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J. Bowles (John Bowles) Daly

A Church of Ireland clergyman who also wrote history and fiction, he published works on Irish industry, radical politics, and the 1798 rising. His range suggests a writer drawn to both public life and the human stories behind it.

1 Audiobook

Ireland in the Days of Dean Swift (Irish Tracts, 1720 to 1734)

Ireland in the Days of Dean Swift (Irish Tracts, 1720 to 1734)

by J. Bowles (John Bowles) Daly, Jonathan Swift

About the author

John Bowles Daly wrote under the name J. Bowles Daly. Sources available here identify him as the author of books including Glimpses of Irish Industries, The Dawn of Radicalism, Radical Pioneers, Broken Ideals, Ireland in '98, and Indian Sketches and Rambles.

A Victorian Research listing also places him among clergy authors, indicating that he was an ordained clergyman in the Church of England or Church of Ireland. Taken together, the record suggests a writer whose interests reached across religion, Irish history, politics, travel, and fiction.

Reliable portrait information was not clearly available from the pages found, so no image is included.