Mathias Bodkin

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

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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.]

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

Note: titles above exhaust Brit. Library holdings.

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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).

Namesake?: Bodkin, M. McDonnell (Matthias McDonnell) 1850-1933, auth. of Recollections of an Irish judge: press, bar and Parliament, by M. M'd. Bodkin (London: Hurst and Blackett 1914).

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