The House of an Irish Poet
Biographical Material
Collection area: Literature
Collection dates: 1883-1886
Holographic manuscript of a chapter from Parnell and his Island. Written in ink, it contains Moore's edits. The autobiographical theme of this particular chapter concerns a poet who returns to Ireland, and is confronted not only with the physical deterioration of his family estate, but also the economic despair of his tenant farmers.
Irish novelist.
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