James friel biography

          James Friel, the son of John and Rose Friel, of Killygordon, Co. Donegal, Eire, enlisted into the Royal Irish Fusiliers, and then volunteered for the.

          James Friel was born in the northwest of England to Irish parents from Donegal, his mother being a native Gaelic speaker..

          FRIEL, HENRY JAMES, journalist, politician, and public servant; b. 1823 at Montreal, son of Charles Friel; d. 16 May 1869 at Ottawa, Ont.

          Henry James Friel was born of Irish Catholic parents.

          In 1827 the family moved to Bytown (Ottawa), Upper Canada, where Charles Friel operated a general store. Orphaned in the 1830s, Henry Friel apprenticed to Alexander James Christie*, proprietor of the Bytown Gazette.

          James Friel is the author of The Posthumous Affair, The Higher Realm, Left of North, Taking the Veil and Careless Talk.

        1. FRIEL, HENRY JAMES, journalist, politician, and public servant; b.
        2. James Friel was born in the northwest of England to Irish parents from Donegal, his mother being a native Gaelic speaker.
        3. Friel, (James) Redmond (–79), composer, arranger, teacher, and church musician, was born 13 February in Duke Street, Derry.
        4. Henry James Friel (15 April – 16 May ) was mayor of Bytown in and then of Ottawa in and – He was born in Montreal to Irish Catholic.

          5. Friel proved to have all of the qualities necessary for a 19th century journalist: he was intensely political, he had an instinct for controversy, and he wrote well. His literary career began in 1845–46, when he contributed four articles on the Ottawa valley to the Montreal magazine, the Literary Garland.

          They confirm the judgement of the contemporary critic, Henry James Morgan*, that Friel was “a terse and vigorous writer of undoubted ability.”

          In October 1846 Friel and John George Bell purchased the Bytown Packet.

          It was a noisy, controversial paper w