George Francis Savage-Armstrong

George Francis Savage-Armstrong (1845–1906) was an Irish poet and scholar, Professor of History and English Literature at Queen's College, Cork, from 1871 to 1905. He published many volumes of verse, including Ballads of Down (1901).

"The Wreck off Mizen-Head" is a ballad of a rescue from a shipwreck off the Cork coast and was chosen by R. Brimley Johnson for his 1894 collection.