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Samuel Lover was an Anglo-Irish songwriter novelist as well as a painter of portraits chiefly miniatures He was the grandfather of Victor Herbert Samuel was born at number 60 Grafton Street and went to school at Samuel Whytes at 79 Grafton Street now home to Bewleys cafe By 1830 he was secretary of the Royal Hibernian Academy and lived at number 9 DOlier Street Samuel eventually moved to London and made his main residence there Lover produced a number of Irish songs of which several including The Angels Whisper Molly Bawn and The Four-leaved Shamrock attained great popularity He also wrote some novels of which Rory OMore in its first form a ballad and Handy Andy are the best known and short Irish sketches which with his songs he combined into a popular entertainment called Irish Nights He joined with Dickens in founding Bentleys Magazine When once the itch of literature comes over a man nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen - Samuel Lover Lovers grandson was Victor Herbert who is best known for his many successful operettas that premiered on Broadway A memorial in St Patricks Cathedral Dublin summarises his achievements Poet painter novelist and composer who in the exercise of a genius as distinguished in its versatility as in its power by his pen and pencil illustrated so happily the characteristics of the peasantry of his country that his name will ever be honourably identified with Ireland This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain Cousin John William 1910 A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature London J M Dent Sons New York E P Dutton Source Wikipedia

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The Fairy Boy
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The Birth Of Saint Patrick
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Lanty Leary
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Rory O'More; Or, Good Omens
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How To Ask And Have
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