biography
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Mangan, James
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commonly called James Clarence
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| lived:
| (1803–49)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Dublin, Ireland. He worked as a lawyer's clerk, and later found employment in the library of Trinity College, Dublin. He published English versions of Irish poems in The Poets and Poetry of Munster (1849), notably ‘My Dark Rosaleen’, ‘The Nameless One’, and ‘The Woman of Three Cows’. Subject to melancholia, he became an opium addict, and died of cholera. |
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