Digital Archive
John Clinton O'Boyce to Miss M. Smith, Rossnakill, 19 February 1879
Cite this document IIIF Viewer
Collection O'Callaghan Letters
Title John Clinton O'Boyce to Miss M. Smith, Rossnakill, 19 February 1879
Description John Clinton O'Boyce writes to Miss M. Smith to thank her for "the copies" and has sent her "Mary Lee" in return. He scathingly infers that a recent edition of the "loyal" Journal [likely the Londonderry Journal newspaper] rejected a poem or song for being too nationalistic in tone. He will send her more copies including "Lines written on the Death of Lord Leitrim" by his neighbour Patrick Frank[?] which O'Boyce commends even though written "by one of our Fanad peasantry". [John Clinton O'Boyce was a school teacher in Portsalon, Fanad and later a friend of Roger Casement. He was a Gaelic poet, scholar and pioneer of the Gaelic League in Donegal, especially in the local Irish language revival].
Date 19/02/1879
Date Issued 27/03/2023
Resource Type Text
Archival Record Id p155/67/6
Publisher University of Galway
Extent 2pp
Topic O'Callaghan Letters
Geographic Fanad,Donegal (county),Ireland,Rosnakill
Temporal Nineteenth century,Eighteen seventies
Genre Reproduction
Note Title and description by University of Galway. No typed transcript pages available. Name of collection subseries (O'Callaghan Letters) refers to letter donor.
Creator / Author Name John Clinton O'Boyce