John Jennings (physician)
For other people named John Jennings, see John Jennings (disambiguation).
Dr. John Jennings (fl. 18th-century) was a Irish physician.
Jennings was a member of the Mac Jonin family of Ironpool, Kilconly, Tuam, and a cousin of Charles Edward Jennings de Kilmaine. He died young from a fever he contracted while attending a patient in the neighbourhood of Tuam. His death occasioned a lament titled Doctúir Jennings, composed by Patrick Greaney.
Extracts from the lament
A Dhochtúir Jennings, céad fároir cráidhte! Is tú fuair bás uainn i dtús do shaoghail: Dá siubhalainn Connacht agus Oileán Phádraic Samhail mo mhaighistir ní bhfuighinn i dtír
Nuair a bhreathnuighim síos ar Pholl an Iarrain, Cé an cás dom bliadhain acht arís go deó, Ins an áit a h'oileadh an leannaibh uasal. Acht nach truaigh sin a's mo chreach, é'r lár!
See also
References
- Irish Swordsmen of France, pp. 294–296 Richard Hayes, Dublin, 1934.
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