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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: John and Michael Banim |
 | | His last work was the revision of a story which he had inspired and encouraged his brother to write, "Father Connell", the picture of his beloved parish priest of Kilkenny. |
 | | He died in his own Windgap Cottage, just outside Kilkenny, at the early age of forty-four. |
 | | His principal works are: the poems, "Soggarth Aroon", "Aileen", "The Celt's Paradise"; the dramas, "Damon and Pythias" and "The Prodigal"; and the novels, "John Doe", "The Fetches", "Peter of the Castle", "The Mayor of Windgap", and "The Boyne Water", the last a political novel. |
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