Richard Dalton Williams

Richard Dalton Williams (1822–1862), who wrote as "Shamrock", was a physician and journalist born in County Tipperary. He wrote for The Nation, was tried and acquitted in 1848, emigrated in 1851, and died in Louisiana.

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