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William Allingham was born in 1824 in Ballyshannon, a little Donegal town, where his ancestors had lived for generations. Here he grew up, filling his mind with all the quaint legends and fancies that linger still in such odd corners of the world, and with that devotion for the place where he was born, felt by few people so intensely as by the Irish. When he was old enough, a small post in the Customs was found for him, and there seemed every likelihood of his spending an obscure life in
a little town Where little folk go up and down.1
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Patricus Walker (William Allingham), Rambles (London: Longmans, Green, 1873).
Ashby Manor: A Play in Two Acts (London: Stott, [1883]); Evil May Day (London: Stott, [1882]). Mrs Allingham contributed illustrations to Allingham’s Rhymes for the Young Folk (London: Cassell, 1887)
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O’Donnell, W.H. (1988). ‘William Allingham 1824–1889’ (1891), in The Poets and the Poetry of the Century, ed. Alfred H. Miles (1892). In: O’Donnell, W.H. (eds) Prefaces and Introductions. The Collected Edition of the Works of W. B. Yeats. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06236-2_5
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