Nicholas Blake (Dominican)
- Nicholas Blake (Dominican)
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Nicholas Blake (1698fl. 1698–1702) was a member of the Dominican Order.
Blake was a member of one of the families called the Tribes of Galway, and was part of the Dominican community expelled from the Claddagh, near the town of Galway, in 1698.
In 1702 he returned with two fellow Dominicans, Prior Gregory French and Fr. Daniel MacDonnell. Due to the Penal Laws and their earlier expulsion, any one of them could be deported if arrested. Blake escaped, but his companions were captured.
Blake “expressed his loneliness in a poem in classical Latin”[cite this quote] called "Here Lone I Live". It is a very rare example of a poem of this genre from the west of Ireland in the 18th century.
References
- Irish Dominicans, O'Heyne, p. 74.
- The Dominicans in Galway 1241-1991, ed. Eustás Ó Héideáin, O.P.
Categories:
- Irish poets
- Members of the Dominican Order
- 17th-century Irish people
- 18th-century Irish people
- People from County Galway
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