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Thomas Colley Grattan

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Thomas Colley Grattan


Born
Dublin, Ireland
Died
July 04, 1864

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Thomas Colley Grattan was an Irish miscellaneous writer.

Born in Dublin, he was educated for the law, but did not practise it and instead joined the Louth militia with the eventual aim of getting a commission in the British Army. Having been unsuccessful in this venture, in 1818 he set off for South America via Bordeaux. On his passage he met and married Miss Eliza O'Donnel, with whom he remained in the city.

Here he commenced the profession of an author, his first work being Philibert, an octo-syllabic poem in six cantos. In a short time he moved to Paris, where he made the acquaintance of Moore, Washington Irving, Thiers, Béranger, Lamartine, and other distinguished literary men, and became a constant contributor to the Westminster Review,
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