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Colm Tóibín has called Thomas Moore ‘the most influential figure in shaping the Irish psyche’. Through his Irish Melodies, Moore created an iconography of silenced harps, misty landscapes and round towers that lives on today, more than a century and a half after his death. In Bard of Erin, Ronan Kelly tells the story of Moore’s extraordinary life. From humble beginnings in Dublin to glittering social and literary success in London (at one point his popularity was eclipsed only by that of Sir Walter Scott and his close friend Lord Byron), Moore lived in the glow of fame and under the burden of national expectation. Ronan Kelly’s biography is a gripping and definitive account of a great romantic figure.
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'Thanks to Ronan Kelly's enthralling new biography, [Moore] is about to become an important part of our cultural landscape again ... There hasn't been a better biography published in Ireland for many a year'
-- Irish Independent
`Vividly absorbing ... an enthusiastic, persuasive and highly readable attempt to restore a full picture of the man ... Everything in this eloquent and intelligent life shows that Moore's achievement decisively transcended the "poetical"' -- Roy Foster, The Times
'This new biography of Thomas Moore delights in the reading. Ronan Kelly has done his groundwork well ... A substantial, highly readable examination of the life, social development and cultural significance of a figure who occupies a pivotal position in Irish history, both as an Irish writer of the Romantic period and as 'Ireland's National Poet' of a pre-partition era'
-- Sunday Business Post
'a major reassessment ... scholarly and comprehensive ... Kelly makes it clear what fun Moore was' -- Irish Daily Mail
`Definitive ... a fascinating story' -- John Montague, Irish Times
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-- Irish Independent
`Vividly absorbing ... an enthusiastic, persuasive and highly readable attempt to restore a full picture of the man ... Everything in this eloquent and intelligent life shows that Moore's achievement decisively transcended the "poetical"' -- Roy Foster, The Times
'This new biography of Thomas Moore delights in the reading. Ronan Kelly has done his groundwork well ... A substantial, highly readable examination of the life, social development and cultural significance of a figure who occupies a pivotal position in Irish history, both as an Irish writer of the Romantic period and as 'Ireland's National Poet' of a pre-partition era'
-- Sunday Business Post
'a major reassessment ... scholarly and comprehensive ... Kelly makes it clear what fun Moore was' -- Irish Daily Mail
`Definitive ... a fascinating story' -- John Montague, Irish Times
Ronan Kelly was born in Dublin in 1974. Bard of Erin is his first book.
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- PublisherPenguin Ireland
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 1844881431
- ISBN 13 9781844881437
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages640
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