Life
?1830-?; b. Mayo, dg. Patrick Knight, engineer and author of book on Mayo; schoolteacher at Gainstown, nr. Mullingar; contrib. Nation during 1850s, from 6 Sept. 1851 [pseud. Thomasine]; trans. from French; sort stories; emig. Australia and married Hope Connolly; Wild flowers by the Wayside, intro. CG Duffy (Dublin 1883). still living in 1912.PI