 In 1851 he became curate of St. Dolough's, Dublin, and in the same year Rector of Farrahy, County Cork.In this year, also, he married Frances Walker, daughter of the late William Walker, attorney, of Mountjoy Place and High Park, Dublin, and Jane Marsh, who was descended from Jeremy Taylor.Brady acted as chaplain to several successive viceroys, and in 1861 became Vicar of Clonfert, County Cork.