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Joseph Campbell

1879–1944

Joseph Campbell (1879–1944), who also wrote as Seosamh MacCathmhaoil, was an Irish poet and dramatist born in Belfast, known for The Mountainy Singer (1909) and for the words of 'My Lagan Love'.

Lyra Celtica (1924) prints two of his lyrics, under his Irish name.

Poems (4)

  1. I will go with my Father a-ploughing
  2. A Northern Love Song
  3. I Am the Mountainy Singer
  4. The Old Woman

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