DENIS FLORENCE MACCARTHY BIOGRAPHY
DENIS FLORENCE MACCARTHY BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin.
MACCARTHY, DENIS FLORENCE (1817-1882). —Poet, born at Dublin, and ed. at Maynooth with a view to the priesthood, devoted himself, however, to literature, and contributed verses to The Nation . Among his other writings are Ballads, Poems, and Lyrics (1850), The Bell Founder (1857), and Under-Glimpses . He also ed. a collection of Irish lyrics, translated Calderon, and wrote Shelley's Early Life (1872).