; a Jesuit associated with Clongowes Wood College; author of Borrowed Days [q.d.], a novel of Clongowes Wood; also Floodtide: A Story of Cluan College (1927) on the same subject; contrib. to Studies, the Irish monthly review; also issued Blessed Bernadette, a pamphlet in the Irish Messenger series.

 

Works
  • The port of tears : the life of Father John Sullivan, S.J.  (Dublin:Clonmore & Reynolds [ 1954]), 114pp. [1 lf. of pls.; port.]
  • Blessed Bernadette (Dublin: Irish Messenger 1929) [pamph.]

 

References
Belfast Public Library holds M. Bodkin, The Treasures of the Mountain [1939], novel for boys.

Note: above titles exhaust Brit. Library holdings.

 

Notes
Floodtide: A Story of Cluan College (1927) is quoted in Peter Costello, Clongowes Wood: the History of Clongowes Wood College, 1814-1989 (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1989).

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