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Victorian

Charles Graham Halpine

1829–1868

Charles Graham Halpine (1829–1868), born at Oldcastle, County Meath, was a journalist and poet who wrote anti-secession verse as "Miles O'Reilly" and rose to brigadier-general in the American Civil War. He died in New York.

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

Poems (9)

  1. O Lady of Kinsa
  2. The Hill of Killenarden
  3. Baron Renfrew's Ball
  4. Lecompton's Black Brigade
  5. The Song of Sherman's Army
  6. "Mr. Johnson's Policy of Reconstruction"
  7. Sambo’s Right to Be Kilt
  8. Janette's Hair
  9. Irish Astronomy

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