Monsignor Michael Clune

Title:

Monsignor

First Name:

Michael

Middle Names:

Brendan

Preferred Name:

Surname:

Clune

Order:

Date of Birth:

23-Feb-1897

Place of Birth:

Duagh, Co Kerry

Country of Birth:

Ireland

Date of Ordination:

29-May-1921

Place of Ordination:

Wexford

Country of Ordination:

Ireland

Ordination Diocese:

Port Pirie

Seminary:

Date of Death:

12-Mar-1977

Place of Death:

Country of Death:

Australia

Date of Burial:

1977

Place of Burial:

North Brighton, Adelaide SA

Country of Burial:

Australia

Find A Grave URL:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/201821006

Appointments Table

Diocese
Place
Role
Start Day
Start Month
Start Year
End Day
End Month
End Year
Source
Port Pirie Peterborough19271929Cresp, Good and Faithful Servants
Port Pirie Port Pirie19291930Cresp, Good and Faithful Servants
Port Pirie Hawker1930Cresp, Good and Faithful Servants
Port Pirie Hawker1931Cresp, Good and Faithful Servants
Port Pirie Port Pirie19371943Cresp, Good and Faithful Servants
Port Pirie Spalding1944Cresp, Good and Faithful Servants
Port Pirie Crystal BrookCresp, Good and Faithful Servants
Port Pirie Chancellor1937Cresp, Good and Faithful Servants
Port Pirie Port PirieVicar Capitular19371939Cresp, Good and Faithful Servants
Port Pirie Port PirieVicar General19391969Cresp, Good and Faithful Servants
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Biographical Notes

Fr Frank Cresp, Good and Faithful Servants: Recalling the Spirit of the Deceased Priests of the Diocese of Port Augusta and Port Pirie 1888-2008, 2008:
Clune, Michael Brendan

Born: 23/2//1897 in Duach, Co Kerry, Ireland.
Ordained: 29/5/1921 in Wexford, Ireland.
Arrived in the Diocese March 1922. Worked in Peterborough 1927-29; Hawker 1930; Port Pirie 1929-30, 1937-43; Hawker 1931 ; Spalding 1944; Crystal Brook. Retired to Adelaide in 1972.
Diocesan Consultor 1935; Diocesan Chancellor 1937; Vicar General 1939-69. Director of Propagation of the Faith 1937. Domestic Prelate 1944. Protonotary Apostolic 1953. Vicar Capitular 1937-39, February- June 1952.
Stationed in Port Pirie during World War Two, he was interpreter and counsellor for many Europeans whose husbands and fathers were being interned at Loveday Camp. Diocesan Chaplain CWL from its beginning until 1976.
Died: 12/3/1977. Buried in North Brighton Cemetery.
"I'm the friend of the young priests."

Some Memories
by Father Brian Mathews

Michael Clune
I sit and listen to all the stories about Clune and how he was a tyrant and could intimidate people just by looking over the top of his glasses at you, which is all probably true, but this is not the Clune I knew. As a young boy I used to walk past the old Crystal Brook Presbytery on my way home from school. His sister, Mrs Hetherington, would always be out in the garden as I went past (I think she may have been waiting for me now that I think about it!) and she would ask me in for a drink or some nice dessert, ice cream and jelly or something she had made the night before for the Mons, her brother. Anyway we used to sit outside on the verandah most of the time but every now and then I would get a glimpse of Mons Clune sitting in a darkened room smoking his cigar. He never said much but every now and then he would ask how school was or what I was doing for the week-end. Maybe the fire in him had gone out by then but I remember him and Lee with great affection.

(Reproduced with the approval of Sister Mary Cresp RSM)