"GEORGE BIRMINGHAM A., pen-name of James Owen Hannay (1865-), Irish novelist and playwright, who was born July 16 1865 at Belfast. He was educated at Haileybury and Trinity College, Dublin, was ordained and became a canon of St. Patrick's, Dublin, in 1912. He wrote amongst other novels: The Seething Pot (1905); Spanish Gold (1908); Lalage's Lovers (191i); The Red Hand of Ulster (1912); The Lost Tribes (1914) and Inisheeny (1920), whilst among his plays the best known is General John Regan, which was successfully produced at the Apollo theatre, London, in Jan. 1913.