⸺ EVA; or, the Buried City of Bannow.
Mentioned in the notice of this Author in O’Donoghue’s Poets of Ireland.
[HARDY, Miss].
⸺ MICHAEL CASSIDY; or, The Cottage Gardener: a tale for small beginners. (Seeley). [1840]. 1845.
By the Author of “The Confessor: a Jesuit tale of the times founded on fact” [viz., Miss Hardy]. Cushing. The 1845 ed. has a Pref. by C. B. Tayler. It is an attempt to urge people to small allotments, green crops, rotation, economy, and hard work.
HARDY, Philip Dixon. c. 1794-1875. Was a bookseller and editor of various Dublin periodicals. Publ. several volumes of verse, some books on Irish topography, and some religious works of a strongly anti-Catholic character.
⸺ LEGENDS, TALES, AND STORIES OF IRELAND. Pp. 328. (Dublin: John Cumming). 1837.
Dedicated to Sir W. Betham. Hardy was the first editor of the Dublin Penny Journal. His tales of Irish life deal with fairies, faction-fights, smugglers, and burlesque or tragic adventures in a manner by no means without vivacity and cleverness, though the trail of the “stage-Irishman” is over most of his work. This edition was illustrated in a somewhat coarse and stage-Irish fashion. Other works of this Author were:—Essays and Sketches of Irish Life and Character; Ireland in 1846-7, considered in reference to the rapid growth of Popery, and several works on Irish topography.
HARKIN, Hugh (1791-1854). For good account of this writer supplied by his son, see O’Donoghue’s Poets of Ireland.