Life
Member of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) and novelist; issued The Irish Police Officer (1861) - whcih contains a great deal of Hiberno-English; Rory of the Hills (1870) - which remained in print; author of Curiosities of
Detection, or The Sea Coast and other Tales (1862). IF IF2 [No DIB/RIA]
Works
The Irish Police Officer: comprising the Identification, and other
tales founded upon remarkable trials of Ireland [World Trials Lib.] (London: Ward & Lock 1861), vi, 216pp. [contains stories, “The identification”; “The banker of Ballyfree”; “The reprieve”; “The two Mullanys”; “M'Cormack’s grudge”; “How the Chief was robbed”.
References
Desmond Clarke, Ireland in Fiction [Pt. II] (Cork: Royal Carbery
1985), lists Curiosities of Detection, or The Sea Coast and other Tales (1862).
Belfast Public Library holds Irish Police Officer [fiction; also History of the Royal Irish Constabulary (1869).
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