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CHARLES WOLFE (1791-1823)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 773 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHARLES See also:WOLFE (1791-1823)  , Irish poet, son of See also:Theobald See also:Wolfe of Blackhall, Co . See also:Kildare, was See also:born on the 14th of See also:December 1791 . He was educated at See also:English See also:schools and at Trinity See also:College, See also:Dublin, where he matriculated in 1809 and graduated in 1814 . He was ordained See also:priest in 1817, and obtained the curacy of Ballyclog, Co . See also:Tyrone, which he shortly exchanged for that of Donoughmore in the same See also:county . He died at See also:Cork on the 21st of See also:February 1823 in his See also:thirty-second See also:year . Wolfe was well known as a poet in Trinity College circles . He is remembered, however, solely by his stirring stanzas on the " See also:Burial of See also:Sir See also:John See also:Moore," written in 1816 in the rooms of See also:Samuel O'See also:Sullivan, a college friend, and printed in the See also:Newry See also:Telegraph . See John See also:Russell, Remains of the Rev . See also:Charles Wolfe (2 vols., 1825; 4th ed., 1829), and a See also:correspondence in Notes and Queries, 8th See also:series, vol. viii. pp . 145, 178, 235, 253, 331 and 418 .

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