Lynn C. Doyle

Doyle, Lynn C. (pseudonym of Leslie Alexander Montgomery) (1873-1961), comic writer. Born in Downpatrick, Co. Down, he was a bank manager in Dundalk. He wrote some plays for the Ulster Literary Theatre, notably Love and the Land (1927), and produced a series of humorous Hiberno-English stories set in a fictional townland named after Slieve Gullion. Among these are Ballygullion (1908), Mr Wildridge of the Bank (1916), Me and Mr. Murphy (1930), The Shake of the Bag (1939), A Bowl of Broth (1945), and The Ballygullion Bus (1957), a compendium. An Ulster Childhood (1921) is autobiographical.