Life
?1756-?1830; jurist; ed. TCD, naval officer 1776-1783; settled in England; The Rights of Man, satirical play performed in 1791; The Flights of Fancy, misc. poems (1792); The Test of Union and Loyalty on the Long Threatened French Invasion (1797?); The History of Mr. Rightway and His Pupils, an entertaining and instructive lesson ... (1816); Pleasant Stories, or the Histories of Ben, the Sailor, and Ned, the Soldier (n.d.). also issued An Historical Treatise on the Feudal Law (1772). ODNB RAF
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References
Peter Kavanagh, Irish Theatre (1946), William Francis Sullivan ?1756-?1830, TCD grad.; The Rights of Man, farce (Buxton 1791; Hay 9 Aug. 1792); in The Thespian Magazine, 1792, Vol. 1; The Test of Union and Loyalty or The Long-threatened French Invasion, 8vo, 1797 written and spoken by W. F. Sullivan, AB; Flights of Fancy, Leeds 1792.
Patrick Rafroidi, Irish Literature in English, The Romantic Period, 1789-1850 (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1980), Vol. I, characterises Sullivan as a writer of inferior quality.
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