Poetry Codex

Victorian

Thomas Davis

1814–1845

Thomas Davis was born in Mallow, County Cork, and in 1842 helped to found the newspaper The Nation, the voice of the Young Ireland movement. He wrote the ballads collected in The Spirit of the Nation.

He died of scarlet fever in 1845, aged thirty.

Poems (16)

  1. Lament for the Death of Eoghan Ruadh O'Neill
  2. Maire Bhan Astor
  3. O! The Marriage
  4. A Plea for Love
  5. Fontenoy
  6. The Geraldines
  7. Our Own Again
  8. My Land
  9. Native Swords
  10. The Flower of Finae
  11. Lament for the Milesians
  12. The Sack of Baltimore
  13. The Welcome
  14. Love's Longings
  15. Annie, Dear
  16. The Boatman of Kinsale

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