Ross, Ian Campbell

Kelly, Dominick (d. 1806), poet, novelist and physician, was most likely a native of Ballyglass, Co. Roscommon. Kelly’s early life is obscure, though he was a medical student in Edinburgh in the late-1750s and is recorded as being in Brussels in 1760, suggesting that he travelled to the…

Sterne, Laurence (1713–68), novelist and clergyman, was born 24 November 1713 in Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, where his father, Roger (1683–1731), an ensign in the 34th Regiment of Foot, had been posted following the treaty of Utrecht, and where he had recently arrived from Flanders, along…