Michael Kearney (priest)

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

A graduate of Trinity College Dublin,[2] he was the Erasmus Smith's Professor of Modern History there 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]

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  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.[permanent dead link]
  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.