William Larminie
Who is William Larminie
William Larminie (1 August 1849 – 19 January 1900) was an Irish poet and folklorist.
He was born in Castlebar, County Mayo, of Huguenot descent and was educated at Kingstown School and Trinity College Dublin, from which he graduated in 1871 with a moderatorship in Classics. He moved to London while he was employed in the British India Office from 1873 until 1887, at which point he retired and returned to Ireland to devote himself to writing, settling in Bray, County Wicklow.
He published two volumes of poetry—Glanlua and Other Poems (1889), and Fand and Other Poems (1892)—as well as a collection of stories which he had collected from local people in County Donegal, County Mayo and County Galway: West Irish Folk-Tales and Romances (1893).
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