Francis A. Fahy

Francis A. Fahy (1854–1935), who wrote under the name "Dreoilin", was counted by Sparling among the best known and most genuinely lyrical of the younger Irish poets of his day. He published a volume of verse and contributed to the national newspapers.

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