Robert Owenson

Olivia's father, Robert Owenson , was an actor-manager who dreamed of establishing an Irish nationalist theatre, but went bankrupt in the same year that his wife died.

Robert Owenson re-opened the refurbished Old Fishamble Street Music Hall in Dublin with what his daughter Sydney called an altogether national entertainment, patronised by the Irish Volunteers .

Sydney's father was the actor-manager Robert Owenson , who had nominally converted to Protestantism and anglicised his name from MacOwen in an attempt to secure acting work in England, where at the time of Sydney's...

Owenson says she has snatched these poems from oblivion and bound them in a wreath; she may have found the flower imagery in the analogous work of Charlotte Brooke . In fact she translated songs...