Life
1845-1883; Fenian and informer; leader of Invincibles; his evidence led
to execution of five others; killed by Patrick O’Donnell, bricklayer,
on board the Melrose Castle out of Capetown; O’Donnell in
turn hanged at Newgate; there is an allusion to
him in the “Eumaeus” chap. of James Joyce’s Ulysses. DNB DIB DIH
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Criticism
Seamus Deane, gen. ed., Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing (Derry: Field
Day 1991), Vol. 2, pp 306-07n.
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Notes
He is the persona in Samuel Ferguson’s dramatic poem, “At the Polo
Ground” printed in Lady Ferguson’s Sir Samuel Ferguson
and the Ireland of his Day (1896).
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)