O'Brien, [Michael] Fitz-James [de Courcy] (1828-1862), fantasy-writer. Born in Co. Cork and raised in Castleconnell, Co. Limerick, he contributed poetry to The Nation. Moving to London at 21, he squandered a large inheritance. In New York after 1851, he wrote the stories of horror and imagination on which his place in literary history depends. They were collected in 1881.

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