Joseph Campbell 1879-1944
Born
in Belfast. He collaborated with the composer Herbert Hughes and they published
Songs of Uladh in 1904. Included in this collection was My Lagan Love. He went
to London where he wrote other books of poems including The Rushlight, The Gilly
of Christ and The
Mountainy Singer. After the Easter Rising, he was elected to
Wicklow County Council and became its Chairman. He took the anti-Treaty side
and was interned for 18 months. He went to America before returning to Wicklow
where he died. The Poems of Joseph Campbell was published in 1963. Austin Clarke
wrote “In the spring of 1944 his nearest neighbours in the glen noticed that
no turf smoke was coming from the chimney and became alarmed. The poet was found
dead where he had fallen across the hearth stone”. He is buried in Dublin.
See Rutherford Mayne
Further information and directions to the
grave are to be found in "The End - An Illustrated Guide to the
Graves of Irish Writers". Click here
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