Catholic. Clerical Arrival, Freeman's Journal, Sydney, 23 July 1892, p 14, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article111326066:

By the s.s. Orient on Tuesday the Rev. John Brosnan arrived from the old country. The rev. gentleman has come out for the Diocese of Sydney, and we understand that he is to be attached to the staff of St. Patrick's Ecclesiastical Seminary, Manly.

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Obituary. Death of Father Brosnan, late of St. Patrick's, Manly, The Catholic Press, Sydney, 22 October 1903, p 23, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article104895332:

News has been received of the death of the Rev. Father John Brosnan, M.A., for many years a professor at St. Patrick's Ecclesiastical College, Manly, and one of the most learned and highly-respected of our Australian priests. Father Brosnan was born at Listowel, County Kerry, and had a distinguished career at Carlow College. When he was 21, and two or three years before his ordination, he took out his M.A. degree at the Royal University, Dublin. He came to Australia, and was about 11 years Professor of History and Sacred Scripture at St. Patrick's. During the Congress he read a brilliant paper on "The Popes of the Nineteenth Century," which was reprinted in the American and Irish newspapers. After the Congress he took ill, and last Easter he decided to go home. There was then no hope of his recovery, and he died in his old home on the 17th of September. His parents were at his bedside. He was about 35 years of age, and had he lived and enjoyed good health his career would have been a brilliant one. As it is, his memory will long be cherished in Australia. Father O'Driscoll, who is now on a visit to Ireland, attended the obsequies.— R.I.P.

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Obituary. Rev. John Brosnan., Freeman's Journal, Sydney, 24 October 1903, p 25, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article108254602:

We regret to learn by this week's mail of the death of the Rev. John Brosnan, Professor of St. Patrick's Ecclesiastical College, Manly, which occurred at the residence of his parents, near Listowel, county Kerry, on September 17. Father Brosnan had for several years developed a wasting malady, for which he in vain sought relief in various sanatoria of New South Wales. A few months ago, feeling the end approaching, he left for Ireland on sick leave, and however grieved, his many friends are not surprised to learn that he survived the voyage but a short time. Father Brosnan had a very brilliant course at Carlow College, where he was ordained. He also graduated M.A. in the Royal University, Dublin. On his arrival in Sydney eleven years ago he was appointed Professor of Church History at St. Patrick's College, Manly, a position which he held while his health permitted. He contributed a valuable paper to the Australasian Catholic Congress of 1900, which is preserved in the record of that great event. Father Brosnan's was a most loveable character; and we are sure the many friends he made in this country lament the premature close of what promised to be such a useful career in the Church.—R. I. P.

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Irish death record, https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/deaths_returns/deaths_1903/05650/4590568.pdf: Superintendent Registrar's District Listowel, Registrar's District Listowel. 1903. Deaths Registered in the District of Listowel in the Union of Listowel in the County of Kerry. No. 315: On 16 September 1903 at Islandany, death of John Brosnan, male, bachelor, 34 years, Roman Catholic Clergyman; of Pulmonary Tuberculosis, 1 year, certified; informant: Daniel Brosnan, Brother, present at death, of Islandany, 16 September 1903.

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Fr T.J. Linane, From Abel to Zundolovich, Vol. 1, 1979, p 35:

Brosnan, John, M.A., Irish
Early Professor at Manly College
b. Co. Carlow; ed. CW; ord. 22.4.1892. Served his career as a Professor of Philosophy at S.P.C. Manly. A popular man with the students and taking a keen interest in the Literary & Debating Society. Afflicted with T.B. he suffered several haemorrhages in early 1901. Moving to different places in B'urst to relieve, Carcoar etc. he died at B'urst in Nov. 1893.
(Footprints, Vol. 1, No. 8)
Ref.: 'The Emergence of an Australian Catholic Priesthood,1835-1915',by K.T. Livingston.
ANZCC note: Several likely errors in this entry, in light of obituaries reproduced above.