Thomas Nicholas Burke

Thomas Nicholas Burke (8 September 1830 in Galway – 2 July 1883 in Tallaght, Ireland) was an Irish Dominican preacher.

Early in the following year Father Burke was recalled to Ireland to found the novitiate of the Irish Province at Tallaght, near Dublin (St. Mary's Priory).

Elected Prior of Tallaght in 1863, he went to Rome the following year as Rector of the Dominican Convent of San Clemente, and attracted great attention by his preaching.

He returned to Ireland in 1867, and delivered his oration on Daniel O'Connell at Glasnevin before fifty thousand people.

John Pius Leahy, Bishop of Dromore, took him as his theologian to the First Vatican Council in 1870,[2] and the following year he was sent as Visitor to the Dominican convents in America.

In June he returned to Tallaght in a dying condition, and preached his last sermon in the Jesuit church, Dublin, in aid of the starving children of Donegal.

Portrait of Rev. T. N. Burke, OP
Father Burke's statue, Galway, by John F Kavanagh