biography
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1803–40)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Limerick, SW Ireland. He wrote for local journals and went to London in 1823, but returned to Limerick in 1838 and joined the Christian Brothers, after burning his manuscripts. His novel, The Collegians, was published anonymously in 1829. |
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