Poetry Codex

Romantic

Jeremiah Joseph Callanan

1795–1829

Jeremiah Joseph Callanan was born in Cork and studied at Maynooth and Trinity College Dublin. He worked as a tutor, made English versions of Irish songs, and died in Lisbon in 1829.

Yeats credited his translations from the Irish with first giving English-speaking Ireland an honest style. Yeats's anthology misprints his death year as 1839.

Poems (9)

  1. The Convict of Clonmell (From the Irish)
  2. The Outlaw of Loch Lene (From the Irish)
  3. Dirge of O'Sullivan Bear (From the Irish)
  4. The Girl I Love
  5. Cusheen Loo
  6. The Lamentation of Felix M'Carthy
  7. O Say, My Brown Drimin
  8. Gougaune Barra
  9. The Virgin Mary's Bank

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