Life
1802-1845; b. Cork; contrib. The Merchantile Reporter and Bolster’s
Quarterly Magazine; emig. US in 1827; d. NY. RAF
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Works
Rudekki, a tale of the 7th c., and The Lament of Hellas,
and other Poems (1826); Adolph, and other poems (NY 1831);
Parnassian Wild Flowers (Georgetown 1836); Clontarf, or the
Field of the Green Banner, an hist. rom., and other Poems (NY 1843);
Poems by the late John Augustus Shea, collected by his son (NY
1846).
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Notes
‘Deardra’ by J. A. Shea, published in Bolster Magazine,
II, No. 7 (July 1827), pp.256 et seq.
Patrick Rafroidi, Irish Literature in English, The Romantic Period, 1789-1850 (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1980), Vol. I, p.172.
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)