June 1849: Dr William Wilde, passing a wretched hovel in Dublin’s Liberties, discovers James Clarence Mangan in a state of indescribable misery and squalor. Aged just 46, the man dubbed ‘Ireland’s National Poet’ is about to succumb to the cholera epidemic that is gripping famine ravaged Ireland.
August 2008: Writer Bridget Hourican encounters Mangan during a Liberties lock-in with that other great Irish poet, Shane MacGowan, who found inspiration in Mangan’s poetry.
Product details
Publisher : Gill Books (15 Aug. 2024)
Language : English
Hardcover : 408 pages
ISBN-10 : 0717194833
ISBN-13 : 978-0717194834
Dimensions : 14.5 x 3 x 22.2 cm
Best Sellers Rank: 245,141 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
66 in British Historical Biographies 1701-1900
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689 in Criticism on Poetry & Poets
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