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Peter Stanislaus Little

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Peter Stanislaus Little

Birth
Monkstown, County Dublin, Ireland
Death
10 Dec 1890 (aged 16)
Clane, County Kildare, Ireland
Burial
Clane, County Kildare, Ireland
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Peter Stanislaus Little was born in Monkstown, Co Dublin on October 20, 1874. His father, Philip Francis, was the retired Premier of Newfoundland and a former Justice of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland. His mother was Mary Jane Holdright of Dublin. He was one of 13 children. He died as a teenager in 1890 while attending Clongowes Wood College near Clane, Co Kildare. Death resulted from pneumonia, which he contracted after following the hunt out over the Bog of Allen on a rainy day. His death is cited by James Joyce in "A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man": "Then he [Joyce] would have a dead mass in the chapel like the way the fellows had told him it was when Little had died".
Peter Stanislaus Little was born in Monkstown, Co Dublin on October 20, 1874. His father, Philip Francis, was the retired Premier of Newfoundland and a former Justice of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland. His mother was Mary Jane Holdright of Dublin. He was one of 13 children. He died as a teenager in 1890 while attending Clongowes Wood College near Clane, Co Kildare. Death resulted from pneumonia, which he contracted after following the hunt out over the Bog of Allen on a rainy day. His death is cited by James Joyce in "A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man": "Then he [Joyce] would have a dead mass in the chapel like the way the fellows had told him it was when Little had died".

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Sacred to the Memory of Peter Stanislaus Little who died 10 December 1890 aged 16 years R.I.P.

Gravesite Details

White grave with cross, in contrast to the black crosses on the Jesuit graves. Inscription stands out and is very easy to read. Well maintained Sept 2018.

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