Life
1820-1889; ‘Mo Bouchailín Bán’ [‘And
down by the castle, right over the hill/Mo Bouchailín works, the
brown lands to till/But still at the dawn we meet at the slip,/Where white
lilies float and golden flowers dip.’]; m. Elizabeth Willoughby,
supra]. Bio-dates in Dublin Book of Irish Verse. PI DBIV
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Notes
D. J. O'Donoghue, The Poets of Ireland: A Biographical Dictionary
(Dublin: Hodges Figgis & Co 1912); lists Street-Ballads, Popular
Songs, &c., ed., R. V. and signed ‘Duncathail’ (Dublin
1865); also ed., The Harp of Erin; b. prob. 1820, Cork; wrote for
The Nation in 1845, pseud. R. V., Cork; d. c.1886 [sic]; contrib.
as McCarthaigh Mor and Fionbarr to The Irishman.
Anthologies, Ralph Varian, Popular Poetry and Household Songs of Ireland (Dublin MH Gill & Sons 1877), p.109. Christopher Morash, ed., The Hungry Voice (1989), contains example (p.275). Also John Cooke, ed., Dublin Book of Verse (1909).
D. J. O’Donoghue, The Poets of Ireland: A
Biographical Dictionary, (Dublin: Hodges Figgis & Co 1912); also
lists Isaac Stephen Varian (1868-1812), who was arrested in 1848; included
in his brother’s anthology [?i.e., Street-Ballads &c];
d. 26 Nov. [aetat 56].
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