Excerpt from A Collection of Poems Written on Different Occasions by the Clare Bards: In Honor of the Macdonnells of Kilkee and Killone, in the County of ClareJohn Hore was a Blacksmith by trade, and lived at the gate of Clooneena, where he kept his forge he was a poet of great celebrity, and was patron ised by the Houses of Clooneena and Kilkee. I am informed that he died about the year 1780.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition.

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