[Rev.] John Kearney

Life
fl. 1799; Provost of TCD in 1799, ; bishop of Ossory, 1806-13, to whom Moore submitted his MS of Odes of Anacreon while a student. DNB

 

Notes
NOTE. poss. author of The Ghost of Walter (1798), a poem that includes reference to the French invasion of 1798. An MS note in the National Library of Ireland copy attests that it had an author of this name (cited in D. J. O’Donoghue, Poets of Ireland, 1912).

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