Michael Kearney (priest)

The Ven. Michael Kearney, D.D. (b Dublin 1734 - d Dublin 1814) was an Irish priest and academic.^[1]

A graduate of Trinity College, Dublin,^[2] he was its Professor of Modern History from 1769 to 1776 and Regius Professor of Law from 1776 to 1778. He was the incumbent at Tullyaughnish from 1778; and then Archdeacon of Raphoe from his collation on 28 February 1798^[3] until his death on 11 January 1814.

His younger brother was a Fellow of the Royal Society;^[4]Provost of Trinity College, Dublin from 1799 to 1806;^[5] and Bishop of Ossory^[6] from 1806 to 1813.^[7]

References

1. William Reynell, ‘Kearney, Michael (1734–1814)’, rev. R. B. McDowell, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 22 April 2016
2. "Alumni Dublinenses :a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593-1860)" Burtchaell, George Dames/Sadleir, Thomas Ulick (Eds) pp453/4: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935
3. "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3" Cotton,H. pp365 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878
4. "Library and Archive Catalogue". The Royal Society. Retrieved 5 November 2010.
5. John Kearney. Trinity College Website, Retrieved on 13 September 2009.
6. Cotton, Henry (1848). The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland. Fasti ecclesiae Hiberniae. Vol. 2, The Province of Leinster. Dublin: Hodges and Smith. p. 290.
7. Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 404. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.