Life
?1800-1850 [JMC]; b. [?]Dublin; contrib to Dublin Penny Journal and
Irish Penny Journal; his ‘Darby Doyle’s Voyage to Quebec,’
often attrib to Lover; witty writer, collab. with H. B. Code in Angling
Excursions of Gregory Greendrake [Dublin 1824; JMC], being the poet
Geoffrey Greydrake [sic] in it; kept fishing tackle estab. on Wood Quay
and later on Cork Hill; d. in poverty about 1850; there is a ‘miniature
memoir’ [No. 14], in Dublin Journal, 1 (1887); see also Irish
Book Lover, 2. PI MKA JMC
The Green Bank, or an hour’s amusement for the young angler (Dublin 1843).
Prose
The Angling Excursions of Gregory Greendrake (1824, 1826); also Do., Pt. II. (rep. from Warder);. See SEE McKenna (Irish Literature (1978).
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Irish Literature, Justin McCarthy, ed., (Washington: University of America 1904); (Justin McCarthy, Irish Literature, 1904); selects ‘Darby Doyle’s Voyage to Quebec,’ a comic tale in base Hiberno-English (‘"That’s what I call a flaugholoch mess," siz I.’), erroneously attributed to Lover.
D. J. O’Donoghue speaks of his notable piece of Irish humour called
"Darby Doyle’s Voyage to Quebec", by a Dublin fishing-tackle
manufacturer, in Editor’s Intro. to the rep. edition of Lover’s Legends and Stories of Ireland Constable, 1899).
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)