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Joseph Brenan, the Irish Poet.
From the "New orlAns pIenrune.n

From the "Now orl&ans Pcayune."
| How sweetly sad 1t is to gaze upon some
pure and babbling brook whose stream
becomes abruptly roaring torrent. which
leaps from rock to rock into golden sands
and flowers wends its way into a
resting place where its gathered waters
expand into lake in whose silvery bosom
nature mirrors the varied beauties of it's
margin. And:mournful is it to behold the
favored child Of poesy, who soaring on the
wings of inspired song has found dwell
ing place in lofty regions and in mystic
words created by his own thoughts, fall
from those Empyrean heights in his rad
liant youth, to be consigned to the sepul-
chre of mortal clay Thus does the mighty
oak, riven by lightning and uprooted by
blast, come crashing to the earth, and so
the gallant ship, victor of many a storm,
founders at last and sinks in mid ocean,
with all its sreamers flying in the wind,
In such hinges, at once, Of beauty and
Of horror, may be sketched the brief exist
ence of the loved and lost poet Joseph
Brenan.
lie was q native Of Cork, Ireland, hsv-
ing come into this world in 1929. He no.
quired superior classical education at
| the University of Dublin, which he impro.
we'd upon careful study and industrious
| reading.
Endowed with the fatal gift of genius,
he, like his friend and companion, the he
green banner" and struck his harp with
hot hand a6d patriot soul.
He was an active member Of the Young
Ireland party in tho revolution of 1S49.
After there was no longer any hope for
success, he fled to New York and wrote
for the Citizen then conducted by the
celebrated Irish patriot, John Mitchell.
Brenan was poet, orator, journalist,
wit, and man of rare literary attain
ments.
He subsequently moved to this city, and
became one of The editors of the New Or
leans Delta. lie was chiefly famed as o
brilliant poet and vigorous political wri-
ter. His style was pungent and lucid, al
ways exact, often eloquent or humorous.
Brenan had dauntless, generous ma
ture, as free from the alloy of the world
as was ever mortal. Truth, bravery, de-
votion and charity were always with him.
The writer of this brief sketch remem-
bers with emotion the "attic nights" in
which Laurant J. Sigur, Brenan, Alexan-
der Walker, John s. Thrasher, and other
talented journalists engaged in controver-
sy upon some political issue or literary
topic, in the editorial room Of the Delta,
and Brenan poured forth in burning
words the golden treasures of the radiant
genius.
The unfortunate poet died in Nav, 1857,
after having brayely battled for life, not
for himself, but others. At twenty-eight
wears ofage he was borne to his grave.
A marble slab marks the humble spot
where he sleeps, in shady corner of the
old st, Louis Cemetery in this CITY.
IL ia IN he recretted that the noem. NJ
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brehan, Win u menioir VI MS iie, IN Two
parts the first, "Brenan in Ireland" by
DIR Y D'Alton Williams. and the second
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"Drenhn IN america, ny Waiter hopkins,
bothdistinguishedw writers, ,hav neeyer been
nro.sod nnop ,bo ,n;nda of b;s fr;epd, tho
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WISH thub his numerous Poeiho m'shI w
collected together and published in the
form named above, the proceeds of the
eaie W po BNeh " Hio "iuom anu chh-
dren. The gentlemen chosen by him ac-
shortly fter rollowed him to utbnt bournn
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from whence no u"'eier re,urhs'
Brenan's songs strike the reader for
,be;r deem great passion emnnat;no form
tnrooDlng heart, anu ior thelr many
beauties of rhyme and simile.
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Drge l0r DeNii hei'iy, nhu oiherS VI
r fpat merit. are TOO long Tor quotation.