John Keegan Casey

John Keegan Casey (1846–1870), who wrote as "Leo", was a poet and Fenian born near Mullingar, County Westmeath, the son of a peasant. Imprisoned in 1867, he died at twenty-three, and his funeral drew a very large crowd.

The poems here are taken from H. Halliday Sparling's anthology Irish Minstrelsy (London: Walter Scott, 1888).