George McDermot | |
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![]() George McDermot as a Paulist priest circa 1900 | |
Born | |
Died | December 11, 1917
San Francisco, US | (aged 76)
Occupation(s) | Lawyer, writer, poet, priest |
Years active | 1864-1912 |
Known for | Political activism, legal writings, poetry, scholarly articles |
Notable work | The Land Law Act (Ireland) 1881 and Landlord and Tenant Act 1870 with rules to both acts...the Landlord and Tenant Law Amendment Act 1860; the Irish Church Act Amendment (1881) and a consolidated index to the Acts and Rules |
George McDermot (20 May 1841 – 11 December 1917). [1] was an Irish lawyer, writer and poet, and Catholic priest. He was an investigator and judge under the Arrears Act of 1882.
George McDermot was born on 20 May 1841 in Castlerea, Co. Roscommon, Ireland, the son of Edward McDermot, a merchant and Kate McGreevy. [2] He attended St. Jarlath's Diocesan College, Tuam, Co. Galway and graduated from Trinity College Dublin with the degree of B.A. in 1864. He studied law at the King's Inns Dublin and Middle Temple London. He was a practising barrister-at-law on the Western Circuit for several years and a sometime judge under the Arrears Act of 1882. In the late 1880s he gave up a successful legal career in Ireland and went to New York, where he joined the Paulist Order, taking Holy Orders in 1894. He served in parishes in New York from 1894 to 1910. He retired in 1912 and went to live in San Francisco. He died there on 11 December 1917.
He was a member of the Irish Nationalist Party, which sought Home Rule for Ireland, and was president of his local branch association in Castlerea. The Nation reported on a speech he delivered in February 1872. [3]
We observe by the Roscommon Messenger that a large and enthusiastic meeting was held on the 19th ult. in Castlerea, in support of the Home Rule movement, and that Mr George McDermot B.L., President of the local branch Association, delivered on the occasion an exhaustive, able and eloquent address - in which he recounted in forcible terms the loss and misery which the Union has brought upon Ireland, pointed out the manner in which Irish business is neglected in the House of Commons, and gave convincing proofs of the benefits which the federal arrangement would confer as well on the English people as on all classes of Irishmen.
— The Dublin Weekly Nation, Issue 16th March, 1872
He joined the Irish National League, founded by C.S. Parnell, in 1885.
As a lawyer, his best-known work was an authoritative book on the Land Law (Ireland) Act 1881 and related acts including the Irish Church Act Amendment Act, 1881. [4] This ran to a second edition published in November 1881. [5] He also contributed poems in his youth [6] to The Nation, an Irish weekly newspaper. He published the following scholarly articles contributed to the Catholic World (CW), The North American Review (NAR), American Journal of Sociology (AJS) and The American Catholic Quarterly Review (ACQR) between 1890 and 1910 [7]
George McDermot | |
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![]() George McDermot as a Paulist priest circa 1900 | |
Born | |
Died | December 11, 1917
San Francisco, US | (aged 76)
Occupation(s) | Lawyer, writer, poet, priest |
Years active | 1864-1912 |
Known for | Political activism, legal writings, poetry, scholarly articles |
Notable work | The Land Law Act (Ireland) 1881 and Landlord and Tenant Act 1870 with rules to both acts...the Landlord and Tenant Law Amendment Act 1860; the Irish Church Act Amendment (1881) and a consolidated index to the Acts and Rules |
George McDermot (20 May 1841 – 11 December 1917). [1] was an Irish lawyer, writer and poet, and Catholic priest. He was an investigator and judge under the Arrears Act of 1882.
George McDermot was born on 20 May 1841 in Castlerea, Co. Roscommon, Ireland, the son of Edward McDermot, a merchant and Kate McGreevy. [2] He attended St. Jarlath's Diocesan College, Tuam, Co. Galway and graduated from Trinity College Dublin with the degree of B.A. in 1864. He studied law at the King's Inns Dublin and Middle Temple London. He was a practising barrister-at-law on the Western Circuit for several years and a sometime judge under the Arrears Act of 1882. In the late 1880s he gave up a successful legal career in Ireland and went to New York, where he joined the Paulist Order, taking Holy Orders in 1894. He served in parishes in New York from 1894 to 1910. He retired in 1912 and went to live in San Francisco. He died there on 11 December 1917.
He was a member of the Irish Nationalist Party, which sought Home Rule for Ireland, and was president of his local branch association in Castlerea. The Nation reported on a speech he delivered in February 1872. [3]
We observe by the Roscommon Messenger that a large and enthusiastic meeting was held on the 19th ult. in Castlerea, in support of the Home Rule movement, and that Mr George McDermot B.L., President of the local branch Association, delivered on the occasion an exhaustive, able and eloquent address - in which he recounted in forcible terms the loss and misery which the Union has brought upon Ireland, pointed out the manner in which Irish business is neglected in the House of Commons, and gave convincing proofs of the benefits which the federal arrangement would confer as well on the English people as on all classes of Irishmen.
— The Dublin Weekly Nation, Issue 16th March, 1872
He joined the Irish National League, founded by C.S. Parnell, in 1885.
As a lawyer, his best-known work was an authoritative book on the Land Law (Ireland) Act 1881 and related acts including the Irish Church Act Amendment Act, 1881. [4] This ran to a second edition published in November 1881. [5] He also contributed poems in his youth [6] to The Nation, an Irish weekly newspaper. He published the following scholarly articles contributed to the Catholic World (CW), The North American Review (NAR), American Journal of Sociology (AJS) and The American Catholic Quarterly Review (ACQR) between 1890 and 1910 [7]