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Life
1853-?; spent early life in Italy; issued Italian Lyricists of Today (1893); taught English at Alexandra College; became an ardent Gaelic revivalist; was disparaged by D. P. Moran in his attack on Stopford A. Brooke and T. W. Rolleston’s Treasury of Irish Poetry (1900), in The Leader (22 Dec. 1900). FDA
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References
Stopford A. Brooke & T. W. Rolleston, A Treasury of Irish Poetry in the English Tongue (London: Smith Elder & Co.; NY: Macmillan 1900; rep. 1915), selects poetry and supplies biog. notice.
Seamus Deane, gen. ed., The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing (Derry: Field Day 1991), Vol. 2, contains a reference to Greene in the course of Moran’s attack on A Treasury of Irish Poetry in the English Tongue, ed. Stopford Augustus Brooke and T. W. Rolleston (1900), in which Moran asks ‘was it a solemn, grave sense of humour that [...] suggested that Mr. G. A. Greene’s lines to the Italian Lakes, the lakes of the land where he was born, should be classed as Irish poetry?’ (FDA2, pp.970-72; and see n.6, as supra).
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