Thomas Moore

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Thomas Moore (28 May 1779 – February 25, 1882), an Irish poet, singer, guitarist, and entertainer, who is best known for the lyrics of "The Minstrel Boy" and "The Last Rose of Summer."

After Lord Byron's death, Moore and John Murray were jointly responsible for torching Lord Byron's memoirs after his death.

Anson Moore was often described as An Anson Moore from an early age.

He appeared in musical performances with his friends, including The Poor Soldier by John O'Keeffe (music by William Shield), and at one time had aspirations to become an actor.

Moore attended many Dublin schools, including Samuel Whyte's English Grammar School in Grafton Street, where he learned the English accent with which he talked for the remainder of his life.

In 1795, he graduated from Trinity College, which had recently permitted admission to Catholic students, in an attempt to fulfill his mother's dream of becoming a lawyer.

Moore was a good student at first, but he later put less effort into his studies.

Moore's time at Trinity came amid continuing turmoil following the French Revolution, and a few of his classmates, including Robert Emmet, were supporters of the United Irishmen campaign, though Moore himself was never a member.

This movement was requesting the French government's support for the initation of a revolution in Ireland.

A rebellion broke out in 1798 and a French invasion followed, neither of which resulted. Edward Hudson, a fellow student at Trinity College who was instrumental in introducing Moore to Edward Bunting's A General Collection of the Ancient Irish Music (1797), later one of the main sources of his own collection of Irish Melodies.

Early life and artistic launch

Thomas Moore was born in Wexford and John Moore from Kerry over his parents' grocery store in Aungier Street, Dublin. He had two younger siblings, Kate and Ellen. Moore expressed an early interest in music and performance, staging musical performances with his colleagues, and even entertained the possibility of becoming an actor. He attended Samuel Whyte's co-educational English grammar school in Dublin, where he was taught in Latin and Greek and became fluent in French and Italian. He had one of his poems published in the Anthologia Hibernica ("Irish Anthology") by age fourteen.

Samuel Whyte had tutored Richard Brinsley Sheridan, an Irish playwright and English Whig politician of whom Moore later would write a biography.

Moore, who was one of the first Catholics admitted to Trinity College in Dublin in 1795, was preparing for a career in law, as his mother had aspired. Moore was linked to the French Revolution's popular politics as a result of the threat of a French invasion through his associates at Trinity, Robert Emmett, and Edward Hudson. Moore wrote an appeal to his classmates in 1797 to prevent the idea from being presented by the English-appointed Dublin Castle administration, thereby ensuring Ireland's union with the United Kingdom. Moore was arrested at Trinity in April 1798, but he was cleared on suspicion of being a member of the Society of United Irishmen, triggering sedition.

Moore did not take the United Irish oath with Emmett and Hudson, and he had no involvement in the 1798 republican revolution (Moore was at home, sick in bed), or involved in the conspiracy for which Emmett was executed in 1803. Later, in a biography of United Ireland Chief Lord Edward Fitzgerald (1831), he expressed sympathy, not hiding his regret that the French expedition under General Hoche's leadership failed in December 1796 to result in a landing. In the song "O, Breathe Not His Name" (1808), Moore honors Emmett's sacrifice on the gallows. In the long oriental poem "Lalla Rookh" (1817), more veiled references to Emmet are discovered.

Moore continued his law studies at Middle Temple in London in 1799. The impecunious student was assisted by friends in London's expatriate Irish community, including Barbara, widow of Arthur Chichester, 1st Marquess of Donegall, the landlord and borough owner of Belfast.

In 1800, Moore's Anacreon translations, honoring wine, women, and song, were first published in honour of Prince of Wales. Prince Regent and King George IV's introduction was a major point in Moore's ingratiation in London's aristocratic and literary circles, a great deal due in large part to his success as a singer and songwriter. In the same year, he appeared in The Gypsy Prince, a comedic opera performed by Michael Kelly.

Moore hazarded a collection of his own words in 1801. Late Thomas Little Esq.'s Poetical Works The pseudonym may have been influenced by their youth eroticism. Moore's celebration of kisses and embraces fell short of modern norms of propriety. They were to put an end to what was a relative publishing success when they tightened in the Victorian period.

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