Thomas Moore

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Thomas Moore, detail of an oil painting by Sir Martin Archer Shee, 1818; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

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Born	May 28, 1779 • Dublin • Ireland
Died	February 25, 1852 (aged 72) • Wiltshire • England
Notable Works	“Irish Melodies” • “Lalla Rookh”
Movement / Style	Gaelic revival

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Anglo-Irish novelist, songwriter, and painter

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Irish writer

Thomas Osborne Davis

Irish author

Thomas Campion

English poet and musician

Birger Sjöberg

Swedish poet

John Banim

Irish author

Jonathan Swift

Anglo-Irish author and clergyman

James Joyce

Irish author

William Butler Yeats

Irish author and poet

Oscar Wilde

Irish author

Oliver Goldsmith

Anglo-Irish author

Colm Tóibín

Irish author

Paul Muldoon

Northern Irish poet

Irish poet

Seamus Heaney

Irish poet

Thomas Kinsella

Irish poet

Eavan Boland

Irish poet and literary critic

Paul Durcan

Irish poet

Derek Mahon

Northern Irish poet and translator

Henry Brooke

Irish author

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