“None but exalted spirits, who can calmly look down upon human events and human frailties as from an eminence, are capable of unalterable friendship.”
About James Clarence Mangan
1 May 1803–20 June 1849
In the pantheon of Irish literature, few figures are as tragically compelling or as artistically brilliant as James Clarence Mangan. Born into poverty and dying in destitution, Mangan lived a life that reads like one of his own melancholic verses—filled with promise, haunted by despair, and ultimately cut short by the…