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Michael Banim
Irish author
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- In John and Michael Banim
…Family, written in collaboration with Michael, who had studied for the bar but had had to take over his father’s business. All three Tales—two by John, The Fetches and John Doe, and one by Michael, Crohoore of the Bill Hook—are remarkable for their melodramatic invention and were immediately successful, John…
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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 vivid The…
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