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(1798-1842) Novelist, brother of Michael Banim, born Kilkenny; died there. His works include the well-known poems Soggarth Aroon, Damon and Pythias, a tragedy, several romances, and about half of the O'Hara tales. The Banims rank as the leading Irish national novelists. Their purpose was to do for Ireland what Walter Scott did for Scotland.