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Alexander Corkey
1871–1914
An Irish-born preacher who spent his later years in the American Midwest, he wrote fiction and nonfiction shaped by religion, travel, and public life. His books move from Ireland’s landscapes and politics to small-town American faith and reform.
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The truth about Ireland : or, Through the Emerald Isle with an aeroplane
by Alexander Corkey
About the author
Born on October 27, 1871, in Glendermot, County Londonderry, Alexander Corkey was an Irish-born minister and writer. Available records show that he later lived in places including Kalamazoo, Michigan; towns in Iowa; and Wayne, Nebraska, where he spent the later part of his life as a preacher.
Corkey wrote across several genres. His known books include The Truth About Ireland: or, Through the Emerald Isle with an Aeroplane (1910), The Victory of Allan Rutledge (1910), The Testing Fire (1911), and The Vision of Joy (1913). The range of those titles suggests a writer interested both in Irish public questions and in stories of belief, character, and community in the American Midwest.
He died in 1914, still relatively young. Contemporary notices remembered him as a gifted minister as well as an author, and his work survives as part of an early-20th-century world where preaching, travel writing, and popular fiction could sit side by side.