Life
1820-1889; author of “Mo Bouchailín Bán/My White-headed Boy”, et al. m. Elizabeth Willoughby,
supra];
d. 26 Nov. 1889. PI DBIV
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Quotations
“Mo Bouchailín Bán/My White-headed Boy”: ‘And down by the castle, right over the hill/Mo Bouchailín works, the brown lands to till/But still at the dawn we meet at the slip,/Where white lilies float and golden flowers dip.’
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References
D. J. O’Donoghue, The Poets of Ireland: A Biographical Dictionary (Dublin: Hodges Figgis & Co 1912); lists Street-Ballads, Popular
Songs, &c., ed., R. V. and signed ‘Duncathail’ (Dublin
1865); also ed., The Harp of Erin; b. prob. 1820, Cork; wrote for The Nation in 1845, pseud. R. V., Cork; d. c.1886 [sic]; contrib.
as McCarthaigh Mor and Fionbarr to The Irishman.
Anthologies: incl. in John Cooke, ed., Dublin Book of Verse (1909) [bio-dates]; Ralph Varian, Popular Poetry and Household Songs of Ireland (Dublin M. H. Gill & Sons 1877), p.109; Christopher Morash, ed., The Hungry Voice (1989), p.275.
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Notes
D. J. O’Donoghue, The Poets of Ireland: A
Biographical Dictionary (Dublin: Hodges Figgis & Co 1912); also
lists Isaac Stephen Varian (1868-1812), who was arrested in 1848; included
in his brother’s anthology [?i.e., Street-Ballads &c];
d. 26 Nov. [aetat 56].
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