“Does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into men’s work?”
About William Allingham
19 March 1824–18 November 1889
William Allingham was born on 19 March 1824 in Ballyshannon, County Donegal, a small market town at the mouth of the River Erne, and died on 18 November 1889 at Hampstead in London. His literary reputation rests above all on a handful of extraordinarily durable lyrics: poems of rivers, birds, childhood, fairy lore…