Life
1835-1885; minor poet and journalist; TCD BA; contemp. with W. G. Wills;
contrib. to Kottabos, The Nation, Irish Metropolitan Mag., and ed. The College Magazine; became a Navy surgeon;
took orders, and settled in Canada, 1868, became curate in Toronto; issued Lyrics of History and of Life (1880); A History of Brant, Ontario
(1883); Toronto, Past and Present (1886); History of North-West
Rebellion of 1885 (1886); was working on a History of Canadian
Liberalism at the time of his death. ODNB JMC
References
Justin McCarthy, ed., Irish Literature (Washington: Catholic
Univ. of America 1904), gives bio-data [as above] and selects “Long Deserted”
[‘Yon old house in moonlight sleeping, / Once it held a lady fair
... Ruined past all care and trouble / Like the heir of some old race
... There within our quiet garden / Fell that last of happy eves ... But
one shape of gentlest beauty / I can conjure from thy gloom, / In whose
sad eyes I can see ghosts that haunt memory.’).
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