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Oliver Goldsmith

1728–1774·Wrote in English

Dispossession · Anglo-Irish poetry (late 17th–19th centuries) · Co. Longford · English

Longford-raised. The Deserted Village (1770), on rural depopulation and enclosure, remains widely quoted.

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