Life
fl.1907 [Samuel Alexander Ossory Fitzpatrick]; author of Dublin:
A Historical and Topographical Account (1907) in the 'Ancient Cities'
series and the sole work of the author.
Works
Dublin: A Historical and Topographical Account of the City (London:
Methuen 1907), xv, 359pp., ill. William Curtis Green.
Notes
James Fairhall, Joyce and the Question of History
(Cambridge UP 1993): the author calls Fitzpatrick ‘an Anglo-Irishman’
and goes on to cite a reference to the ‘cowardly and purposeless
assassination of Mr Thomas H. Burke ... and Lord Frederick Cavendish ....
perpetrated within sight of the windows of the Viceregal Lodge’ (Fitzpatrick,
op. cit., p.278), and also the account of the opening of Killiney
Park by Prince Albert and finally that of an electric tram system which
‘now renders Dublin in respect of communication second to no city
in Europe.’ (pp.63-66; adducing the foregoing to show that Joyce’s
picture of Dublin 1904 as paralysed is one-sided.)
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