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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.

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

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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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