William Allingham

William Allingham (* March 19, 1824 or 1828 in Ballyshannon, County Donegal, Ireland, † November 18, 1889 in Hampstead, London) was an Irish writer and poet.

Allingham was the son of a bank clerk of English origin. He worked until 1870 for the customs administration and from this date to Fraser 's Magazine. 1874 to 1879, he held the editorial line of the magazine, in succession by James Anthony Froude.

Allingham's first book of poems appeared in 1850, the second, Day and Night Songs in 1855, with illustrations by Allingham's friend Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Lawrence Bloomfield in Ireland, a narrative poem that dealt with the social issues of Ireland, appeared in 1864.

1874 married Helen Paterson Allingham significantly younger.

Other works: Fifty Modern Poems (1865 ), Songs, Poems, and Ballads (1877 ), Evil May Day (1883 ), Blackberries (1884), Irish Songs and Poems (1887 ), and Varieties in Prose (1893 ).

Allingham's best-known poem is "The Faeries ". His likes to quote opening lines are: Up the airy mountain / Down the rushy glen / We daren't go a-hunting/For fear of little men ....

• Irishman
• Poetry
• Born in the 19th century
• Died in 1889
• Man