Life
[1902- ]; b. nr. Manchester, of Irish parents; ed. Lisburn, Co. Antrim;
ordained Presbyterian minister in 1930; works include Mother Macree
(1933); Jenny O’Neill; The Singing Parson; Dear Were the Days (1934); Irish Hearts; The Soil
and the Stars; Hold Back the Shadows; The Land Remains; Mountain Idyll; My Lady of the Glen; Mine Eyes have seen
the Glory (1953), in which characters are Roger Casement and Eoin
McNeill. IF2
Works
Rhymes of a Rustic (Quota Press [?d}), 70pp.; The Land Remains
and The Soil and the Stars, cited in J. W. Foster, Themes and
Forces in Ulster Fiction (1974)
Notes
Dear Were the Days (Dublin: Talbot 1934) is dedicated to A. M.
Fullerton OBE CH, with foreword by Alexander Irvine referring warmly to
‘his people and my people of the glens of Antrim’.
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