Patrick Moloney (5 works by)
Also writes as: Australis [Patrick Moloney]
Born: Established: 1843 Ireland ; Died: 21 Sep 1904 Ulverstone
Gender: Male
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BIA - Miller v.1, p.121 - Contributor to Melbourne Punch in its early days. Wrote numerous sonnets and other verses for the Australasian, as well as a series of papers headed 'Underthe Greenwood Tree'. He was 'Medicus' in J. H. White's The Box Seat, or Medicus and the Shroff (Melb, 1900). Plus more information. His 17 Sonnets : ad Innuptam were published 1879 in An Easter Omelette in Prose and Verse.

BiographyHistory

Moloney was educated at St Patrick's College, Melbourne. He was one of the first two graduates of the Melbourne University Medical School in 1867. He worked as a medical practitioner. Published one poem under the pseudonym 'Australis'.(Bertram Stevens, An Anthology of Australian Poetry, 1907 p.284) He was a friend of several of the prominent writers of the late nineteenth century - letters and manuscript poems of George Gordon McCrae, Henry Kendall, Marcus Clarke and Adam Lindsay Gordon are included in the collection of his papers detailed in the La Trobe Library Journal no. 19.