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Irish-born fencing master active in the German-speaking lands, author of the illustrated Neu Alamodische Ritterliche Fecht- und Schirm-Kunst (1715), with a later 1729 edition. The separate 1706 Geöffnete Fecht-Boden is not attributed to him here.
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Irish-born poet and novelist, daughter of dramatist John O’Keeffe. Her final historical novel was The Broken Sword; or, A Soldier’s Honour, published in 1854.
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Dublin Custom House official and author of the revised and enlarged 1787 manual The Art of Fencing, or the Use of the Small Sword. No secure life dates are presently known.
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Irish Church of Ireland clergyman and writer, friend of Jonathan Swift, and author of Sixteen Discourses, whose tenth sermon condemns duelling.
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Irish clergyman identified by Thimm as the author of the 1843 Dublin pamphlet Duelling. No secure life dates are presently established.
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Irish barrister, parliamentarian, judge and memoirist who opposed the Act of Union. Sir Jonah Barrington wrote vivid but sometimes unreliable accounts of Georgian Irish political and social life, including Personal Sketches of His Own Times.
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Irish novelist, travel writer, journalist and diplomat. Thomas Colley Grattan wrote historical fiction and accounts of continental Europe and served as British consul at Boston; the linked periodical contribution treats German duelling customs.
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