James Roderick O'Flanagan

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James Roderick O'Flanagan (born September 1, 1814 in Fermoy ( County Cork ), † 1900 in Fermoy) was an Irish writer.

life and work

James Roderick O'Flanagan was the son of John Fitch O'Flanagan and Eliza Glissan and received his education at Fermoy College and Trinity College Dublin . In 1838 he was admitted to the bar in Ireland and in 1846 a prosecutor for Cork. He moved to London around 1870, but returned to Ireland two years later and built a villa on his family estate near Fermoy. He died in 1900 at the age of 86.

A trip to the continent undertaken in 1836 gave O'Flanagan material for his first literary work: Impressions at home and abroad (2 vols., London 1837). In 1844 he wrote a Historical and picturesque guide to the Blackwater in Munster . He also contributed to the Irish rivers series , which appeared in Dublin University Magazine from 1845-1852 , edited the Irish National Magazine during the same period and was the main contributor to Dublin Saturday Magazine . In the meeting reports of the Royal Irish Academy , to whose member he was elected in 1853, he published The life and writings of the Irish historian John D'Alton , to whom the History of Dundalk (with D'Alton, Dublin 1861) and the novels Gentle blood; or, the secret marriage (1861) and Bryan O'Regan (1866). His main works are Bar life of O'Connell (1866) and The lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of Ireland (2 vols., London 1870). Later it was The Irish bar, anecdotes and mots of bench and bar (1878), memories of his own advocacy activities under the title The Munster circuit (London 1880) and Annals, anecdotes, traits and traditions of the Irish Parliaments from 1172 to 1800 ( Dublin 1893).

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SURNAME O'Flanagan, James Roderick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Fermoy ( County Cork )
DATE OF DEATH 1900
Place of death Fermoy ( County Cork )