The Edward T. LeBlanc Memorial Dime Novel Bibliography

Item - The Collegians

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Series: Fireside Library of Popular Reading v. 8 no. 99
Alternate Title: The Colleen Bawn. A Tale of Garryowen
Part of: Fireside Library, v. VIII, no. 99, June 16, 1881 (Issue)
Author: Griffin, Gerald, 1803-1840
Date: June 16, 1881
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"Published as 'The Collegians' in 1829, and upon this was based Boucicault's play, 'Colleen Bawn' (the blond girl).

Eily O'Connor, the daughter of a rope-maker of Garryowen, secretly marries Hardress Cregan. They are shipwrecked and quarrel over Hardress' attentions to another woman. When Eily is drowned, he suffers remorse."--Johannsen, A. House of Beadle and Adams

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