Joseph Cooper Walker

Averill Buchanan (Independent Scholar - Europe)

Ed. by Ian Campbell Ross, Trinity College Dublin
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.4: Irish Writing and Culture, 400-present.
Vol. editors: Anne Markey (Dublin City University), Ian Campbell Ross (Trinity College Dublin), Eoghan Smith (Carlow College), Sinéad Sturgeon (Queen's University Belfast)

Dates

Born 1761
Died 1810
Activity 1786-1810

Places

Born in Ireland, Republic of (Eire)
Active in Ireland, Republic of (Eire)

Activities

Primary

Antiquarian/ Collector
Literary Critic/ Historian

Resources

Walker's Works

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Joseph Cooper Walker was an Anglo-Irish antiquarian working during one of the most exciting periods in Irish cultural and political history. Today, he is is best-known for his earliest work,

Historical Memoirs of the Irish Bard

(1786), a pioneering study of the Irish cultural past.

Walker was the eldest of three children born to Cooper Walker (1725-1799), a Dublin cabinet-maker, and his wife (and second cousin), Mary Gordon. He was educated in Dublin by the Rev. Thomas Ball, but also received private tutoring at Castle Dawson, Blackrock, where, as an asthma sufferer, he was probably sent for the sea air. Unlike his brother, Samuel, he did not go to university, and worked instead as a clerk in the Irish treasury at Dublin Castle. In the summer of 1782 he travelled through England with the

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Citation: Buchanan, Averill. "Joseph Cooper Walker". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 21 March 2007 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=11782, accessed 31 October 2024.]

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