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Three Irish Poets – Ellen O'Leary
...resource for nationalist writers. ‘A Legend of Tyrone’ (1887) O’Leary’s ‘A Legend of Tyrone’ was first published in 1887 in the Catholic literary journal The Irish Monthly and then often anthologised, for example in W.B. Yeats’s influential 1888 collection Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry. The Story Below you'll find the poem ‘A Legend of...