Life
1835-1924; b. [Denniquinn] Sneem, Co. Kerry; actor, architect; and novelist, Culmshire Folk (1873); also Omniana: The Autobiography of an Irish Octogenarian (1916). IF DIW DIL2
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Works
Culmshire Folk, by Ignotus (London: Hentry S. King 1876 [var. Macmillan 1872); John Orlebar, Clk (London: Smith, Elder 1878); Chronicles of Westerley, a Provincial Sketch (Edinburgh: W. Blackwood 1872); Omniana: The Autobiography of an Irish Octogenarian (London: Smith, Elder; NY: E. P. Dutton 1916).
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References
Ireland in Fiction, ed. Stephen Brown (Dublin: Maunsel 1919); pseud. ‘Ignotus’; b. nr. Sneem, Co. Kerry; Architect to the Eccles. Commissioners, travelled through Ireland. In childhood, a friend of Father Walsh, the orig. of Graves ‘Father O’Flynn.’ Culmshire Folk is Irish only to the degree that the hero, Sidney Bateman, makes a return to the ancestral castle of Rathvarney in the wilds of Kerry, where Leveresque characters and Fr. Walsh are described; also John Orlebar, Clerk (1878), concerning the villainy of an attorney regarding inheritances, the action is also set in Rathvarney in the 18690s; depicts squalor, but not without sympathy.
Whelan Books lists J. F. Fuller, Omniana, The Autobiography of an Irish Octogenarian (Jarrolds n.d.).
Belfast Public Library lists I. J. F. Fuller, and holds Culmshire Folk; Chronicle of Westerly (1903); Dr. Quodlibet (1894); Omniana (1916).
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Notes
Omniana is also cited as a source of Irish Theatre, but anonymously, in Sheldon (Thomas Sheridan, 1967), or Stockwell (Theatre Customs). Irish Book Lover, vol. 7, contains notice that says that he enjoyed the highest fame with his early novels
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