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James Clarence Mangan

1803–1849

James Clarence Mangan was born in Dublin and worked as a scrivener's clerk and library assistant. He contributed poems and translations, many of them English versions from the Irish, to The Nation and other periodicals.

He lived in poverty and ill health and died of cholera in 1849. His "Dark Rosaleen" is the most widely known of his poems.

Poems (50)

  1. Dark Rosaleen (From the Irish)
  2. Lament for the Princes of Tyrone and Tyrconnell (From the Irish)
  3. A Lamentation for the Death of Sir Maurice Fitzgerald, Knight of Kerry (From the Irish)
  4. The Woman of Three Cows (From the Irish)
  5. Prince Alfrid's Itinerary Through Ireland (From the Irish)
  6. O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire (From the Irish)
  7. The Nameless One
  8. Siberia
  9. The Dream of John Macdonnell
  10. Kathaleen Ny-Houlahan
  11. Kincora
  12. The Fair Hills of Eiré, O!
  13. The One Mystery
  14. The Karamanian Exile
  15. The Three Khahndeers
  16. Gone in the Wind
  17. To Amine
  18. Advice against Travel
  19. The World: a Ghazel
  20. St. Patrick's Hymn before Tara
  21. Where are they?
  22. Shane Bwee; or, The Captivity of the Gaels
  23. Sarsfield
  24. Lament over the Ruins of the Abbey of Teach Molaga
  25. The Dawning of the Day
  26. The Sorrows of Innisfail
  27. Rury and Darvorgilla
  28. The Expedition and Death of King Dathy
  29. Welcome to the Prince
  30. Lament for Banba
  31. Ellen Bawn
  32. Love Ballad
  33. The Vision of Conor O'Sullivan
  34. Patrick Condon's Vision
  35. Sighile Ni Gadhra
  36. The Time of the Barmecides
  37. The Mariner's Bride
  38. To the Ingleezee Khafir, calling himself Djaun Bool Djenkinzun
  39. Soul and Country
  40. A Vision of Connaught in the Thirteenth Century
  41. An Invitation
  42. The Warning Voice
  43. The Lovely Land
  44. The Saw Mill
  45. The Last Words of Red Hugh O'Donnell on His Departure from Ireland for Spain
  46. Irish National Hymn
  47. Broken-hearted Lays
  48. The Dying Enthusiast
  49. To Joseph Brenan
  50. Twenty Golden Years Ago

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