TN-SAHT-0005

Record Date: 
14 August 2013
Graveyard: 
Church of the Sacred Heart
Exact wording of epitaph: 

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ON  YOUR  CHARITY  PRAY  FOR  THE  SOUL  OF

FATHER  NEIL  KEVIN

BORN  1908  IN  TEMPLEMORE 

PRIEST  OF  THE  ARCHDIOCESE  OF  CASHEL  AND  EMLY

HE  WAS  PROFESSOR  OF  ENGLISH  AT  MAYNOOTH  COLLEGE  1932 - 1953

HAVING  SERVED  GOD  IN  HIS  LIFE  AND  WRITINGS

HE  DIED  16th AUGUST  1953  AND  IS  HERE  INTERRED

IN  HOPE  OF  A  GLORIOUS  RESURRECTION

REQUIESCAT  IN  PACE

Memorial Type: 
Celtic Cross
Grave location
County: 
Tipperary
Latitude: 
52.796585
Longitude: 
-7.8272347222222
Additional details
Stonecutter/monumental sculptor: 
McDonnell, Templemore
Number of people commemorated: 
1
People commemorated: 
Title: 
Reverend
Name: 
Neil
Surname: 
Kevin
Date of birth - month: 
November
Date of birth - year: 
1908
Date of death - day: 
16
Date of death - month: 
August
Date of death - year: 
1953
Age: 
45
Address: 
Formerly of Templemore.
Notes: 

Father Neil Kevin was a prolific writer. ‘I Remember Maynooth’, published in 1937, under the pseudonym  Donn Boyne, was a series of essays which dealt with various aspects of College life. In 1944 he wrote ‘I Remember Karrigeen’, which was acclaimed for its cameo pictures of his native Templemore.

‘No Applause in Church’ was published in 1947. John Betjeman, the Poet Laureate, said it was worth reading three times, once for the soundness of its advice on how to live, once for the brevity and gracefulness of the essays and finally for the effect of content and style combined. ‘Out of Nazareth’, a collection of essays on reading and interpreting the gospels was published in 1953.

‘I Remember Neil Kevin (1903 – 1953) An assessment of his life and of his writings’, by Liam Maher, a collection of memories of Father Kevin, priest, writer and lecturer, was published in 1990.