Life
1812-1897; b. London Dec. 7, d. New Haven, Connecticut, Dec. 29; dedicated
Chartist who wrote for The Nation as ‘Spartacus’ in hopes
of uniting his cause with Young Ireland; emig. USA, 1866; became leading
engraver of his age, author of books on engraving; hon. doct. Yale, 1891;
his ‘Rhymes’ reprinted in Martin MacDermott’s The New
Spirit of the Nation (T. Fisher Unwin, 1894), p.85.
Notes
Chris Morash, The Hungry Voice (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan
1989), p.287.
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