Rev James O'Brien CSsR

Title:

Rev

First Name:

James

Middle Names:

Preferred Name:

Surname:

O'Brien

Order:

CSsR

Date of Birth:

1857

Place of Birth:

Ballybricken, Kilmallock

Country of Birth:

Ireland

Date of Ordination:

1882

Place of Ordination:

Country of Ordination:

Ireland

Ordination Diocese:

Seminary:

Date of Death:

29-Jun-1951

Place of Death:

Dundalk, Co Louth

Country of Death:

Ireland

Date of Burial:

02-Jul-1951

Place of Burial:

Country of Burial:

Ireland

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Australia ?18881908Fr T.J. Linane, From Abel to Zundolovich, Vol. 1, 1979, p 54
New Zealand ?19081910Fr T.J. Linane, From Abel to Zundolovich, Vol. 1, 1979, p 54
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Biographical Notes

Waratah, NSW; Ballarat, Vic

Irish Press, Dublin, 30 June 1951, p 3:
O'Brien (Dundalk)—On June 29, 1951, at St. Joseph's Dundalk, Rev. James O'Brien, C.SS.R. Office and Mass at 11 o'c. on Monday, July 2.
(p 7) Rev. J. O'Brien, C.SS.R
Rev. James O'Brien, C.SS.R., who has died in the Redemptorist Monastery, Dundalk, aged 94, was the oldest member of the Irish Province. A native of Ballybricken, Kilmallock he was ordained in 1882 and shortly afterwards went to the Redemptorist mission in Australia. He returned to Ireland in 1910. He had been an invalid for some years.

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Rev. J. O'Brien C.SS.R., Irish Independent, Dublin, 30 June 1951, p 3:
The death has occurred of Rev. James O'Brien, C.SS.R., St. Joseph's, Dundalk, who, aged 94, was the oldest member of the Redemptorist Congregation. Born in Ballybricken, Kilmallock, he was ordained in 1882 and left for missionary work in Australia shortly after his ordination. He remained there until 1910 when he returned to Ireland and was attached to St. Joseph's. After a few years of missionary work in Ireland his health broke down and he was an invalid for many years.

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T.W. Campbell, The Priests of the Diocese of Armidale: A Necrology, Braddon ACT, 2005:
O'Brien, James (CSsR)

Listed simply as 'O'Brien', with no Christian name, in E J Doody, Acta et Statuta 1951, Appendix VI, Obituary List, in the section headed 'supplementary list of priests who have also worked in the diocese', but with no details other than the period he reputedly worked in the diocese, in this case 1898.
James O'Brien was a Redemptorist priest who was in Australia in the period 1895 to 1908, and who conducted missions. He probably would have conducted a mission or missions within the diocese in the period nominated. He was not a priest of the diocese.
(Sources: Doody, MDHC A-Z O08).

(Reproduced by permission of Tom Campbell.)