I have just had my 60th virthday and friends bought me a copy of Irish Songs and Ballads (1880) by Alfred P. Graves.

I was interested to read in the preface that he lived in Huddersfield at the time the book was published and would like to know more about him, but apart from a few of his songs and poems the internet has very little information on the man himself.

Can anyone help ........ who/what was he? I'd love to know