Life
1813-1853; McKenna (Irish Literature, 1978) cites, John McCall, James Price, Memoir of ‘Another Forgotten Irish Writer ...’, in Irish Emerald 2 (1893); Price was associated with Mangan and ed. Evening Packet and The True and Original Salmagundi; contrib. Comet, Paddy Kelly’s Budget (1832-33), Weekly Dublin Satirist (1833-36). PI MKA
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References
D. J. O’Donoghue, Poets of Ireland (Dublin: Hodges Figgis 1912), b. 1814; recoolections of J C Mangan in The Evening Packet, which he edited; d. 14 Jan; poems in the Nation, Jan-Feb. 1853, reprinted from The Belfast Vindicator, 4 & 18 July 1840; contrib. The Comet, 1832 onwards; Weekly Dublin Satirist, 1833-34 (136 nos.); also sketches in Dublin Journal of Temperance, Science and Literature, 1841-42; also Salmagundi, in which his sketches called ‘Reminiscences’.
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