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John and Michael Banim

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Quick Facts John and Michael Banim were brothers who collaborated in novels and stories of Irish peasant life. John studied drawing in Dublin and subsequently taught it in Kilkenny. Shortly afterward he went to Dublin, where he earned a living by journalism. In 1821 his blank verse tragedy, Damon and Pythias, was produced at Covent Garden; John married, moved to London, and continued to live by journalism. In 1825 there appeared Tales, by the O’Hara...

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