(1803-1840)
Dramatist, novelist, and poet, s. of a tradesman, b. and ed. in Limerick, he went in 1823 to London, where most of his literary work was produced. In 1838 he returned to Ireland and, dividing his property among his brothers, devoted himself to a religious life by joining the Teaching Order of the Christian Brothers. Two years thereafter he d., worn out by self-inflicted austerities. His chief novel, The Collegians, was adapted by Boucicault as The Colleen Bawn, and among his dramas is Gisippus. His novels depict southern Irish life.
(1828-1907) Poet, b. near Tring, Herts. As a boy he worked in a silk-factory, and as a straw-plaite...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
(fl. 1596) Poet, of whom almost nothing is known, pub. in 1596 a collection of 62 sonnets under the...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin