Irish poet, born in the county of Dublin, on the 5th of May 1845. In 1871 he became professor of history and English literature in Queen’s College, Cork, and upon the succeeding year received the degree of M.A. from Trinity College, Dublin, in recognition of his “high literary character and attainments.” Among his best-known writings are Ugone, a Tragedy; Poems, Lyrical and Dramatic; Garland from Greece; and Tragedy of Israel.—His brother, Edmund John (1841–65), a victim of ill-health, published a volume of poems, of which the principal one, Ovoca, an Idyllic Poem, gave title to it. See also “Autumn Memories,” “The Mystery” and “One in the Infinite.”
