Life
1843-1878; author of The Last Bard of Limerick, an orig. national poem in Spenserian Stanza (Dublin 1865); a Fenian and a teacher at Clonliffe (Drumcondra); emig. to America and was serving as ed. of the New York Tablet at his death; ed. E. L. Swift, Treatise on the Names of Ireland, and Lives of St Patrick (1874); sometime professor at St Colman’s, Fermoy, Co. Cork. PI [No RIA]
Works
Ireland Among the Nations: or, The faults and virtues of the Irish compared with those of other races, by the Rev. J[ames]. O'Leary, D.D. (Boston: D. O'Loughlin Irish National Publishing House [1874], another edn. 1881), iv, 208pp. [Boston College - available at Hathi Trust - online]; Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick: including the life by Jocelin, hitherto unpublished in America, and his extant writings; illustrated with the most ancient engravings of our great national saint, with a preface and chronological table by James O’Leary [Irish fireside library; 7th Edn] (NY: P. J. Kenedy 1883), iv, 350pp.; 18cm. [Cover-title: All that is known of St. Patrick. - Spine title: Life and legends of St. Patrick.]
Note: Ireland Among the Nations by Rev. J. O'Leaary is dated 1874 in Joep Leerssen, Remembrance and Imagination [... &c.] (Cork UP/Field Day 1996), p.23. A work entitled Ireland Among the Nations (Tralee: Kerryman 1948) was written by Basil Clancy and formerly owned by Bishop Cahal Brendan Daly (ob.2009) [COPAC].
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