Thomas Osborne Davis

The book is headed with romantic lines from Thomas Davies [sic] about successive migrants and visitors to Ireland, from the brown Phoenician to the iron Lords of Normandy. The next epigraph comes from Burns

Yeats felt that no one could do it [the volume] so well as you, but made his own recommendations: George Sigerson , Thomas Davis , Sir Samuel Ferguson , and William Allingham , among others.

JFLW gave two different accounts of what had made her a poet. In one, it was reading The Nation's Valentine, To the Ladies of Ireland, in which Richard D'Alton Williams urged Irishwomen to sing...

Contributors included leading political writers such as John O'Hagan , Richard D'Alton Williams , Thomas MacNeven , William Carleton , Clarence Mangan , Denis MacCarthy , Thomas Davis , John Blake Dillon , and women...