James Jeffrey Roche

James Jeffrey Roche

James Jeffrey Roche (31 May 1847, Mountmellick, Queen's County, Ireland – 3 April 1908, Berne, Switzerland) was an Irish-American poet, journalist and diplomat.O'Donoghue, D. J., "The poets of Ireland", 1912.]

Roche was taken to the United States as a young child, and grew up in Prince Edward Island. In 1883 he joined the staff of the Boston "Pilot" as an assistant editor under John Boyle O'Reilly, and later became editor of the newspaper. At the end of his life he was the American Consul in Switzerland.

Works

*"Songs and satires", Boston & Cambridge (USA), 1887
*"Ballads of blue water", Boston, 1895
*"The vase and other bric-a-brac", 1900
*"Her Majesty the King: A Romance of the Harem", 1901

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