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* 1701, + 1749-01-22, Irish writer, poet, and lawyer
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Matthew Concanen
* 1701, + 1749-01-22, Irish writer, poet, and lawyer

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    Coteries: James Sterling; Lewis Theobald; William Warburton; A Supplement to the Profound
    Periodicals etc.: Miscellaneous Poems (1724), ed. Concanen, included his own work and that of others; dedicated to the whig Viscount Gage; the London Journal and the British Journal, 1725; Richard Savage's Miscellaneous Poems and Translations (1726); Musical Miscellany (1729); The Flower-Piece (1731), ed. Concanen; wrote in the Daily Courant
    Overall: A barrister, Concanen wrote plays, poems, and essays. In some of his works, he attacked Pope and Swift; in return, he was ridiculed by Pope in the Dunciad. The income from his political and literary endeavors enabled him to live in "affluent retirement" (DNB).