Sidney Royse Lysaght

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Sidney Royse Lysaght (1860 - 1941) (pronounced LYE-suht) was an Irish writer, who worked in the iron industry. He was born in Cork.

He visited Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa, in 1894. Edward MacLysaght 1887-1986, writer and authority on Irish family history, was his son.

[edit] Works

  • A Modern Ideal (1886) poems
  • The Marplot (1893)
  • Her Majesty's Rebels (1907) novel
  • Horizons and Landmarks (1911) poems
  • My Tower in Desmond (1925)
  • The Immortal Jew (1931)
  • A reading of poetry; an essay (1934)