Life
1766-1816 [occas. Thompson]; resided Carngreine, Templepatrick, Co. Antrim;
b. 27 May, 1766; schoolmaster, secluded cottage on northern side of Lyle
Hill; visited Burns in March 1794, and received autograph ‘Song to
Clarinda’; issued Poems on Various Subjects, partly in the
Scottish dialect (Belfast 1793); Poems (Belfast 1797); New
Poems on avariety of diferent subjects (Belfast 1799); Simple Poems
(Belfast 1806); d. 1 June. PI
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Criticism
Loreto Todd, The Language of Irish Literature, 1989, p.97.
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Notes
Anthologised in John Montague, ed.,
The Faber Book of Irish Verse (London: Faber & Faber 1974), p.170.
‘Fowk tell how though, sae far frae daft,/When wind-faan fruit be
scatted saft,/Will row thysel wi cunning craft/An bear awa/Upon thy back,
what fares thee aft/A day or twa.’ (Quoted in Montague, ed. (1974,
p.170),
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)