Life
1814-?1890 [John Thomas Campion; pseuds. incl. signatures ‘O’Carolan’,
‘The Kilkenny Man’, ‘Spes’, ‘Urbs Marmoris’,
‘J.T.C.’]; physician and novelist; b. Kilkenny, practised as
doctor there; contributed to the Nation, United Irishman,
Duffy’s Hiberrnian Magazine, the Kilkenny Journal,
Irish People, The Celt, Duffy’s Fireside Magazine
and Irish Felon; wrote historical novels incl. The Last Strugglers
of the Irish Sea Smugglers (1869); also a historical study, Traces
of the Crusaders in Ireland (1856). PI DIW IF DIL OCIL
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Works
Ballads and Poems: Traces of the Crusaders in Ireland (Dublin:
Hennessy 1856); Alice, A Historical Romance of the Crusaders in Ireland
(Kilkenny: Coyle 1862); The Last Struggles of the Irish Sea Smugglers
(Glasgow: Cameron 1869); and Michael Dwyer; or, The Insurgent Captain
of the Wicklow Mountains (Glasgow: Cameron, Ferguson 1869), and
Do. [another edn.]: a tale of the Rising in '98 (Dublin:
Gill [1910]), 127pp.
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Criticism
Justin McCarthy, gen. ed., Irish Literature (Washington
1904)
D. J. O’Donoghue, The Poets of Ireland: A Biographical Dictionary (Dublin: Hodges Figgis & Co 1912)
Stephen Brown, ed., Ireland in Fiction (Dublin: Maunsel 1919)
Brian McKenna, Irish Literature, 1800-1875: A Guide to Information Sources (Detroit: Gale Research Co. 1978)
David James O’Donoghue, ‘The Literature of ‘67’, in Shamrock, 30 (1893)
Robert Hogan, ed., Dictionary of Irish Literature (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1979)
TCD Library (Dublin) holds Michael Dwyer; or, The Insurgent Captain of the Wicklow Mountains (Glasgow: Cameron, Ferguson 1869), and Do. [another edn.]: a tale of the Rising in '98 (Dublin: Gill [1910]), 127pp.
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)