Samuel Madden

Samuel Madden (born December 23, 1686 in Dublin , Kingdom of Ireland , † December 31, 1765 in Manor Waterhouse, County Fermanagh , Ireland) was an Irish author . His works include Themistocles; The Lover of His Country , Reflections and Resolutions Proper for the Gentlemen of Ireland and Memoirs of the Twentieth Century .

Life

Samuel Madden was a son of John Madden and Mary Molyneux. In 1729 he wrote the play Themistocles, the Lover of His Country , and in 1733 Memoirs of the Twentieth Century , one of the forerunners of science fiction literature, in which, as a Protestant, he warned of a future under the control of the Jesuits.

In 1738 he wrote his best-known work, Reflections and Resolutions Proper for the Gentlemen of Ireland , in which he described the pitiful living conditions of the general Irish population of the time.

Samuel Madden died on December 31, 1765.

Works

• Themistocles, The Lover of His Country. A tragedy. As it is Acted at the Theater-Royal, in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields (1729)
• Memoirs of the twentieth century ,: Being original letters of state under George the Sixth (1733)
• Reflections and Resolutions Proper for the Gentlemen of Ireland, as to their Conduct for the Service of their Country, as Landlords, as Masters of Families, as Protestants, as Descended from British Ancestors, as Country Gentlemen and Farmers, as Justices of the Peace, as Merchants, as Members of Parliament (1738)

Web links

• Samuel Madden at libraryireland.com
• Copy of "Reflections and Resolutions Proper for the Gentlemen of Ireland"