Life
?1817-1868 [‘Bard of Moneyrea’]; b. Moneyrea, Co. Antrim; A Collection of Poems and Songs on Rural Subjects, 2 vols. (1844); commenced
dialect novel in 1850, ‘The Adventures of Hughey Funny or The Many
Tales of Love’. DUB
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Notes
‘A cache of papers of the county Down poet Robert Huddlestone has
turned up at the Ulster Folk Museum at Cultra; Huddlestone was the beclabbered
poet whom the Flecher referred to above and the ‘young Belfast literary
dabbler’ Hugh Leslie Stewart visited in Moneyrea ...’; Huddlestone
was also author of Irish patriotic poetry contrib. to The Nation (‘And
on for the freedom of Erin go Bragh’) (see John Hewitt, Rhyming
Weavers, 1974; cited in Patrick Walsh, DPhil., UUC [1996].)
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