Life
1748-86; ed. Eton; ‘Fighting Fitzgerald’, perpetrated an abduction
of his brother after several profitable aristocratic marriages in Ireland
[incl. elopement with dg. of Thomas Connolly; executed for murder of Patrick
M’Donnell, at Castlebar. No works. PI DIB DNB
Notes
D. J. O'Donoghue, The Poets of Ireland: A Biographical Dictionary,
(Dublin: Hodges Figgis & Co 1912);, The Riddle, satirical poem,
by the late unhappy GRF, (Lon 1787); anthol’d in Edkin’s Collection
of Poems [qv].
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)