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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ARTHUR GERALD GEOGHEGAN. (1810?1889.) Arthur Gerald Geoghegan was born in Dublin in 1810. He entered the Civil Service as an Exciseman in 1830, became a Collector of Ireland Revenue in 1857, and retired in 1877. He is the author of 'The Monks of Kilcrea, ' which for years remained anonymous. It is a long narrative poem which was much spoken of. It first appeared in 1853; a second edition with other poems was issued in 1861, while it was translated into French in 1858. He contributed verse to the Dublin Penny Journal, to The Dublin University Magazine, and to The Nation. Not many years before he died he contributed to The Irish Monthly the exquisite ' After Aughrim.' If the fine, stately, picturesque ' Monks of Kilcrea' or the many ringing, if often rhetorical, ballads of his published in Hayes' ' Ballad Poetry, ' or even ' The Mountain Fern, ' had never been written, Arthur Geoghegan would yet merit a place in any Irish anthology for the sake of this little poem, so poignant in feeling, so fresh and fragrant in expression. He died in London in November, 1889. He was an ardent Irish antiquarian and his collection of Irish antiquities was exhibited in London, where he had settled in 1869. AFTER AUGHRIM. Do you remember, long ago, Kathaleen? When your-lover whispered low, Shall I stay or shall I go, Kathaleen? And you answered proudly, Go And join King James and strike a blow For the Green Mavrone, your hair is white as snow, Kathaleen; Your heart is sad and full of woe. Do you repent you made him go, Kathaleen? And quick you answer proudly, No For better die with Sarsfield so Than live a slave without a blow For the Green THE MOUNTAIN FEEN. Oh, the fern, the fern, the Irish hill fern, That girds our blue lake...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217226295 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217226299 |
| Weight | 1.16 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.80 In |
| List Price | $23.93 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 358 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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