Nicholas Brady (28 October 165920 May 1726),

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and

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, was born in

Bandon, County Cork Bandon (; ) is a town in County Cork, Ireland. It lies on the River Bandon between two hills. The name in Irish means 'Bridge of the Bandon', a reference to the origin of the town as a crossing point on the river. In 2004 Bandon celebrated its ...

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. He was the second son of Major Nicholas Brady and his wife Martha Gernon, daughter of the English-born judge and author

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(little is known of her mother); his great-grandfather was Hugh Brady, the first Protestant

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. He received his education at

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and at

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; he had degrees from

Trinity College, Dublin , name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin , motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin) , motto_lang = la , motto_English = It will last i ...

(BA 1685, MA 1686, BD & DD 1699)Burtchaell, George Dames; Sadleir, Thomas Ulick (eds),
Alumni Dublinenses: a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin
(1593-1860)'', p. 93: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935. Brady was a zealous promoter of the

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and suffered for his beliefs in consequence. When

war War is an intense armed conflict between states, governments, societies, or paramilitary groups such as mercenaries, insurgents, and militias. It is generally characterized by extreme violence, destruction, and mortality, using regular o ...

broke out in Ireland in 1690, Brady, by his influence, thrice prevented the burning of the town of Bandon, after

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gave orders for its destruction following the

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. The same year he was employed by the people of Bandon to lay their grievances before the

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. He soon afterwards settled in

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, where he obtained various preferments. At the time of his death, he held the livings of

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and

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. Brady's best-known work, written with his collaborator

Nahum Tate Nahum Tate ( ; 1652 – 30 July 1715) was an Irish poet, hymnist and lyricist, who became Poet Laureate in 1692. Tate is best known for ''The History of King Lear'', his 1681 adaptation of Shakespeare's ''King Lear'', and for his libretto for ...

, is ''

New Version of the Psalms of David Tate and Brady refers to the collaboration of the poets Nahum Tate and Nicholas Brady, which produced one famous work, ''New Version of the Psalms of David'' (1696). This work was a metrical version of the Psalms, and largely ousted the old vers ...

'', a metrical version of the

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s. It was licensed in 1696, and largely ousted the old ''

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''. His ode ''

Hail! Bright Cecilia ''Hail! Bright Cecilia'' ( Z.328), also known as ''Ode to St. Cecilia'', was composed by Henry Purcell to a text by the Irishman Nicholas Brady in 1692 in honour of the feast day of Saint Cecilia, patron saint of musicians. Annual celebration ...

'', based on a similar ode by

John Dryden '' John Dryden (; – ) was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who in 1668 was appointed England's first Poet Laureate. He is seen as dominating the literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the per ...

, was written in 1692 in honour of the feast day of Saint Cecilia, patron saint of musicians. It was set to music by

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in 1697. Like Dryden, he also translated

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's ''

Aeneid The ''Aeneid'' ( ; la, Aenē̆is or ) is a Latin Epic poetry, epic poem, written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Troy, Trojan who fled the Trojan_War#Sack_of_Troy, fall of Troy and travelled to ...

'', and wrote several smaller poems and dramas, as well as sermons. He married Letitia Synge and had four sons and four daughters. Notable descendants of Nicholas include

Maziere Brady Sir Maziere Brady, 1st Baronet, PC (Ire) (20 July 1796 – 13 April 1871) was an Irish judge, notable for his exceptionally long, though not particularly distinguished tenure as Lord Chancellor of Ireland. Background Brady was born at his parent ...

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.O'Hart, John ''Irish Pedigrees'' 5th Edition 1892

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