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In the foyer of the National Library of Ireland there are stained-glass portraits of some of the greats of European letters. A good many of the writers under discussion in this volume are depicted: Schiller is there, and Shakespeare, and Cervantes and Dante. And in the farthest left corner, there is the nod to native genius: Thomas Moore (1779–1852), known in the 1880s (when the library was built) as ‘Ireland’s national poet’, the ‘bard of Erin’.
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Kelly, R. (2014). Moore 1879. In: Leerssen, J., Rigney, A. (eds) Commemorating Writers in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137412140_5
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