About John Cashel Hoey
Lived 1828 – 1892 (aged 63). John Cashel Hoey was a New Zealand and British writer and barrister.
John Baptist Cashel Hoey, (Baptised 17 July 1827 – 7 January 1892) was an Irish writer, editor, and public servant for colonial New Zealand and Australia.
Hoey was born in 1827, the eldest son of Cashel Fitzsimons Hoey, of Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland, and Charleston, South Carolina. He was educated at St. Patrick's College, Armagh, and was one of the principal writers for the Nation, and editor 1849–57, taking over from Charles Gavan Duffy, and was one of the "Young Irelanders". The couple had no children.
John Cashel Hoey died in London in 1892, aged 63.
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Irish writer, editor, and public servant
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John Cashel Hoey was born on 25 October 1828 in Dundalk.
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John Cashel Hoey died on 7 January 1892 in Kensington.
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John Cashel Hoey was a writer and barrister.
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John Cashel Hoey was New Zealand and British.
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