A. Blenkensop

Life
Author of Paddiana, or scraps and sketches of Irish Life, present, and past, 2 vols. (Bentley 1847); 2nd edn. 1848 IF/IF2

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References
Stephen Brown, Ireland in Fiction (Dublin: Maunsel 1919), cites some contents of Paddiana, e.g., ‘Mick Doolan’s Head’, ‘Still-Hunting’, ‘Barney O’Hay’, &c.; and comments: ‘the old calumnies are raked up and set down here, with the conclusion that the Irish are an uncivilised people whose national character is ‘a jumble of contradictions’; told with verve. Desmond Clarke, Ireland in Fiction [Pt. II] (1985) notes 2nd edn. published by Charles II [sic] as Larry Lynch; or, Paddiana (London n.d.), with same stories in different order.

University of Ulster Library (Morris Collection) holds Paddiana; or, Scraps and Sketches of Irish Life, Present, and Past, by the author of A Hot Water Cure’, in 2 vols. (Bentley 1847), 322, 266pp. [Cathach 1996-97] Paddiana, or scraps and sketches of Irish Life, present, and past, 2 vols. (Bentley 1847)

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