John Edward Pigot

John Edward Pigot (1822–1871), who wrote for The Nation as "Fermoy", was born at Kilworth, County Cork, the son of a Chief Baron of the Exchequer. He was called to the bar in 1845 and practised for some years in Bombay.

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