Life
Lived in Aberdeen and issued works of Irish fiction books such as The
Dunferry Risin’ (1894), Irish Stew (1894); Stories
of the Irish Rebellion (1898); Two Little Girls in Green
(1898); Irish Drolleries (Drane 1909); later moved in Durban, Natal.
IF.
Works
The Dunferry Risin’ (Digby, Long 1894) Irish Stew (Digby,
Long, 1894); Stories of the Irish Rebellion (Aberdeen: Moran 1898); Two Little Girls in Green (Aberdeen: Moran 1898); Irish
Drolleries (Drane 1909)
References
Stephen Brown, Ireland in Fiction (Dublin: Maunsel 1919), lists The Dunferry Risin’ (Digby, Long 1894) [Fenian movement; apparently
by Jon Francis Xavier O’Brien MP]; Irish Stew (Digby, Long,
1894), hum. tales [‘Jack Arnold’s Tour’, Englishman in
Bundoran; racy dialogue]; Stories of the Irish Rebellion (Aberdeen:
Moran 1898) [includes story of Leonie Guiscard and Teeling; humour and
pathos]; Two Little Girls in Green (Aberdeen: Moran 1898)
[Land League story, extremely popular viewpoint, feelings of people; amiable
Englishman sees justice done for his tenants]; Irish Drolleries
(Drane 1909) [ten comic stories; ‘Pat Mulligan’s Love-making’,
with bashful proxy proposal; ‘Miss Mullen’s Mistake’, matrimonial
advertisement; ‘Torsney’s ghost’; ‘O’Hagan’s
Golden Weddin’; ‘Tim Mannion the Hero’; ‘The Wake
of at Mrs Doyle’s’, &c.].
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Notes
J. J. Moran was Edgar Allen Poe’s physician and wrote A defense of
Edgar Allan Poe: life, character and dying declarations of the poet -
an official account of his death (Washington, D.C.: W. F. Boogher 1885).,
87pp.
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