Patrick Dunne

Background

He was born in Philipstown, now Daingean, County Offaly.

Career

He trained for the priesthood in Saint Patrick"s, Carlow College, ordained in 1846, and served for four years in the Diocese of Kildare. In 1850 he went to Australia, serving in the goldfields and many new Church and Educational Developments, he returned to Ireland in 1859 after a dispute with the hierarchy in Melbourne. In 1859 he founded the short-lived Saint Brigid"s Seminary in Tullamore which closed in 1866, French

Dunne intended this to be a minor seminary preparing priests to minister in Australia.

Connections

nephew:

John Dunne