Life
?1810-1879 [var. Eyles PI]; b. Dublin, ed. TCD, lawyer; ed., anthologies,
second series of Songs of Ireland (Duffy 1849), the first being
completed by M. J. Barry; also The Romances and Ballads of Ireland
(1850), which contains many poems of Mangan; The Rhyme Book (1851),
800pp., which he sent to the Great Exhibition, where it was only noticed
for its striking layout and binding; in the Preface, Ellis speaks of what
is characteristic of the ‘Irish imagination’; the pale green
pages and decorated margins of this work are artistically adorned with
crests of the Prince of Wales (Honi Soi &c.); bur. Mount St. Jerome;
as an anthologist of Dermody et al., Ellis occurs very frequently in PI
entries. RR PI RAF OCIL
Works
Ed., The Songs of Ireland [2nd series] (Dublin: Duffy; London:
Simpkin 1849), xviii+288pp.; Romances and Ballads of Ireland [...]
(Dublin: Purdon 1850) [var. Duffy], xxxi+432pp.; The Rhyme Book (Dublin:
Duffy; London: Longman, Green 1851), 712pp. SEE also Irish Book Lover
8.
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Criticism
M. J. Barry, Songs of Ireland (Dublin: James Duffy 1845).
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Notes
Patrick Rafroidi, Irish Literature in English, The Romantic
Period, 1789-1850, (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1980), Vol. I; cites
Songs of Ireland [1849] as the collection including poems of Mangan,
and lists Duffy as publisher (Irish Literature in English, Vol.
2, 1980, p.266). NOTE, McKenna (Irish Literature, 1978), cites
Songs of Ireland [2nd series] (1849).
Belfast Public Library holds The Rhyme Book; also [Barry, ed.,] The Songs of Ireland (1849).
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)