Leonard McNally
Irish writer and spy
Leonard McNally or MacNally (27 September 1752 – 13 February 1820) was an Irish barrister, playwright, lyricist, founding member of the United Irishmen and spy for the British Government within Irish republican circles.
Quotes
edit- This lass so neat, with smiles so sweet,
Has won my right good-will,
I’d crowns resign to call thee mine,
Sweet lass of Richmond Hill.- "The Lass of Richmond Hill", st. 2, in E. Duncan, Minstrelsy of England (1905), vol. 1, p. 254
- Attributed also to W. Upton in Oxford Song Book, and to W. Hudson in Baring-Gould, English Minstrelsie (1895), vol. 3, p. 54
