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_Minor Poems of Charlotte Elizabeth_ (1848). Published in the author’s lifetime over the signature ‘Charlotte Elizabeth.’

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Mangan’s poems appeared in Dublin magazines and journals--_The Dublin University Magazine_, _The Nation_, and _The Dublin Penny Journal_. There is no complete edition of his works.

As to the second, ‘Dark Rosaleen,’ is, of course, a mystical name for Ireland.

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_Songs, Poems, and Verses_ (John Murray, 1884). By permission of the Marquess of Dufferin and Ava. The second is dated 1845.

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_Dublin University Magazine_ (1834). As to the first, Fiagh MacHugh O’Byrne, one of the most powerful Irish chieftains in the sixteenth century, was killed in a skirmish with the forces of the Lord Deputy (1597). _Gall_ (l. 17)=‘foreigners.’

The second is the first two stanzas of a very close translation, in the original metre, of an Irish song of unknown authorship, dating from the seventeenth century. The refrain has never been satisfactorily translated.

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_The Poems of Thomas Davis, now first collected_ (Dublin: James Duffy, 1846). These poems made their first appearance in _The Nation_.

The second is a ‘Lament for the Death of Eoghan Ruadh O’Neill,’ commonly called Owen Roe O’Neill (1590?-1649), patriot and general, who led the Irish against the Scotch and Parliamentary forces in Ireland (1642-1649).

The Author’s Note is as follows:--‘_Time._--November 10, 1649. _Scene._--Ormond’s camp, county Waterford. _Speakers._--A veteran of Eoghan O’Neill’s clan, and one of the horsemen, just arrived with an account of his death.’

l. 2. _Poison._ There is no truth in the assertion that O’Neill
was poisoned. He died a natural death.

7. SACSANACH. Saxon, English.

8. _Cloc Uachtar._ Clough Oughter, in county Cavan, where the
O’Reillys had a stronghold.

19. _Beinn Burb._ Benburb, on the Blackwater, where O’Neill
defeated the Scotch army under Monro (June 5, 1646).