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Author: De-La-Cour, James

Biography:

DE-LA-COUR, James (1710-85: Saunders’s Newsletter)

He was the son of John Delacour (or De La Cour) and was born at Killowen, near Blarney in Co. Cork, in either 1709 or 1710. His mother’s name is not known. He studied at Trinity College Dublin, matriculating in 1728 and earning his MA. He was curate at Ballinaboy, Co. Cork, 1744-55, although the clerical life may not have been well suited to his temperament. He never married and suffered in old age from mental instability. His death year is sometimes given as 1781 but 1785 is confirmed by a newspaper notice. He also wrote Abelard to Eloise (1730) and The Prospect of Poetry (1734); these are both included in his Poems. The Progress of Beauty (1732), sometimes attributed to him, is not in Poems. The Prospect of Poetry was widely admired and much reprinted. (O’Donoghue; Saunders’s Newsletter 19 Apr. 1785; Journal of the Cork Archaelogical and Historical Society 3 [1894]; Bernard Burke, Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry 1 [1894])

 

Books written (1):

Cork: [no publisher: printed by Thomas White], 1778