Matthias Bodkin

Matthias Bodkin aka Matthias McDonnell Bodkin, Jesuit priest and author, 26 June 1896 – 2 November 1973.

Bodkin was a son of Matthias McDonnell Bodkin but never used his middle name, to differentiate himself from his father. He served as a Royal Navy chaplain during the Second World War, in Derry and aboard HMS Anson^{[disambiguation needed ]} in the Pacific.

He was a prolific writer on religious subjects, but also adventure stories for boys. His most acclaimed work was a biography of John Sullivan, a fellow Jesuit, published as The Port of Tears in 1954.

In later life, his eyesight began to fail, so he turned to retreat work and councilling. He died in Dublin.

He was a brother of Thomas Bodkin, and a descendant of the Tribes of Galway.

References

• Thomas Bodkin:a bio-bibliographical survey, with a bibliographical survey of his family, Alan Denson, 1966.
• Dictionary of Irish Biography, p. 627, Cambridge, 2010.

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Name	Bodkin, Matthias
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Date of birth	1896
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Date of death	1973
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