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Michael Scanlan (10 November 1833 – 6 March 1917) was an Irish nationalist, editor, poet and writer. Known as the "Fenian poet" or the "poet laureate of American Fenianism", [1] he was the author of a number of Irish ballads such as the "Bold Fenian Men" and "The Jackets Green".
Joseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke (31 July 1846 – 27 February 1925) [1] was an Irish American newspaperman, poet, playwright, writer, and Irish nationalist. Clarke was born in Kingstown, now called Dún Laoghaire, the port of County Dublin. The family moved to London when he was twelve years old. He worked as a clerk in the Board of Trade.
While living in America for a time, he published poetry in the "Irish World of New York". [3] McDonald's sole book, a collection of poetry titled "Irish National Poems", was published in 1886. He wrote most of his poetry in his spare time, mainly at night or Sunday evenings, [4] explaining his motivation thus-
Irish bards formed a professional hereditary caste of highly trained, learned poets. The bards were steeped in the history and traditions of clan and country, as well as in the technical requirements of a verse technique that was syllabic and used assonance, half rhyme and alliteration known as Dán Díreach.
On "Tuireamh na hÉireann," Vincent Morley wrote that it was "arguably one of the most important works ever written in Ireland. Composed in simple metre, easily understandable and capable of being learned by heart, this poem supplied an understanding of Irish history for the Catholic majority (monoglot speakers of Irish who could neither read nor write for the next two hundred years)."
Irish-American History of the United States (Dublin, 1902) History of the Queen's County (completed by Rev. E. O'Leary) (Dublin, 1907) Editor, Henry Joseph Monck Mason Essay on the Antiquity and Constitution of Parhaments of Ireland (1891) Editor, William Molyneux The Case of Ireland's Being Bound by Acts of Parliament in England Stated (1893)
Thomas Moore (28 May 1779 – 25 February 1852), was an Irish writer, poet, and lyricist celebrated for his Irish Melodies.His setting of English-language verse to old Irish tunes marked the transition in popular Irish culture from Irish to English.
James Orr (1770 – 24 April 1816), known as the Bard of Ballycarry, was a poet or rhyming weaver from Ballycarry, Co. Antrim in the province of Ulster in Ireland, who wrote in English and Ulster Scots. His most famous poem was The Irishman. He was the foremost of the Ulster Weaver Poets, and was writing contemporaneously with Robert Burns.