Ignatius per ignotius: the short life and extraordinary times of Frederick Gallaher
Contents
From Cork to Dublin
A plucky rescue
Life as a racing journalist
A quiet day at work
Consolidating his sporting and society credentials
Family matters and a little ruse
2 Fred's Brilliant Career with Sport and the Invincibles
The Editor of Sport
Fred Gallaher and the Phoenix Park murders: Skin the Goat Fitzharris
The assassin Kelly and a sporting bet
Information on an Invincible informer: James Carey
Back on the newspaper beat after the Phoenix Park Affair
3 More practical jokes and international sport
Another publication and a sensational hoax
Athletics, shipwreck, and America
A Dublin mover and shaker
Final years in Dublin
A telegraphic agency
Mitchell and Slavin
Family concerns
The wrong horses
Another Invincible ruse
Late Gallaher in Dubliners
The last days of an erstwhile reporter
5 Addendum:
The eccentricities of a grandfather: Patrick Frederick Gallaher
Newspapers in the blood: John Blake Gallaher
Gerald and Brendan Gallaher: the next generation
John Simpson