IASIL Newsletter, 2004-2005 ... admired
internationally as a poet, biographer, translator, satirist,
musician, singer, orientalist and polemicist. His Irish
Melodies had a profound impact on the Irish, English and
American public, are still a vital part of the
English-speaking popular song tradition. Moore was a close
friend and confidant of Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, Robert
Emmet, John Murray, Lord John Russell, Sir Walter Scott and
other notable political and literary figures. His Irish
Melodies have been popular for nearly TTWWOO centuries, and
his long ‘Eastern’ poem Lalla Rookh (1817) was an
international bestseller and a major contribution to
European orientalism. Beethoven and Berlioz admired Moore’s
songs and wrote musical arrangements for them, while Moore’s
cultural nationalism inspired like-minded writers in many
countries, including France, Poland, Italy, Germany, Russia
and Hungary. Moore’s works were frequently reprinted in
Britain, France and the US throughout the nineteenth
century. The corpus of Moore’s manuscript material is large,
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