Author talk:Jeremiah Donovan

Biography

DR JEREMIAH DONOVAN was a native of Macroom, in the county Cork. Of his early education we know little, except that Jeremiah Donovan, of the diocese of Cloyne, matriculated for the Logic Class in September, 1811, and read a fairly distinguished course. From 1816 to 1820, he was Professor of Classics in Carlow College. Professor Donovan was honoured with the close and intimate friendship of Dr. Doyle, by whom he was strongly recommended for the Chair of Rhetoric in Maynooth, to which he was transferred on the 4th February, 1820 .

In 1829, Dr Donovan published his Translation of the Catechism of the Council of Trent. It is a very important and a very useful work, not only for the Clergy, but also for all intelligent English speaking Catholics who desire to have at hand a full, accurate, and authentic exposition of the moral and dogmatic teaching of the Catholic Church. Dr. Doyle, to whom the manuscript was submitted before its publication, declared that the original is written 'in a style unexampled for purity and precision;' and that Dr. Donovan's rendering of it is 'the best translation into English of a Latin work that I have ever read.'

At a later period, Professor Donovan went to Rome, and spent some time in a careful study of the monuments of the Eternal City. The results of his studies he published in the well known work Rome, Ancient and Modern. Dr. Donovan's intimate acquaintance with classical literature and Roman history, and his easy flowing English style, gave him special qualifications for the composition of this valuable work. It was, at the time, universally welcomed by scholars in these kingdoms, and has enjoyed a very wide circulation.

After some months spent at Milton Mowbray, for the benefit of his health, Dr. Donovan retired to St Joseph's Seminary, Clondalkin, and subsequently went to Paris to consult some eminent physicians. He died, however, whilst undergoing a painful operation, and was buried in Paris. He left the principal portion of his money to Clonliffe College, and his books are, I believe, still at Clondalkin.

— John Healy, Maynooth College: Its Centenary History (1895)

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