Life
1845-1913 [W. Lorcan O’Byrne], b. Dublin; worked in Education Office;
wrote A Land of Heroes (1899); Kings and Vikings (1900);
Children the Kings (1904); The Knight of the Cave (1906);
The Falcon King (1907), all ill. by Paul Hardy. His works are based
in mythology and early history, stronger on research than narrative, and
aimed generally at children. IF
Notes
Ireland in Fiction, ed. Stephen Brown (Dublin: Maunsel 1919),
listing shows publisher of all the first two of the forgoing to be Blackie
in London and Scribners in New York, and the remainder to be Blackie of
London only, while the first is ill. by J. H. Bacon, and the remainder
by Paul Hardy.
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