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Robert Dwyer Joyce

1830–1883


Robert Dwyer Joyce (1830–1883), born in County Limerick, was a physician, journalist and poet. He emigrated to Boston in 1866, achieved distinction there, and returned to Dublin shortly before his death.

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

  1. The Blacksmith of Limerick
  2. The Boys of Wexford
  3. Fineen the Rover
  4. The Drinan Donn
  5. Kilbrannon
  6. The Green Dove and the Raven
  7. Crossing the Blackwater

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