Life
fl. 1790; author of The Fallen Patriot; A Comedy, in Five Acts by Mrs.
O'Brien (1794]), a satirical drama; The Pious Incendiaries: or,
Fanaticism Display'd(1785), a poem; also The Political Monitor;
or Regent's Friend (1790).
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Works
The fallen patriot. A comedy, in five acts. By Mrs. O'Brien (Dublin:
printed by William Gilbert 1794); The pious incendiaries: or, fanaticism
display’d. A poem. By a lady […] (1785); The political
monitor; or Regent's friend. Being a collection of poems published in
England during the agitation of the regency … (1790).
Reprints, Christopher Wheatley & Kevin Donovan, eds., Irish Drama of the Seventeeth and Eighteenth Centuries, 2 vols. (UK: Ganesha Publishing UK 2003) [contains The Fallen patriot, A Comedy in Five Acts (1790)].
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Criticism
Christopher Wheatley, Beneath Ierne’s Banners: Irish Protestant Drama of the Restoration and Eighteenth century (Notre Dame UP 1999) [q.pp.].
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Notes
Kevin J. Donovan (MTSU) supplies details: he Fallen Patriot; A Comedy,
in Five Acts by Mrs. O'Brien (Dublin: printed by William Gilbert [1790]),
satirical drama; also listed in English Short Title Catalogue as author
of The pious incendiaries: or, fanaticism display'd. A poem. By a lady
[…] (1785); and The political monitor; or Regent's friend,
being a collection of poems published in England during the agitation
of the regency […] (1790).
William Pitt rebuked: Paddy’s Opinion, An Irish Ballad (1790) [‘Lest Hibernia’s high notions/To anger should rise,/And
smoke out your taxes/And blast your excise.’] (Cited in Bryan Coleborne,
‘"They Sate in Counterview": Anglo-Irish Verse in the Eighteenth
Century’, in Hyland and Sammells, Irish Writing (London: Macmillan
1991), pp.45-63; p.61.
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)