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John Banim
Irish author
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- In John and Michael Banim
John studied drawing in Dublin and subsequently taught it in Kilkenny. Shortly afterward he went to Dublin, where he earned a living by journalism. In 1821 his blank verse tragedy, Damon and Pythias, was produced at Covent Garden; John married, moved to London, and continued…
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contribution to Irish literature
- In Irish literature: Roman Catholic writers
Brothers John and Michael Banim, who sometimes published jointly under the pseudonym “the O’Hara Brothers,” produced a series of novels and tales often historical and always politically pessimistic, as are John’s The Boyne Water (1826), set in Ulster during the Jacobite war of 1688–91, and Michael’s…
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