Monaghan Verse: An Exile Remembers
Sometime after completing Chapter Five and, in passing, mentioning the identity of J. Nunn, I happened across a possible reference to the gentleman. It may be found at http://www.exis.net/ahd/monaghan. (Click on “Monaghan Names in Verse.”)
The verse itself, rather lengthy, was printed in Toronto newspaper in 1879 and “refers to Monaghan as it was fifty years earlier [1849] (sic), at the height of the Catholic Emancipation Controversy.” It is from a booklet, “A Souvenir of Monaghan,” Oct 1968.
The verse itself mentions upwards of three hundred names of Monaghan locals; it is subdivided into categories: mercantile, professional, bakers, butchers, blacksmiths, sawyers, deformed citizens, miscellaneous. Under the subdivision ‘Professional,’ the following was extracted:
" Flemming, Reilly, Mitchell, Wright,
Swanzy, Dudgeon, Nunn and Knight,
Attorneys always silly grinning
While they their clients cash were winning."