Thomas Moore
Irish poet, singer and songwriter (1779-1852) · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Died at 72
Thomas Moore was an Irish writer, poet, and lyricist, widely regarded in his lifetime as Ireland's "national bard". The acclaim rested primarily on the popularity of his Irish Melodies. In these, Moore set to old Irish tunes verses that spoke to a narrative of Irish dispossession, loss, and resistance.
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Moore as a young man
Bloody Castlereagh, 1798
The Installation of Captain Rock by Daniel Maclise, 1834
"Terrors of Emancipation" - The Roman Catholic Relief Act, 1829
Moore's Melodies, Centenary Edition, 1880![Byron: "When you read my Memoirs you will learn the evils of true dissipation."[75]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Lord_Byron_by_Henry_Pierce_Bone.jpg/330px-Lord_Byron_by_Henry_Pierce_Bone.jpg)
Byron: "When you read my Memoirs you will learn the evils of true dissipation."[75]
Window at Ottawa Public Library features Moore with Dickens, Archibald Lampman, Walter Scott, Byron, Tennyson, and ShakespeareAwards
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With his romantic work Lalla Rookh (1817), in which these same themes are explored in an elaborate orientalist allegory, Moore achieved wider critical recognition. Translated into several languages, and adapted and arranged for musical performance by, among others, Robert Schumann, the chivalric verse-narrative established Moore as one of the leading exemplars of European romanticism.
