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Recollections of an Irish Police Magistrate reads like fiction. The people are larger than life, the events too unbelievable, but they're all true. Henry Robert Addison was there, he saw the dried blood and gore at the site of the Carrickshock massacre, the torch lit rebels roaming the countryside, he heard Daniel O'Connell's sonorous voice captivate crowds of thousands, he stood under the gallows as criminals were launched into eternity, he met both the famous and infamous of his day, and he recounts it all here. The Irish Police Magistrate of the title is Thomas Phillips Vokes; who was Addison's father-in-law, after he married his daughter Mary Vokes in 1828. Vokes was the Chief Police Mag...
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In its first edition Dictionary of Literary Pseudonyms established itself as a comprehensive dictionary of pseudonyms used by literary writers in English from the 16th century to the present day. This new Second Edition increases coverage by 35%! There are two sequences: Part I - which now includes more than 17,000 entries- is an alphabetical list of pseudonyms followed by the writer's real name. Part II is an alphabetical list of writers cited in Part I-more than 10,000 writers included-providing brief biographical details followed by pseudonyms used by the wrter and titles published under those pseudonyms. Dictionary or Literary Pseudonyms has now become a standard reference work on the subject for teachers, student, and public, high school, and college/universal librarians. The Second Edition will, we believe, consolidate that reputation.
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