Author: DAVIS, THOMAS.
Title: Songs ballads & Poems by Famous Irishmen: Thomas Davis [cover title].
Description: Cr. 8vo; pp. 64 (including wrappers); full page portrait, decorative initials, original printed stapled paper wrappers, good copy. Dublin; Walton's Musical Instruments Galleries; n.d. Includes a brief biographical sketch of Thomas Osborne Davis (1814 - 1845), the Irish writer and leading light of the Young Ireland political and cultural movement of the mid-nineteenth century. Davis established The Nation newspaper with Charles Gavan Duffy and John Blake Dillon, and wrote popular nationalistic ballads such as A Nation Once Again, which inspired later generations of Irish nationalists.

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