Francis Sylvester Mahony was born in Cork, Ireland, on 31 December 1805, and died in Paris on 18 May 1866. He is remembered under the name “Father Prout,” the comic clerical persona through which he produced some of the most ingenious literary journalism of the nineteenth century. Yet the witty priest of Watergrasshill, the supposed author of multilingual songs, mock-antiquarian discoveries, and extravagant literary…
“a rare combination of the Teian lyre and the Irish bagpipe; of the Ionian dialect, blending harmoniously with the Cork brogue; an Irish potato seasoned with Attic salt.”
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Irish Poets, Light Verse Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Tenderness, Joy
Jeremiah Joseph Callanan, born in 1795 and dead on 19 September 1839, occupies a distinctive if sometimes precarious place in the history of nineteenth-century Irish poetry. He is remembered above all for poems that gave English-language readers access to the emotional force, compressed imagery, and historical sorrow of Irish Gaelic song. His best-known pieces, including “The Outlaw of Loch Lene,” “The Dirge of O’Sul…
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Irish Poets, Nature Poets, Romantic Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Tenderness, Sorrow
