during Cromwell’s ravages and its sequel Captain Latymer (1908) the Irish hero escapes transportation to Barbados with a clan daughter of the Irish chieftain Owen Roe O'Neill. Yet Moore's ultimate sympathies were "never in doubt." In The Truth About Ulster he asserted that New York City's Tammany Hall "acted from generation to generation for the Ulstermen to point to as an example of the form of Home Rule that is the ideal of the Irishman". The ethno-Irish Democratic-Party machine was a demonstration of the corrupt practices that would be a mark an Irish parliament. On these lines Moore wrote satires of Irish Home Rule such as Diary of an Irish Cabinet Minister (1893), The Viceroy of Muldoon and The Rise and Fall of Larry O’Lannigan JP (1893), albeit in "the gentle mould of Somerville and Ross rather than the turbulent bigotry of [the unionist leaders] Carson and Craig". Where Moore's fiction portrays Cromwell's crimes of conquest, the Lord Protector nonetheless retains the aura of "a Carlylean Great Man". His Gaels, by comparison, are "inefficient fantasists". It is suggested that Moore "feared the mass Catholicism of the western peasantry and the Belfast slums as the enemy of individual freedom and economic progress". Moore’s wife of twenty years, Alice (Balcombe) (whose sister Lucinda, married to Bram Stoker, had given him access to the theatrical world.), died in 1901. He remarried to Dorothea Hatton and moved to Lewes, Sussex. Here he wrote A Garden of Peace (1919) under the pseudonym "Frank Littlemore" which celebrated "the settled order of the English countryside". He did write a series of articles on Victorian Belfast in the Belfast Telegraph in 1924, subsequently published as Belfast by the Sea (1928). While these celebrate "the achievements of late Victorian Belfast and the traders and professionals of its main streets", the Ireland that he describes in his last work, A Mixed Grill (1930), has been described as "a country best suited to the gentlemanly pursuit of hunting, now departed." Death and legacy Moore died in Lewes in May 1931. He was survived by three daughters. After his death several of his plays were published, and some staged at The Gaiety, Dublin and The Royal in Limerick as well as in London. He is mentioned briefly in Peter Kavanagh’s book The Irish Theatre (1946). But his fiction, some of which has been compared to the adventurous tales of Jack London, seems