John Banim
John Banim ( born April 3, 1798 in Kilkenny, Ireland; † August 13, 1842 in Windgap Cottage in Kilkenny, Ireland) was an Irish writer who primarily by its style similar to Walter Scott Tales of the O'Hara Family ( stories about the family O'Hara ) liked. As a pseudonym he chose the name Barnes O'Hara. He was only 44 years old.
Life and work
John Banim, son of a farmer and shopkeeper, trying at the age of ten years, in verse and stories. From the age of 13 he attended the Kilkenny College and was particularly interested in painting and drawing. After two years studying art in Dublin, where he worked as a portrait painter, he returned as an art teacher back in his hometown. His love affair with a student mark was prevented by their parents; allegedly died, the young woman after two months of a broken heart. In addition to tuberculosis Banims early death is also on this disaster that took him very recycled. A year later, he went back to Dublin in 1820 to operate literarily. In 1821 he wrote the patriotic poem The Celt 's Paradise. His tragedy Damon and Pythias was performed in the same year successfully in Covent Garden ( London). During a brief visit to Kilkenny John Banim married and took off in 1822 with his older brother Michael, the Tales of the O'Hara Family in attack, which describe the Irish people life. These notices the Catholic Encyclopedia, the respective shares of the brothers on this voluminous narrative work could be observed any more. Your intention was for the Irish to pay the same as what Walter Scott's Waverley Novels had given the Scots: the true image of her national character with all the light and dark sides.
1822 John Banim went to London to seek his fortune. There, he earned money by writing for magazines and theater. In 1824 he anonymously published the essay collection Revelations of the Dead Alive. Then he reaped the first Tales of the O'Hara Family, as they appeared in April 1825, immediately applauded. The piece contained therein Crohoore of the Bill Hook is by Michael Banim; it was in 1828 The dwarf translated by Lucie Domeier under the title into German. 1826 appeared a second series of Tales. In the novel, The Boyne Water ( 1826) is narrated by the great crisis of the year 1690, died of Catholic Ireland. In The Denounced (1830 ), the time of the oppression of Ireland under William III. described.
However deteriorated since John Banims health condition, so that the other Tales of the O'Hara Family were written almost entirely by his brother. Soon he had to live in very modest circumstances. An attempt his ailing health to improve by a trip to France (1829 ), failed. While he was abroad, the English press, especially John Sterling tried in The Times, raise money for Banim, to free him from his greatest financial need, which attempt was crowned with success. 1835 John Banim returned to his homeland to settle down in a cottage on the outskirts of Kilkenny. The Irish government appointed him in 1836 in view of his illness and his literary merits of a pension of 150 pounds, which will also benefit the education of his daughter. Banim died in his Windgap Cottage on August 13, 1842 His brother Michael followed him -. According to business failures and other books - 1874.
For the Encyclopædia Britannica of 1911 is the essential power of the brothers Banim in the fundamental Tales of the O'Hara Family of the 1820s; all later works are advised to prolix and remembered too obvious to the Waverly Novels by Scott. The passions and contradictions of Irish peasants were rarely represented truly and skillfully as in those first valley, which would have to offer in addition to often startling incidents and terrible events. In contrast, they dedicated to the lighter, cheerful side of the Irish character, which appears so strongly in Samuel Lover, little attention.
Works
Dramas
- The Sargeant 's Wife, London 1824
Poetry
- The Celt 's Paradise, London 1821
- Chaunt of the cholera: Songs for Ireland, London 1831
Prose
- Revelations of the Dead Alive ( essays ), London 1824
- Tales by the O'Hara Family, Front Row, London 1825 The fetches
- John Doe
- The Nowlans ( German translation of Adolf Wagner, Leipzig 1835)
- Peter of the Castle ( German Leipzig 1834)
( Part of the prose books with Michael Banim! )