James Joseph Bourke

Life
1837-94; b. 17th Sept., Dublin; wrote as “Tiria” in Irish papers from 1860s; d. 28 April; ‘poems very widely known and appreciated among Irish people’ [DJO’D].

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References
D. J. O’Donoghue, Humour of Ireland (Walter Scott 1894): bio-details as supra; incls. “O’Shanahan Dhu” and “Shane Glas”.

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