Wolff has observed, "waxed richly sardonic about Irishmen who tried to be more English than the English." Return Griffin's "Holland-Tide;" or, Munster Popular Tales was published by Simpkin and Marshall in 1827. "Holland-Tide" is a collection of seven short stories, all of which are told in the house of a hospitable Munster farmer during All Hallows' Eve in Munster. "Holland-Tide" established his reputation and he returned to Ireland, where he wrote Tales of the Munster Festivals in Pallaskenry to which his brother William had moved. Experience led Griffin to modify his expectations in relation to literary work, and, with a view to the legal profession, he entered as a law student in the university of London, but in a short time removed to Dublin for the study of ancient Irish history, preparatory to his work "The Invasion", which was published in 1832. This work had a good sale and was highly praised by scholars, but never became popular. Christian brother With the exception of a tour through Scotland and a short trip on the Continent, he lived with his brother, keeping up to some extent his literary labours. By 1833, Griffin was increasingly concerned that "he was wasting his time", and began to devote himself to teaching the poor children of the neighborhood. In 1838, Griffin burned all of his unpublished manuscripts and joined the Congregation of Christian Brothers, a Catholic religious order which has as its special aim the education of children of the poor. Writing to an old friend he said "he felt a great deal happier in the practice of this daily routine than he ever did while roving about the great city, absorbed in the modest project of rivaling Shakespeare and throwing Scott in the shade". In June, 1839, he was transferred from Dublin to Cork, where he died of typhus fever at the age of thirty-six. Legacy However, his play Gisippus was produced posthumously at the Drury Lane Theatre on February 23, 1842 by William Macready, and it ran to a second edition in print. One of Griffin's most famous works is The Collegians, a novel based on a trial that he had reported on, involving the murder of a young Irish Catholic girl (Ellen Hanley) by a Protestant Anglo-Irish man (John Scanlon). The novel was later adapted for the stage as The Colleen Bawn by Dion Boucicault. He has a street named after him