Life
1787-1862; b. Co. Louth, met Jeffrey and Scott in Edinburgh; companion
of Lord Byron in Pisa; Byron laughed at his poetry but admired his knowledge
of Dante issued Padilla:A Tale of Palestine, 1816; A Comment
on the Divine Comedy of Dante (1822) 499p; Adelais, a poem
(priv. 1852); The History of the ... Order of St. John of Jerusalem ( 1852). RAF
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References
Dictionary of National Biography lists only John Taaffe (fl.1685-1708), alias Thomas O’Mullan and Fr. Vincent, an informer who turned Protestant and was employed by the Government to spy on Jacobites after ‘the revolution’.
Dictionary of National Biography lists only John Taaffe (fl.1685-1708), alias Thomas O’Mullan and Fr. Vincent, an informer who turned Protestant and was employed by the Government to spy on Jacobites after ‘the revolution’.
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)