Life
?1770-1830; b. Strabane, Co. Tyrone; Army surgeon; served in Holland;
travel tales and stories, including Sarsfield, or Wanderings of Youth
(1814); Sarsfield (1814); Howard (1815); Northern Irish
Tales (1818); Charlton, or Scenes from Northern Ireland
(1823, 1827); Ulster novels give vivid picture (Crone). IF DIW MKA
FDA DUB OCIL
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Works
Charlton; or, Scenes in the North of Ireland: A Tale, 3 vols. (London
& Aberdeen 1823; 1827), 12o.; Sketches of History, Politics, and Manners,
Taken in Dublin and the North of Ireland in the Autumn of 1810 (London:
London: Published by C. Cradock & W. Joy; printed by Sidney George
1810; 1811), [2], 294pp. [attrib. to Gamble in BL Cat.]; Do. (Dublin:
Grant, Bolton and Co., Dublin 1811) [same with ticket of Dublin publ.
pasted over]; A View of Society and Manners in the North of Ireland:
in the Summer and Autumn of 1812 (London: C. Cardock & W. Joy
1813), viii, 399pp., 8o.; Views of Society and Manners in the North
of Ireland: In a Series of Letters Written in the Year 1818 (London:
Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown 1819), vi, 423pp. [Derived from
COPAC.]
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Commentary
A. A. Campell, Irish Book Lover, Vol. 1, ii, p.20 (1909); describes
his stories and essays as a ‘vivid pen picture of the Ulster of his
day ... invaluable’; see also Vol. 4. Noticed as fiction-writer in
Cahalan, Irish Novel, p.25.
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)