Charles Dawson Shanly

 

Life
1811- ; b. Dublin; ed. TCD; official in Canada, moving later to New York; contrib. magazines and published several works; d. Florida; wrote “Kitty of Coleraine”, often falsely attributed to Edward Lysaght [q.v.]; also “The Walker in the Snow”, a Poe-ish Canadian ballad (selected in Justin McCarthy, gen. ed., Irish Literature, Washington 1904). JMC

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