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3 unusual facts about William John Fitzpatrick


William John Fitzpatrick

In 1866, in The Sham Squire, he followed up the story of Lord Edward Fitzgerald's betrayal.

FitzPatrick was long actively interested in the work of the Royal Irish Academy and the Royal Dublin Society.

It was a weak attempt to foster a charge of unacknowledged plagiarism on Sir Walter Scott, and to claim for the novelist's brother, Thomas Scott, the chief credit for a large part of the famous Waverley series; but after four letters had appeared, the editor declined to publish any more.



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