Patrick joseph hartigan biography for kids

Australian Roman Catholic priest, educator, author and poet

MonsignorPatrick Joseph Hartigan (13 October 1878 – 27 December 1952) was an Australian Roman Catholicpriest, educator, author and poet, writing under the name John O'Brien.

Life

Born at Yass, New South Wales Patrick Joseph Hartigan studied at St Patrick's Seminary, Manly and St Patrick's College, Goulburn.^[1][2]

His poetry was very popular in Australia and was well received in Ireland and the United States.

Hartigan died in Lewisham, an inner suburb of Sydney, in 1952.

Works

Hartigan wrote under the pseudonym "John O'Brien." His verse celebrated the lives and mores of the outback pastoral folk he ministered to as a peripatetic curate in the southern New South Wales and Riverina towns of Thurgoona, Berrigan and Narrandera, in the first two decades of the 20th century.^[3][4]

The refrain We'll all be rooned from his poem Said Hanrahan has