Life
1823-1875; b. Drogheda, Co Louth; d. Wigan; emig. Lanchashire in 1840 to work as weaver; joined chartist movement; wrote for The Irishman; ‘The Eviction’ in Ralph Varian’s Ballads, Popular Poetry, and Household Songs of Ireland (Dublin: MH Gill & Sons 1877), p.109.
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Criticism
Chris Morash, The Hungry Voice (1989), p.275.
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