W. J. Fitzpatrick

Life
1830-1895; biographer of Bishop Doyle [JKL] (1861), Lord Cloncurry (1855), Lady Morgan (1860), Charles Lever (1890); author of The Sham Squire (1895), on Francis Higgins [q.v.], which reached a sixth edition by 1872; issued Irish Wits and Worthies, including Dr. Lanigan, His Life and Times [...] (1873), &c.

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Works
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  • The Life, Times, and Cotemporaries [sic] of Lord Cloncurry (Dublin: J. Duffy 1855), xi, 604pp., ill. [engrav. port.].
  • Lady Morgan : her career, literary and personal / with a glimpse of her friends, and a word to her calumniators (London : C.J. Skeet 1860), xii, 308pp.
  • Memoirs of Richard Whately, Archbishop of Dublin: with a Glance at His Cotemporaries [sic] & Times  (London: R. Bentley 1864)
  • The Sham Squire, and the Informers of 1798, with a View of Their Contemporaries: to which are Added, in the Form of an Appendix, Jottings about Ireland Seventy Years Ago [1at edn. 1866; 3rd edn.; completely recast] (Dublin: W. B. Kelly; London: Simpkin, Marshall 1866), xvi, 329; 7-11, ill. [2 lvd. of pls.]
  • Ireland before the Union : with extracts from the unpublished diary of John Scott, earl of Clonmell, Chief Justice of the King’s Bench, 1774-1798. A sequel to The sham squire and the Informers of 1798 (Dublin: W. B. Kelly 1867), iv, 244pp.
  • Irish Wits and Worthies, including Dr. Lanigan, His Life and Times, with Glimpses of Stirring Scenes since 1770 (Dublin: James Duffy & Sons 1873), (vii, [1], 346pp. [available via HathiTrust - online].
  • The Life, Times, and Correspondence of the Right Rev. Dr. Doyle, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, 2 vols.  (Dublin: Duffy 1861; rep. [1880]; 1890), xi, 511pp. & 564 [Vol. I: list of subscriber, pp.1-4]; Vol. II, index, p.543ff.; The life of the Very Rev. Thomas N. Burke, O.P. [new & rev. edn.] (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner 1894), xi, 546pp.
Posthum.
  • History of the Dublin Catholic Cemeteries,  by William J. Fitzpatrick; continued and edited by his son, under the direction of a sub-committee of the Board (Dublin : Published at the Offices 1900), x, [1[, 235pp., ill. map, 19cm.; The Life of Charles Lever (London & NY: Ward, Lock [1890]), 392pp.; The Sham Squire and the informers of 1798 (Dublin : M. H. Gill [1869?1895).

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Notes
Namesake: W. J. Fitzpatrick, a broadcast journalist with a folklore interest; author of An Old-Timer Talking (1963) et al., published in Mourne [DIW]

 

 

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