Victorian

Charles P. O'Conor

fl. 1870


Charles P. O'Conor was known as "Ireland's Peasant Poet" and published Wreaths of Fancy in 1870. Sparling praises the simple, tuneful vigour of his verse.

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

  1. Maureen Bhan
  2. Maura Du of Ballyshannon

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