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Edward Brien

former Archdeacon of Emly

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 30, 2025
Entity authorityQ44959118 ↗
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Edward Henry Brien (1811–1902) was Archdeacon of Emly from 1858 until 1880.

Brien was born in Devon and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He was the rector of Enniskerry until his appointment as archdeacon.

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This entry incorporates text from “Edward Brien” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.