A Tour in Connaught

by Caesar Otway

Overview

Comprising sketches of Clonmacnoise, Joyce country and Achill.

Dublin to Kinnegad - Gaulstown to Athlone - Aughrim - Ahascragh - Cong - the Settlement and more.

Originally published 1839. Illustrated.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940012863577
Publisher:	RBerry
Publication date:	07/11/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	851 KB

About the Author

Caesar Otway (1780–1842) was born in Nenagh, Co. Tipperary in 1780. In 1803 he married Francis Hastings with who he had five children, John Hastings Otway, Caesar George Otway, Loftus Otway, Jane Otway and Frances Otway.

In 1810 he graduated from Trinity College, Dublin with holy orders (became a clergyman of the Church of Ireland). He worked as a parish clergyman for seventeen years before becoming assistant chaplain at the Magdalen Asylum in Dublin. When his wife died in 1833 he remarried. His second wife was Elizabeth la Touche, daughter of James Digges la Touche of Dublin, on 17 January 1837.

He is best remembered as a writer of Irish tales. His writings, which display humour and sympathy with the poorer classes in Ireland, include Sketches in Ireland (1827), Sketches in Erris and Tyrawley and A Tour in Connaught (1839). He was a good friend of the writer William Carleton and was involved in the establishment of various journals during his lifetime.

He died on 16 March 1842 in Dublin at the age of sixty-three.