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Sidney Royse Lysaght
1856–1941
An Irish-born writer who balanced business life with a steady literary career, he wrote poetry, novels, and plays shaped by Anglo-Irish roots and a wide-ranging life. His story also brushes against literary history through a visit to Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa.
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Horizons and landmarks : Poems
by Sidney Royse Lysaght
About the author
Born near Mallow, County Cork, in 1856, Sidney Royse Lysaght came from a long-established Anglo-Irish family. He was the son of architect Thomas Royse Lysaght and Emily Moss, and he later worked in the family iron business, John Lysaght & Co., in the Bristol area.
Alongside his business career, he built a substantial life in literature as a poet, novelist, and playwright. Sources describe him as a writer of Irish ancestry whose work included poetry and fiction, and he was known enough in literary circles to visit Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa in 1894.
Lysaght lived into 1941, leaving behind a varied career that mixed commerce, travel, and writing. He is also remembered as the father of Edward MacLysaght, the noted Irish genealogist and writer, which gives his family an added place in Irish literary and cultural history.