Who is T. W. Rolleston

Thomas William Hazen Rolleston (1 May 1857 – 5 December 1920) was an Irish writer, literary figure and translator, known as a poet but publishing over a wide range of literary and political topics. He lived at various times in Killiney in County Dublin, Germany, London and County Wicklow; settling finally in 1908 in Hampstead, London, where he died. His Killiney home, called Secrora, subsequently became the home of tennis player Joshua Pim.Early yearsRolleston was born in Glasshouse, Shinrone, County Offaly, the son of a judge. He was educated at St Columba's College, Dublin and Trinity College, Dublin. CareerAfter a time in Germany he founded the Dublin University Review in 1885; he published Poems and Ballads of Young Ireland (1888), and a Life of Lessing (1889). As the first managing ...
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T. W. Rolleston Poems

• The Grave Of Rury
  Clear as air, the western waters
  evermore their sweet, unchanging song
  Murmur in their stony channels
  round O'Conor's sepulchre in Cong....
• In Praise Of May (ascribed To Fionn Mac Cumhaill.)
  May-day! delightful day!
  Bright colours play the value along.
  Now wakes at morning's slender ray
  Wild and gay the blackbird's song....
• Cois Na Teineadh
  Where glows the Irish hearth with peat
  There lives a subtle spell-
  The faint blue smoke, the gentle heat,
  The moorland odours tell....
• Clonmacnoise
  In a quiet water'd land, a land of roses,
  Stands Saint Kieran's city fair;
  And the warriors of Erin in their famous generations
  Slumber there....
• The Dead At Clonmacnois
  From the Irish of Angus O'Gillan
  
  
  In a quiet water'd land, a land of roses,...

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Comments about T. W. Rolleston

• Synapticaxon: ambassadors of the fir bolg and tuath dé meeting before the battle of moytura. an illustration by stephen reid in t. w. rolleston's myths & legends of the celtic race, 1911
• Edizblues: the tale of lohengrin, knight of the swan : after the drama of richard wagner : rolleston, t. w. (thomas william), 1857-1920
• Fir_bolg: 'finn heard far off the first notes of the fairy harp', from the high deeds of finn (1910) by t. w. rolleston, illustration by stephen reid
• Nathalienow: 3 of 5 stars to celtic myths and legends by t.w. rolleston
• Fir_bolg: 'they all trooped out, lords and ladies, to view the wee man' from the high deeds of finn (1910) by t. w. rolleston, illustration by stephen reid

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