Life
[var. J. J. Marshall]; Ulster man of letters and dialectologist, well
represented in Irish Book Lover, and occasionally cited in Brian
McKenna, Irish Literature (Gale 1978); associate of F. J. Bigger
in establishing - or re-establishing - the Feis of the Glens of Antrim;
and, like the other, he rigged archaeological evidence (acc. to Mr. Heslip,
Ulster Museum); Marshall made cuttings of F. J. Bigger’s journalism,
held in an album in Linen Hall Library.
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Works
History of Dungannon (1929); Old Belfast (1894); Life
of William Kennedy (1920), and other works of Ulster local history.
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NotesMichael Montgomery, ‘The Lexicography of Hiberno-English’, in Irish Studies: Working Papers, 93:3, Nova Southwestern, 1993, pp.20-35, notes that John J. Marshall stated that ‘the great majority of persons writing on this subject [Ulster dialect] seem to think that by Ulster Dialect is meant that form of speech prevalent in Co. Antrim and the Ards district of Down, and that a story, say, unless written in the Lowland Scottish prevalent in these districts is merely Irish, not Ulster dialect’; he also contributed lists of words, some of them local, but most of them in fairly general use through Mid and North-west Ulster’ in five instalments to the Ulster Journal of archaeology, and invited readers to furnish material, along with W. H. Patterson’s Glossary of Down and Antrim Words, for a Dictionary of Ulster Dialect in which words would be philologically treated, fully explained, and illustrated. (Montgomery, p.26).
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)