Michael Joseph Barry (1817 – 23 January 1889) was an

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poet, author, and political figure.

Life and career

Born in Cork, Ireland, Barry was imprisoned in 1843 as a

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. That year an 1843 essay on repeal won the

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prize. He published his Kishoge Papers in ''

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'' anonymously, later as "Bouillon de Garçon." He also published under the names "B.", "B.J.", "Beta", and "Brutus". He recanted his early political views late in life and became a police magistrate in

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.McCarthy, Justin and Maurice Francis Egan, Charles Welsh, Douglas Hyde, Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche (1904). ''Irish Literature.'' J. D. Morris & Company

Works

Books included: *''A Waterloo Commemoration'' *''Echoes from Parnassus'' *''Lays of the War'' *''Six Songs of a Beranger'' *''Heinrich and Leonore, an Alpine Story'' *''Ireland, as She Was, as She Is, and as She Shall Be'' *''Irish Emigration Considered'' *''Songs of Ireland'' (editor with Thomas Osborne Davis)

References

1817 births 1889 deaths 19th-century Irish poets {{Ireland-poet-stub