Patrick Shanahan Patrick Shanahan i(A77037 works by) (a.k.a. P. Shanahan)
Gender: Male
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1 A Reminiscence of Power the Bushranger Patrick Shanahan , 1877 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , May vol. 12 no. 144 1877; (p. 453-455) A trooper becomes lost in the Victorian bush near Mansfield, searching for the bushranger Harry Power - and is rescued by Power himself. Odd parallel tale of the history of the trooper's horse - the two parts not quite fitting together. Possibly autobiographically based. (PB)
1 Maud Ellis Patrick Shanahan , 1877 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , March vol. 12 no. 142 1877; (p. 344-347) A mysterious and beautiful singer at a country concert near Myrniong, Victoria, enslaves three of the four literary and artistic protagonists. But the fourth, a French artist, recognises her as the murdress of his brother in Paris. Tone swings from masculine literary mateship to melodramatic adventure. (PB)
1 The Medallion Locket Patrick Shanahan , 1877 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , September vol. 13 no. 148 1877; (p. 24-25) Bachelors from an Epicurean Club in a Victorian township, survive an the parson's attempt to close them down through the discovery of his niece's locket after one of their concerts. (PB)
1 Romance and Reality Patrick Shanahan , 1876 single work short story Set in Melbourne in the 1850s, a tale of cock-fighting, gambling, politics, newspapers, and hunting among the well-bred citizens - men and women. Includes the aristocratic Spanish owner of the Philadelphia Hotel (an élite gambling den), and his beautiful sister Antonio, the Irish Kirwans and Joe Dunlea, Kevin Conway (the Times editor); MPs; romantic, brave and faithful ladies; mesmerism; piracy; murder etc. Interesting for its treatment of violent and bloody sports and the involvement of women in its political, sporting and social concerns. (PB)
1 For Love Or Money? Patrick Shanahan , 1876 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , March vol. 11 no. 130 1876; (p. 366-371) The Victorian squatter, handsome, generous Ned Dalton, loses his wealth and his fiancee when his Arab hunter falls on him during a steeplechase and loses the race. With fortunes restored in Europe he returns seven years later with his faithful groom to the outback. He finds his former love married to a poor French, disinherited by her father, and returns quickly to Europe, scornful yet loving her still. Well told, with strong descriptions of the Melbourne Hunt Club environment, etc. Dalton's adventures in Europe are rather romanticised. Includes a defence of Australian/colonial life against the quick judgements of visitors such as Trollope. (PB)
1 The Flower-Girl Patrick Shanahan , 1876 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , March vol. 11 no. 130 1876; (p. 356-358) Of Max O'Leary, one of Melbourne's 'fast young men' and his pure love for Nelly Moore, the poor flower-girl at the Eastern Market on Bourke Street. Society's gossip separates them but they meet again as she is dying in 1870. (PB)
1 Breach-of-Promise Reeves : A Parlour Story Patrick Shanahan , 1876 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , April vol. 11 no. 131 1876; (p. 423-424) The life and death of B.O.P Reeves, artist - wooing women in Scandalville and forced to flee to Paris. (PB)
1 La Petite Blonde Patrick Shanahan , 1876 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , April vol. 11 no. 131 1876; (p. 413-415) A Melbourne law student falls in love with the niece of a French actress visiting Melboune. 'La Petite Blonde' promises to marry him in two years but by then is a famous opera singer and has a married a London novelist ... (PB)
1 The Bushranger's Revenge (II) Patrick Shanahan , 1876 single work prose
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , June vol. 11 no. 133 1876; (p. 548) The story is concluded by the June issue with a small portion left off by accident. An editor's note indicates that Wilson was a bushranger, but in Maitland (shot in 1857) not in Albury as the tale relates. (PB)
1 The Bushranger's Revenge Patrick Shanahan , 1876 series - author prose
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , May vol. 11 no. 132 1876; (p. 472) Tale related by an Irish trooper in search of the NSW bushranger Lowry on the road to Melbourne. Recounts the robbery, derring-do, and domestic revenge of an earlier Victorian bushranger - Wilson. (PB)
1 Outward Bound : A Tale of Sea and Shore Patrick Shanahan , 1876 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , July vol. 11 no. 134 1876; (p. 604-609) The story of an Australian hotel-keeper's daughter who signs on as a sailor from Williamstown to San Francisco rather than give evidence against her beloved, accused of murder ... (PB)
1 Fortune and Misfortune Patrick Shanahan , 1876 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , November vol. 12 no. 138 1876; (p. 121-123) Jerky tale of a half-brother and sister, children of a Tasmanian convict, who meet coincidentally in Kilmore, Victoria, and of their subsequent lives. (PB)
1 The Haunted House Patrick Shanahan , 1875 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , October vol. 11 no. 125 1875; (p. 83-84) A ghost in Easyville's Moreton Hall can not rest until a murder committed in life is revealed. "L'Envoi", pp. 83-84, ends the Chronicles of Easyville with the end of the manuscript. (PB)
1 Tim Mulvaney's First Love Patrick Shanahan , 1875 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , September vol. 11 no. 124 1875; (p. 18-20) Tale in Irish accent of the quarrelling Mulvaneys and of Tim's first disappointment in love on the New Year's Day Easyville picnic. (PB)
1 The Wronged and the Wronger Patrick Shanahan , 1875 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , July vol. 10 no. 122 1875; (p. 611-612) A famous artist loves and seduces an Easyville maiden but cannot marry her because he is already married. She bears a child and dies, he follows years later ... the child remains. Small oddities (e. g. the lovers speak Spanish and English) but a conventional tale. (PB)
1 My Friend D'Arcy Patrick Shanahan , 1875 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , May vol. 10 no. 120 1875; (p. 498-500) How the narrator meets the 'wild' bachelor D'Arcy in Easyville, becoming friends; and how he is rejected by four of the local belles before he dyes his red hair black. (PB)
1 A Strange Dream Patrick Shanahan , 1875 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , April vol. 10 no. 119 1875; (p. 438-440) The narrator dreams of the thief who robs him - and meets the half-mad balladeer Dan O'Toole selling his songs, other books etc. (PB)
1 The Strange Unknown Patrick Shanahan , 1875 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , March vol. 10 no. 118 1875; (p. 386-388) Two meetings with a 'strange unknown' Frenchman, the first in Easyville the second in Pitt Street Sydney, convince the narrator of his uncanny powers - especially as he foretells the loss and then the death of the narrator's beloved in Easyville. (PB)
1 Chronicles of Easyville Patrick Shanahan , 1875 series - author short story
— Appears in: Australian Hauntings : Colonial Supernatural Fiction 2011; Australian Hauntings : Colonial Supernatural Fiction 2013; (p. 140-153) A visitor to the Victorian country township of Easyville discovers a bundle of manuscripts in his hotel room.
1 Fleur-de-lis : A Doctor's Story Patrick Shanahan , 1875 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , December vol. 11 no. 127 1875; (p. 190-192) Story of an acquaintance of the doctor-narrator whom he had saved from an Aboriginal attack years before. Meeting in Melbourne he hears of the youth's restoration to his French father and his inheritance; and later of his subsequent death, and the murder of his wife and son ... (PB)
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