Life
?1825-1875; b. Collon, Co. Louth, d. Drogheda; contrib. The Nation and The Irishman as “J.T.R.”, later a solicitor; trans. “The Prophecy of MacAuliffe” from the Irish for Nicholas O’Kearney’s The Prophecies of St Columbkille, etc. (1856); his poems incl. “The Famished Land”, in The Nation, (23 Jan 1847); “The Battle of Antioch”, in The Irishman (12 Jane 1849); “The Leaves are Blighted”, in The Irishman (2 Oct. 1849); “’Tis Evening Now”, in The Irishman, (17 Nov. 1849), and “Advice”, in The Irishman (21 July 1849).
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