John Boyce
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John Boyce (1810 – 1 January 1864) was an Irish Roman Catholic priest, novelist and lecturer, known under the pen name of "Paul Peppergrass".[1]
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Biography
John Boyce was born in Donegal, the son of Jerome Boyce. His father was the wealthy proprietor of the principal hotel in the town and a magistrate of the county. John entered the preparatory seminary in Navan, County Meath, and graduated with the highest honours in rhetoric and philosophy. He completed his studies at St Patrick's College, Maynooth and was ordained priest in 1837. For eight years he worked on the Irish mission, but in 1845 moved to America. From Eastport, Maine, the scene of his first missionary work, he was transferred in 1847 to St. John's Catholic Church, Worcester, where he remained until his death.
John Boyce died in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Published works
- Shanty Maguire, or Tricks upon Travellers (New York, 1848), which was dramatized by "J. Pilgrim";
- The Spaewife, or the Queen's Secret (Baltimore, 1853), a novel featuring the Völva, a figure in Northern European pagan mythology;
- Mary Lee or the Yankee in Ireland (1859), first published serially in the "Metropolitan Magazine" of Baltimore.
Besides these books he contributed to the editorial columns of the Boston Pilot, wrote many sketches and criticisms which appeared in print, and a lecture on "The Satisfying Influence of Catholicity on the Intellect and Senses", delivered before the Catholic Institute in New York in 1851.
Notes
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References
- Anon. (1860). "The Yankee in Ireland," Brownson's Quarterly Review, Vol. I, pp. 118–30.
- Earls, Michael (1924). "The First Catholic Novelist in New England," United States Catholic Historical Society, Vol. XVI, pp. 32–53.
- Maume, Patrick (2005). "Father Boyce, Lady Morgan, and Sir Walter Scott: A Study in Intertextuality and Catholic Polemics." In: James H. Murphy, ed., Evangelicals and Catholics in Nineteenth-century Ireland. Dublin: Four Courts, pp. 165–78.
- McLaughlin, J. Fairfax (1903). "A Study of Dr. Brownson," The Catholic World, Vol. LXXVII, No. 459, pp. 310–19.
- Murphy, James H. (2011). Irish Novelists and the Victorian Age. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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- ↑ O'Hanrahan, Brenda (1982). Donegal Authors: A Bibliography. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, pp. 35–36.
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