Milliken (or Millikin), Richard Alfred (1767-1815), author of the burlesque poem ‘The Groves of Blarney’. Born in Castlemartyr, Co. Cork, he became a Dublin solicitor and published some poetry, fiction, and drama, including The Slave of Surinam (1810), a tale of cruelty, and Darby in Arms (1810), an Irish affray which played in Dublin. The poem for which he is remembered is a mock-idyll concerning the well-appointed estate of Lady Arabella Jeffreys, proprietor of Blarney Castle.