Life
1835-1911; b. Virginia Co. Cavan; master of Bailieborough Workhouse; lived
chiefly at Downpatrick, Co. Down, clerk to poor law board of guardians;
local antiquarian; poems, Rhymes Ulidian (Downpatrick 1877); Fireside
Lyrics (Downpatrick 1887); also prose sketches, Round Mourne
(Bangor 1908). APPL
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References
Brian Walker, gen. ed., Faces of Ireland 1875-1925 (Belfast:
Appletree 1992) selects ‘The Circus’ [‘The circus! what
a brilliant sight / Fine horsemanship was there, sir’], from Fireside
Lyrics (Downpatrick 1887).
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