Sidney Royse Lysaght

Sidney Royse Lysaght

Sidney Royse Lysaght (1860 - 1941) (pronounced LYE-suht) was an Irish writer, who worked in the iron industry. He was born in Cork.

He visited Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa, in 1894. Edward MacLysaght 1887-1986, writer and authority on Irish family history, was his son.

Works

*"A Modern Ideal" (1886) poems
*"The Marplot" (1893)
*"Her Majesty's Rebels" (1907) novel
*"Horizons and Landmarks" (1911) poems
*"My Tower in Desmond" (1925)
*"The Immortal Jew" (1931)
*"A reading of poetry; an essay" (1934)


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