Publisher's Synopsis
An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street by J. Sheridan Le Fanu An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street By J. Sheridan Le Fanu Novelist, son of a Dean of the Episcopal Church of Ireland, and grand-nephew of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and became a contributor and ultimately proprietor of the Dublin University Magazine, in which many of his novels made their first appearance. Called to the Bar in 1839, he did not practise, and was first brought into notice by two ballads, Phaudrig Croohoore and Shamus O'Brien, which had extraordinary popularity.