Who is Moira O'neill

Moira O'Neill was the pseudonym of Agnes Shakespeare Higginson (1864–1955), a popular Irish-Canadian poet who wrote ballads and other verse inspired by County Antrim, where she lived at Cushendun. In 1895, she and her husband Walter Skrine lived on a 16,500 acre ranch in Alberta. But they returned to Ireland and were, in 1921, burned out of their mansion Ballyrankin House near Bunclody.She also used the name Nesta. She published Songs of the Glens of Antrim (1900) and More Songs of the Glens of Antrim (1921). From the first of these collections, composer Charles Villiers Stanford selected the six poems of his song-cycle 'An Irish Idyll' (publ. 1901), dedicated to baritone Harry Plunket Greene, which includes one of Stanford's best-known songs, 'The Fairy Lough'. Her poem Sea Wrack was a...
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  • Corrymeela
    Over here in England I'm helpin' wi' the hay,
    And I wisht I was in Ireland the livelong day;
    Weary on the English hay, an' sorra take the wheat!
    Och! Corrymeela, an' the blue sky over it....
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River 1 Save 1 Raise 1 Sweet 1 Blue 1 Wild 1 I Love You 1 Wind 1 Song 1 Sky 1


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Hem lay 'round and Haw looked on
While God did all the work.

Hem was a fogy, and Haw was a prig,
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