Life
1790-1854 [“The Chartist”]; b. Co. Down; United Irishman, fighting at Dollysbrae; settled in Dublin and worked on staff of Power’s Distillery in Thomas St.; lived at No. 15 North Anne Street; contributor and part-proprietor of the Tribune and President of the Irish Universal Suffrage Association.
Works
Papers of R. R. Madden incl. 2pp. MS note on O’Higgins, with a printed leaflet of the Irish Universal Suffrage Association (1841); also 2 MS letters to Dr. Madden, one from Patrick O’Higgins (4 Nov. 1847) and the other from his brother, Francis O’Higgins (3 Dec. 1864). [Madden Papers, in Pearse St. Library, Dublin.]
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