Edward Lysaght

Edward Lysaght

LYSAGHT, EDWARD (1763–1811), Irish song-writer, born 21 Dec. 1763, was the son of John Lysaght of Brickhill, a gentleman of good protestant family in co. Clare. He was incorporated in the same degree at Oxford (19 Oct. 1787) as a member of St. Edmund Hall, and proceeded M.A. at Oxford in 1788. In 1784 he became a student at the Middle Temple, London, and at the King's Inns, Dublin. joined Irish Volunteers and opposed the Act of Union; appt. commissioner of bankruptcy, and police magistrate for Dublin; wrote pol. squibs and pamphlets; his Poems (1811) were published posthumously; erroneously accredited with authorship of “Humours of Donnybrook Fair”, actually by Charles O’Flaherty. Lysaght died in 1811 in very embarrassed circumstances.

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