Background
David Grene was born in Dublin to Mr. and Mistress John Grene.
David Grene was born in Dublin to Mr. and Mistress John Grene.
He earned his Master of Arts in 1936 at Trinity College. His translations include Herodotus" Histories, Aeschylus" Prometheus Bound and Seven Against Thebes, Sophocles" Oedipus the King, Electra, and Philoctetes and Euripides"s Hippolytus. One of Grene"s memoirs, Of Farming and Classics, was published posthumously by the University of Chicago Press in 2006.
Ruth Grene is a professor of plant physiology at Virginia Technology
Nicholas Grene is Professor of English Literature at Trinity College Dublin, where his father took his first degree. After divorcing Marjorie, Grene married Ethel Weiss, and fathered the twins, Gregory Grene (lead singer and accordionist for Irish jig-punk band The Prodigals), and Andrew Grene, who was working for the United Nations when he died in the 2010 Haiti earthquake.
Andrew"s body was confirmed by the Department of Foreign Affairs on January 19, 2010 to have been found in the wreckage of Haiti"s destroyed United Nations building. Grene had been meeting with the head of the United Nations in Haiti at the time of his death.
The body of Andrew Grene was brought home to Belturbet, County Cavan on January 30, 2010 and buried beside his father after a funeral the following day.
A charity, the Andrew Grene Foundation, has been set up in his memory.