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Life
?1800- ; b. Dublin; founder of comic journals; play on pop. theme called The O’Donoghue of the Lakes; or the Harlequin and the Leprechaun (Dublin 1840), pseud. ‘Paddy Kelly’. Also ed. Dublin comic papers, Paddy Kelly’s Budget (1832-38) and Punch and Judy (1840s). PI DIW RAF
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References
D. J. O’Donoghue, The Poets of Ireland: A Biographical Dictionary (Dublin: Hodges Figgis & Co 1912); The O’Donoghue produced at Theatre Royal, Dublin; wrote on comic papers in London [sic].
Patrick Rafroidi, Irish Literature in English, The Romantic Period, 1789-1850 (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1980), Vol. I; wrote for The Comet, and ran Paddy Kelly’s Budget, or a penny-worth of fun (1832-1835), an ‘alarmingly intellectual’ humorous weekly; in London, launched Punchinello, or Punch and Judy in 1840. Also, a play O’Donoghue of the Lakes (Crow St. 14 Oct. 1840). Cf. Groves, a dram. work of the same title, 1832.
Peter Kavanagh, The Irish Theatre (1946), cites Alfred Howard fl.1839; pseud. ‘Paddy Kelly’, O’Donoghue of the Lakes or The Harlequin and the Leprechaun, panto. (Theatre Royal, Dublin 14 & 15 Oct 1840) 1840; Darby O’Rourke and the Eagle or Harlequin and the Man in the Moon (Th. Royal Dublin, Jan 1842), opening part only.
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Notes
The O’Donoghue is the subject and title of other productions of the nineteenth century, Howard’s prob. the earliest.
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