Life
1794-; zealous Protestant sectarian, several anonymous tendentious novels
including, The Confessor, A Jesuit Tale of the Times (1854); died
in debtor’s prison after eighteen months. DNB, 1794-1854; anonymous
novelist, died in Queen’s Bench Prison. DNB DIW IF
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Notes
Stephen Brown, Ireland in Fiction: A Guide to Irish Novels,
Tales, Romances and Folklore [Pt. I] (Dublin: Maunsel 1919), lists
Michael Cassidy (1840), an attempt to persuade people to use small
allotments, green crops, rotation, economy, and hard work,; Owen Glendower,
rom. (1849). Also, The Confessor (n.d.), "a Jesuit tale founded
on fact".
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