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ALFRED PERCEVAL GRAVES (1846— )

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 383 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALFRED See also:PERCEVAL See also:GRAVES (1846— )  , Irish writer, was See also:born in See also:Dublin, the son of the See also:bishop of See also:Limerick . He was educated at See also:Windermere See also:College, and took high honours at Dublin University . In 1869 he entered the See also:Civil Service as clerk in the See also:Home See also:Office, where he remained until he became in 1874 an inspector of See also:schools . He was a See also:constant contributor of See also:prose and See also:verse to the Spectator, The See also:Athenaeum, See also:John See also:Bull, and See also:Punch, and took a leading See also:part in the revival of Irish letters . He was for several years See also:president of the Irish See also:Literary Society, and is the author of the famous ballad of " See also:Father O'Flynn " and many other songs and See also:ballads . In collaboration with See also:Sir C . V . See also:Stanford he published Songs of Old See also:Ireland (1882), Irish Songs and Ballads (1893), the airs of which are taken from the See also:Petrie See also:MSS.; the airs of his Irish Folk-Songs (1897) were arranged by See also:Charles See also:Wood, with whom he also collaborated in Songs of See also:Erin (Igor) . - His See also:brother, Charles L . See also:Graves (b . 1856), educated at See also:Marl-See also:borough and at See also:Christ See also:Church, See also:Oxford, also became well known as a journalist, author of two volumes of parodies, The See also:Hawarden See also:Horace (1894) and More Hawarden Horace (1896), and of skits in prose and verse . An admirable musical critic, his See also:Life and Letters of Sir See also:George See also:Grove (1903) is a See also:model See also:biography .

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