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Helen Selina Blackwood, Lady Dufferin

1807–1867·Wrote in English

The long nineteenth century · Anglo-Irish poetry (late 17th–19th centuries) · English

Granddaughter of Richard Brinsley Sheridan; Lament of the Irish Emigrant was widely sung throughout the nineteenth century.

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