Life
1772-1832; Middle Temple, and traveller throughout Europe, knighted by
Duke of Bedford [in Dublin], c.1806; The Stranger in Ireland (1806);
published other travels works, 1803-1811, also verses. DNB
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Works
The Stranger in Ireland; or, a Tour in the Southern and Western Parts
in the Year 1805 (London: Phillips 1806), 530pp., ill. with full-out
pls.; rep. in America as The Stranger in Ireland; or, a Tour in the
Southern and Western Parts in that part of the Country in the Year 1805
(3rd US edn. NY 1897), xi, 334pp.; Do. [rep. edn.] (Shannon
IUP 1970); also The Stranger in Ireland [... ]; to which
is now first added an appendix, containing an account of Thomas Dermody,
the Irish poet [Early American Imprints; 2nd Ser., No. 12271] (NY:
I. Riley & Co. 1807; rep. [microfilm] 1990).
A Stranger in Ireland, or a Tour in the Southern and Western Parts of that country, in the year 1805 (London: Richard Phillips 1806), 530pp. [17 plates, 3 being pull-out]; Tips. 1-XXIII. engravings [fold-out]. Besides tours of buildings and topographical landmarks, points of interest in chap. headings as noted in contents are, Dublin beggars; retarding words gee and woo in discussion; mendicant wit; dress of the low Irish; Jews; defective state of ecclesiastical establishment; deplorable state of the coin; absentees; patrician eloquence; Barry the painter [IV]; Swift and Stella [V]; Black-rock [ill.]; cook, maid, whisky, and priest; Irish mode of executing criminals; the late Lord Children [VI]; Rosin; magnanimity of a peasant; native drollery; father Murphy, an extraordinary character; Dermody [IX]; Ledwich [IX]; Literary passion of the Irish [XI]; literary society in Ireland [XI]; duelling [IX]; innocence and licentiousness illustrated, natural delicacy, cleanliness, bravery, precipitation of speech [XII]; bulls and blunders, shall and will, favourite word elegant [XIII]; Doctor Donolly [XIII; antiquities of Grose [XV]; Irish and Carthaginian languages [XV]; lyrical quality of Irish language, extracts from bards [XVI]; anecdotes of Carolan, specimens of his poetic genius [XVII]; anecdotes of Ross-castle, O’Sullivan’s cascade, King Donahue [XVIII]; Mill-street [XIX]; Kilkenny theatricals [XX]; late Dean Kirwan [XX]; Lord Avonmore; Curran’s eloquence [XXII]; the theatre, performers, gallery wit (Dublin) [XXIII]. Chap. XXI is devoted to ‘Grattan, striking specimens of his eloquence and style of writing, with a plate of Tinnahinch, his seat. ‘The last wish of my heart with respect to the incorporation of Ireland with Great Britain is, that the description given by that great master of lyric poetry, Horace, of an union of another kind, may become every day more and more applicable to these twin stars of the western hemisphere. [Felices ter et amplius ... suprema citius solvet amor die, Liber 1, Ode 13]. [END]
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Criticism
Constantia Maxwell, Strangers in Ireland (1954) p.222ff.
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Notes
List of Poets: Stranger in Ireland contains a list of Irish
poets which D. J. O’Donoghue used as a basis for his collation in
Poets of Ireland.
Hyland Books (Jan. 1998) lists The Stranger in Ireland; or, a Tour in the Southern and Western Parts in tha part of the Country in the Year 1805 (3rd US edn. NY 1897), xi, 334pp.
De Burca, Catl. No. 44 (1997) lists John Carr, Esq. The Stranger in Ireland, or, A Tour in the Southern and Western Parts of that Country, in the year 1805. With 16 fold. sepia tinted aquatints and coloured engraved map of the Lakes of Killarney. [rep.] Shannon, IUP. 1970. 4to. x, xv, 530pp.; v. good in buckram [£85].
Kenny’s Bookshop (Dec. 2001) lists CARR, JOHN. Analysis Of A New Work Of Travels. Lately Published in London.. London: Phillips, 1806. Rebound in modern cloth. Foxing throughout. 55pp. €75.00
Morris Collection (University of Ulster Library) holds The Stranger in Ireland (1806) 530pp.
Anthology: Carr is included in John P. Harrington’s collection of writings by Englishmen in Ireland.
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)