Life
1773-1837; b. Dublin [‘Honest Jack’]; cousin of Lord Cloncurry;
refused admission to bar on account of United Irishman associations; ed.
the Ulster Register, Belfast, c.1817, and later the Belfast
Magazine and The Irishman; collaborated with P. B. Shelley
on the Compendium. of the History of Ireland (1814); agitated for
Catholic Emancipation, leading figure on Catholic Association, and violent
speaker; strong opponent of O’Connnell, who called him ‘Mad
Lawless’; nevertheless, he was praised by Wellington for withdrawing
from the Monster Meeting at Ballybay in 1828. Compendium of the History
of Ireland from the earliest period to the Reign of George I (1814),
with Shelley; An Address to the Catholics of Ireland (1825). DNB
DIW
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Notes
Irish Book Lover contains notice to the effect that he collaborated
with P. B. Shelley on the Compendium. of the History of Ireland
(1814).
Citation from the advertisement for Shelley’s Address to the Catholics
of Ireland [1812] given in W. J. McCormack, ed., Maria Edgeworth, The Absentee (OUP 1988), p.xii, stating the date of the visit to
be Feb. 1812.
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