Who is James Clarence Mangan

James Clarence Mangan, born James Mangan (Irish: Séamus Ó Mangáin; 1 May 1803, Dublin – 20 June 1849), was an Irish poet.

He freely translated works from German, Turkish, Persian, Arabic, and Irish, with his translations of Goethe gaining special interest.

After the Great Famine in Ireland, he began writing patriotic poems, such as A Vision of Connaught in the Thirteenth Century.

Mangan was troubled, eccentric, and an alcoholic.

He died early from cholera.

After his death, Mangan was hailed as Ireland's first national poet and admired by writers such as James Joyce and William Butler Yeats.

Early life

Mangan was born at Fishamble Street, Dublin, the son of James Mangan, a former hedge school teacher and native of...
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James Clarence Mangan Poems

• O'hussey's Ode To The Maguire
  Where is my chief, my master, this bleak night, mavrone?
  O cold, cold, miserably cold is this bleak night for Hugh!
  Its showery, arrowy, speary sleet pierceth one thro' and thro',
  Pierceth one to the very bone....
• Lament For Banba
  O my land! O my love!
  What a woe, and how deep,
  Is thy death to my long mourning soul!
  God alone, God above,...
• King Cahal Mór Of The Wine-red Hand
  I walked entranced
  Through a land of Morn:
  The sun, with wondrous excess of light,
  Shone down and glanced...
• Kincora
  Ah, where, Kincora! is Brian the Great?
  And where is the beauty that once was thine?
  Oh, where are the princes and nobles that sate
  At the feasts in thy halls, and drank the red wine,...
• Kathleen-ni-houlahan
  Long they pine in weary woe, the nobles of our land,
  Long they wander to and fro, proscribed, alas! and banned;
  Feastless, houseless, altarless, they bear the exile's brand,
  But their hope is in the coming-to of Kathleen-Ni-Houla-han!...

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Comments about James Clarence Mangan

• Dubdecodedtours: hoey’s court was of course, the birthplace of jonathan swift. (and james clarence mangan went to school at derby court) the werburgh st theatre was founded c.1635 by thos wentworth, earl stafford, as lord deputy of ireland in the reign of his master charles i.
• Philfluther: can't pay?we'll take it away.violence special vol 3
• Cilleinmcevoy: james clarence mangan's a voice of encouragement - a new year's lay from 1848
• Gerardlee10: 'i saw her once, one little while, and then no more: 'twas eden's light on earth awhile, and then no more. amid the throng she passed along the meadow-floor: spring seemed to smile on earth awhile, and then no more...' james clarence mangan, by oliver sheppard.
• Ogmios: james clarence mangan's poem "siberia". i don't know if he ever went there, but he captures the eternal winter nonetheless.

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