Thomas Moore

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Irish Poet Thomas Moore was born on 28th May, 1779 in Dublin, Ireland and passed away on 25th Feb 1852 Bromham, Wiltshire, England aged 72. He is most remembered for The lyrics of "The Minstrel Boy" and "The Last Rose of Summer".. His zodiac sign is Gemini.

Thomas Moore is a member of the following lists: People from County Dublin, People from Dublin (city) and Irish novelists.

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First Name	Thomas
Last Name	Moore
Full Name at Birth	Thomas Moore
Alternative Name	Anacreon Moore
Birthday	28th May, 1779
Birthplace	Dublin, Ireland
Died	25th February, 1852
Place of Death	Bromham, Wiltshire, England
Build	Average
Eye Color	Brown - Dark
Hair Color	Black
Zodiac Sign	Gemini
Religion	Roman Catholic
Ethnicity	White
Nationality	Irish
University	Trinity College, Dublin
Occupation Text	Poet, singer, songwriter, entertainer
Occupation	Poet
Claim to Fame	The lyrics of "The Minstrel Boy" and "The Last Rose of Summer".

Thomas Moore (28 May 1779 – 25 February 1852) was an Irish writer, poet and lyricist celebrated for his Irish Melodies. Their setting of English-Language verse to old Irish tunes marked the transition in popular Irish culture from Irish to English. Politically, Moore was recognised in England as a press, or "squib", writer for the aristocratic Whigs; in Ireland he was accounted a Catholic patriot. Married to a Protestant actress and hailed as "Anacreon Moore" after the classical Greek composer of drinking songs and erotic verse, Moore made no profession of piety. But in the controversies that surrounded Catholic Emancipation he was seen to defend the tradition of the Church in Ireland against both evangelising Protestants and uncompromising lay Catholics. Longer prose works reveal more radical sympathies: a Life and Death of Lord Edward Fitzgerald, the United Irish leader depicted as a martyr in the cause of democratic reform; and, complementing Maria Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent, Memoirs of Captain Rock, a saga, not of Anglo-Irish landowners, but of their exhausted tenants driven to the semi-insurrection of "Whiteboyism". Today, however, Moore is remembered almost alone either for his Irish Melodies (typically "The Minstrel Boy" and "The Last Rose of Summer") or, less generously, for the role he is thought to have played in the loss of the memoirs of his friend Lord Byron.

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