Life
1841-1922; Boss Croker, son of )Presbyterian landlord family of West Cork;
emig. to USA; established political hegemony of Tammany Hall. NY; twice
married, once to a Cherokee; later settled in Ireland, having failed to
enter English racing society, and bought a property in Foxrock; owned
Orby, a Derby winner but was refused entrance to the royal enclosure and
the presence of the king; public funeral in New York.
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Criticism
Padraic O’Farrell, Boss Croker (Dublin: Sitric Books
2003), 304pp. [novel] See Anthony Cronin, Samuel Beckett: The Last
Modernism, 1996, p.27.
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