Lyon, E D
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1825-1891) UK soldier, Governor of Dublin District Military Prison 1854-1856; commercial photographer from 1865 in India and elsewhere; and author whose Near Future sf novel, Ireland's Dream: A Romance of the Future (1888 2vols), set in a chaotic independent Ireland; its depiction of the consequences of the end of British rule (see Politics) is savagely unfriendly to the Irish, confessing inter alia to a spreading apprehension among many writers and thinkers that the British Empire was thinly stretched over some apocalypse to come. [JC]
Captain Edmund David Lyon
born 1825
died Graunden, Austria: 19 July 1891
works
- Ireland's Dream: A Romance of the Future (London: Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey and Co, 1888) [published in two volumes: hb/]
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