John Wilson Montgomery

Life
1835-1911; b. Virginia Co. Cavan; master of Bailieborough Workhouse; lived chiefly at Downpatrick, Co. Down, clerk to poor law board of guardians; local antiquarian; poems, Rhymes Ulidian (Downpatrick 1877); Fireside Lyrics (Downpatrick 1887); also prose sketches, Round Mourne (Bangor 1908). APPL

[ top ]

References
Brian Walker, gen. ed., Faces of Ireland 1875-1925 (Belfast: Appletree 1992) selects ‘The Circus’ [‘The circus! what a brilliant sight / Fine horsemanship was there, sir’], from Fireside Lyrics (Downpatrick 1887).

[ top ]