Thomas Moore (1779-1852)


Works
Chronological listing
  • Odes of Anacreon, translated into English Verse with Notes, by Thomas Moore (London: John Stockdale 1800), viii, 255pp., 4o.
  • Poetical Works of Thomas Little [pseud. of Moore], Esq. (London: J. & T. Carpenter 1801), xix, 175pp.
  • Epistles, Odes, and Other Poems (London: Carpenter 1806), xi, 341pp. [reflecting American journey and ded. to Lord Moira]
  • Corruption and Intolerance (London: J. Carpenter 1808) [two poems], x, 55pp.
  • The Sceptic, a Philosophical Satire (Carpenter 1809), 26pp.
  •  A Selection of Irish Melodies, Vols. 1 & 2 (Dublin: William Power 1807), and Do. (London: James Power 1908) [being the first 2 numbers of a 10 part ser. (London: J. Power 1808-34) [for remainder of this series, see infra].
  • M.P., or the Blue-Stocking (London: J. Power 1811).
  • Intercepted Letters, or the Two-Penny Post-Bag, by Thomas Brown the Younger (London: J. Carr 1813).
  • Sacred Songs, No. 1 (London: J. Power, Dublin: W. Power 1816), & Do., No. 2 (1824) [i.e., Vols 1 & 2].
  • Melodies, Songs and Sacred Songs (NY: Goodrich & Co. 1818), 225pp.
  • Lalla Rookh: An Oriental Romance (London: Longman, Hurst, Orme & Browne 1817), 405pp.; Do. [new edn.], With sixty-nine illustrations from original drawings by John Tenniel, and five ornamenental pages of Persian design by T.Sulman, Jun. engraved on wood by H. N. Woods (London: Longman 1861)
  • The Fudge Family in Paris, by Thomas Browne the Younger (London: Longmans 1818), [with 2nd edn. 1818, vii, 168pp].
  • National Airs, Vol. 1 (London J. Power 1818) [see full series, infra].
  • Melodies, Songs, Sacred Songs, and National Airs: containing several never before published in America / by Thomas Moore, Esq.(NY: A. T. Goodrich &co. 1821), xvi, [17]-277pp., 15cm. [Title on added engraved t.p. given as Irish melodies, national airs, songs and sacred songs].
  • Fables for the Holy Alliance [Rhymes on the Road, &c.], by Thomas Browne the Younger (London: Longmans 1823), xiv, 198pp.
  • The Loves of the Angels (London: Longmans 1823), xiv, 198pp.
  • Memoirs of Captain Rock, the Celebrated Irish Chiefain, with some Account of his Ancestors, Written by Himself (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green 1824), 376pp. [see details]; and Do. [rep. edn.], ed. & intro., Emer Nolan, with annotations by Seamus Deane [p.209ff.] (Cork: Field Day Co. 2008), 332pp.
  • Memoirs of the Life of the Right Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan (London: Longmans 1825), xii, 719pp.
  • Evenings in Greece (London: J. Power 1826).
  • The Epicurean: A Tale (London: Longmans 1827); Do. [another edn.]. The Epicurean: A Tale, with Vignette Illustrations by J. M. W. Turner, Esq., R.A., and Alcriphron, a Poem, by Thomas Moore, Esq., author of Lalla Rookh, &c., &c. (London: John Macrone; sold by Simpkins & Marshall [... &c., Cheapside] 1839), 238pp. [Notes from p.213ff.] + 67pp. [ded. to Lord John Russell ‘by one who admires his character and talents, and is proud of his friendship’] - available at Google Books online.
  • Legendary Ballads (London: J. Power 1828).
  • Odes upon Cash, Corn, Catholics, and Other Matters (London: Longmans 1828), 183pp.
  • Letters and Journals of Lord Byron, with Notices of His Life, 2 vols. (London: John Murray 1830), viii, 670pp., 823pp.
  • Evenings in Greece, the Second Evening (London: J. Power 1831) [RAF 1832].
  • The Life and Death of Lord Edward Fitzgerald, 2 vols. (London: Longmans, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green 1831), 8o, xi, 307pp., 305pp
  • The Summer Fête (London: J. Power 1831).
  • Travels of an Irish Gentleman in Search of Religion, 2 vols. (London: Longmans 1833), xii, 335pp., xii, 354pp.; Do., James Barry [Barrister at Law], with notes and illustrations by the editor of “Captain Rock’s Memoirs”, 2 vols. (London: 1833), 8o. [pseud. of Thomas Moore]; Do., [another edn.] (Paris 1833).
  • The History of Ireland, from the Earliest King of that Realm, down to Its Last Chief, Vol. 1-4 [Dr. Lardner’s Cabinet Cyclopædia] (London: Longman, Rees, Brown, Green & Longman of Paternoster Row, & John Taylor 1835-46) [see details].
  • The Fudge Family in England (Longmans 1835).
  • Alciphron: A Poem (London: John Macrone 1839) [unfinished poetical version of The Epicurean].
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Journal contributions
  • “To a Plumassier”, in Morning Chronicle (16 March 1812)
  • “Extracts from the Diary of a Fashionable Politician”, in Morning Chronicle (30 March 1812)
  • “The Insurrection of the Papers”, in Morning Chronicle (23 April 1812)
  • “The Sale of the Tools”, in Morning Chronicle (21 December 1812)
  • “Correspondence Between a Lady and a Gentleman”, in Morning Chronicle (6 January 1813)
  • “Reinforcements for Lord Wellington”, in Morning Chronicle (27 August 1813)
  • “Lines on the Death of Sheridan”, in Morning Chronicle (June 1816)
  • “To the Ship in which Lord C[A]ST[LE]R[EA]GH Sailed for the Continent”, in Morning Chronicle (22 September 1818)
  • “Go, Brothers in Wisdom”, in Morning Chronicle (18 August 1818)
  • “To Sir Hudson Lowe”, in Examiner (4 October 1818)
  • “A Dream of Turtle”, in The Times (28 September 1826)
  • [On Kilkenny Theatricals], in Edinburgh Review (October 1827).
  • “Irish Antiquities”, in The Times (5 March 1832)
  • “From the Hon. Henry -, to Lady Emma -”, in The Times (9 April 1832)
  • “To Caroline, Viscountess Valletort”, in The Metropolitan Magazine (June 1832)
  • “Ali’s Bride ...”, in The Metropolitan Magazine (August 1832)
  • “Verses to the Poet Crabbe’s Inkstand”, in The Metropolitan Magazine (August 1832)
  • “Tory Pledges”, in The Times (30 August 1832)
  • “Song to the Departing Spirit of Tithe”, in The Metropolitan Magazine (September 1832)
  • “The Duke is the Lad”, in The Times (2 October 1832)
  • “St. Jerome on Earth, First Visit”, in The Times (29 October 1832)
  • “St. Jerome on Earth, Second Visit”, in The Times (12 November 1832)
  • “To the Rev. Charles Overton”, in The Times (6 November 1833)
  • “The Numbering of the Clergy”, in Examiner (5 October 1834)
  • “The Song of the Box”, in Morning Chronicle (19 February 1838)
  • “Sketch of the First Act of a New Romantic Drama”, in Morning Chronicle (22 March 1838)
  • “Thoughts on Mischief”, in Morning Chronicle (2 May 1840)
  • “Religion and Trade”, in Morning Chronicle (1 June 1840)
  • “An Account of an Extraordinary Dream”, in Morning Chronicle (15 June 1840)
  • “The Retreat of the Scorpion”, in Morning Chronicle (16 July 1840)
  • “Musings, suggested by the Late Promotion of Mrs. Nethercoat”, in Morning Chronicle (27 August 1840)
  • “A Threnody on the Approaching Demise of Old Mother Corn-Law”, in Morning Chronicle (23 February 1842)
  • “Sayings and Doings of Ancient Nicholas”, in Morning Chronicle (7 April 1842)
  • “More Sayings and Doings of Ancient Nicholas”, in Morning Chronicle (12 May 1842).
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Collected Works
  • Poetical Works of Thomas Little, Esq. (London: J. & T. Carpenter 1801), xix, 175pp. [var. this edn. in 3 vols].; Do. [4th edn.] (London: Carpenter 1804); Do. [Fifth Edn.] (London: Carpenter 1805); Do. [6th edn.] London: Carpenter 1806); (Do. [11th edn.] (London: Carpenter 1812, 1814, 1817, 1819); Do. [15th Edn.] (London: Carpenter 1822); Do. [16th edn.] (London: Carpenter 1833); also (Dublin [q.pub.]; 1804), 12° [BL]; and Do. [US rep.] (Philadelphia 1804).
  • Works of Thomas Moore, 7 vols. (Paris: Galignani & Cie. 1819).
  • Poetical Works, including his melodies, ballads, with a biographical and critical sketch of by J. W. Lake (Paris A. & W. Galignani & Co. 1827), xxii, 383pp., 8°; Do. [reiss. of 1872 edn.] (Paris 1829 [1830]), xxxii. 408pp.
  • Poetical Works, melodies, ballads, &c. (Philadelphia 1829).
  • The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, complete in two volumes [Baudry’s European library] (Paris: Baudry, rue du Coq [nr. Louvre] 1835).
  • The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, collected by himself, 10 vols. (London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longmans / Paternoster Row 1840-41) [see contents]; Do. complete in one volume (London; Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans 1843), lv, 691pp., ill. [1 lf. of pls., port.; add. engrav. t.p.; Prefaces to the 10-vol. collected edn. of 1841-42 as pp.[xv]-lv], 24cm; Do. [new impressions] (1845, 1854), 17cm. [Vol. 1 352pp.; Vol. 2: 343pp.; Vol. 3: 355pp; Vol. 4: 359pp.; Vol. 5 315pp.; Vol. 6: 322pp.; Vol. 7: 395pp.; Vol. 8: 259pp.; Vol. 9: 416pp.; Vol. 10: 380pp.]; Do., complete in one volume (London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans 1854) lv, 691pp., ill., 24cm; and Do. (Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans 1854), xliv, 571pp., ill. [port.], 20cm.
  • The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, 5 vols. [Tauchnitz Collection of British Authors, Vols.26-30] (Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz 1842 ([actually 1876?]), 16cm. [Vol. 1: 391pp.; Vol. 2: 362pp.; Vol. 3: viii, 354pp; Vol. 4: viii, 382pp.; Vol. 5: viii, 405pp. - copyright edn.]
  • The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, complete in one volume [ress. of 1841 Edn. in 1 vol.] (London: Longmans, Brown, Green & Longmans, Pater-noster Row 1848), 691pp. [see contents]; Do. [rep. edn.], in 10 vols. (London: Longman, Green, Brown & Longmans 1853); Do. [another edn.; in 1 vol.] (London: Longman & Co. 1853), lv, 691pp.; Do. [another edition] (London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts 1856), xliv, 571pp., ill. [1 lf. of pls., port.], 19cm.; Do. [another edn.] (Longman ... Roberts 1857), lv, 691pp., ill. [1 pl., front.] - see contents]; Do. (London: Longman, Green, Longmans, & Roberts 1860), xv, [1], 752pp. [text in 2 cols.]; Do. [rep. edn.] (Longmans 1865).
  • Poetical Works ... &c. (Halifax: Milner & Sowerby, [187-]), xv, 477pp., 17cm.; and cf. Lalla Rookh and Irish Melodies (Halifax: Milner & Sowerby 1865), 128pp.
  • The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, with a critical memoir by W. M. Rossetti [Moxon’s Poets] (London: Moxon [187-], xxviii, 595pp., ill. [7 lvs. of pls.; ills. by Thomas Seccombe], 19cm.; Do., reiss. as The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, edited, with a critical memoir by William Michael Rossetti [1829-1919], illustrated by Thomas Seccombe (London: Ward, Lock &co. [1882], [1878] 1911), xxviii, 595pp., ill, [7 lvs. of pls.], 21cm.
  • The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, complete, with numerous illustrations by F. Gilbert (London: John Dicks [1871]), [4], ii, 172, vipp. [text in 2 cols.], 18.7cm.
  • Moore’s Poetical Works: Containing “Lalla Rookh”, “Irish Melodies”, “National airs”, “Ballads”, “Sacred songs”, &c.; with a life of the poet / illustrated by forty-eight steel engravings from original paintings by W.P. Frith, E.M. Ward, A. Elmore, &c.; and a portrait of Moore, from the celebrated painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence (London: London Printing & Publishing Co. [1879]), 200pp., ill. [49 lvs. of pls.], 35cm.
  • Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, with a life of the author (London: Routledge, Warne & Routledge, 1859, 1863 [1881]), xxvii, 528pp.
  • The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, reprinted from the early editions, with explanatory notes, &c. [The Lansdowne Poets] (London & NY: Frederick Warne [1872] [1881]), xvii, 673, [1]pp., 8°/20cm. [Cambridge; TCD; Nat. Trust]; Do. [Chandos Classics] (London: Frederick Warne & Co.; NY: Scribner, Welford & Co. [1872]), [1], xii, 635, [2]pp., 18cm.
  • The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, ed. with memoir and notes by Charles Kent [The Blackfriars Poets] (London: Routledge 1883), xl, 599pp., 1 pl., 20cm.; Do. in [Routledge’s Presentation Poets; The Centenary Edition] (London: George Routledge [1883], 1885), xl, 599pp., ill., 19cm & 21cm.
  • The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, new edition, carefully revised, with a memoir by David Herbert (Edinburgh: Nimmo [1871] 1872), 475pp. and Do. (Nimmo [1876] 1882, 1884), xvi, 496pp.,8°/19cm.
  • The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore [sel. &] ed., with an introduction by John Dorrian [Canterbury Poets] (London; Newcastle-on-Tyne: Walter Scott 1888), xxii, 306, [6]pp., 14cm.
  • The Select Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, edited, with a prefatory note, by J[ohn] R[amsden] Tutin. [Newbery Classics] (London: Griffith, Farran &co. [1892]), xxxix, 515pp., 19cm.
  • The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore (London: Bliss Sands 1897, 1902), xxiv, 511pp., ill [1 lf. of pls., front. port.; text in 2 cols.], 22cm. [spine: Moore’s Poetical Works].
  • [C. Litton Falkiner, ed. & intro.,] Poetry of Thomas Moore, selected and arranged by C. Litton Falkiner [Golden Treasury Ser.] (London: Macmillan & Co. 1903), 253pp. [ded. to Edward Dowden; ‘in pleasant recollection of many kindnesses’; based on edition of 1841; incls. index of first lines; available at Internet Archive online].
  • A[lfred] D[enis] Godley, ed., Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, , with Biographical and Critical Notes [Oxford Edn.] (London: Henry Frowde / Oxford University Press 1910), xxx, 751pp., 1 lf. of pls. [front. port.; half-title; text in red border], 19cm.; Do. [new edns. , 1915, 1929].
American Editions
  • The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore ... &c. (Philadelphia: J. Crissy; Thomas, Cowperthwait &co. 1839), 419pp., ill. [port.], 8º.
  • The Poetical Works / of Thomas Moore, collected by himself. In six volumes. With a memoir [6 vols.] (Boston: Little, Brown & Company. Shepard, Clark & Co.; Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co. 1856), 1 pl., port.; 16.4cm.
  • The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, with a portrait (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. 1858), 518pp., 8° [add. t.p., engraved].
  • Moore [i.e., collected works] (Chicago: M. Donohoe & Co. [n.d.]), 1 vol. [contents up to Corruption and Intolerance; pref. by unsigned biographical notice, i-ix; available at Internet Archive online].
  • Thomas Moore: A New Collated Edition / to which is added / An Original Memoir / by M. Balmanno, 2 vols. in 1 (NY: Johnson, Fry & Company / 27 Beekman St. [n.d.]), 827pp., oversize; ill., front. port. of Moore; another of Sloperton Cottage; [“in this edition the names which, for personal and political considerations, were left blank are now for the first time filled up, rendering the obscure passages perfectly intelligible”: t.p. parenth.; available at Internet Archive online].
  • The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore / reprinted from the early editions, with explanatory notes; illustrated by Garrett, Hassam, St. John Harper and others (NY: T. Y. Crowell &co. [1884]), 670pp., ill. front. ill[s]., 21cm.
 
Correspondence & Journals
  • The Memoirs, Journals and Correspondence of Thomas Moore, ed. by [Right Honourable Lord] John Russell, 8 vols. (Longmans 1853-56); Do. 2 vols. (NY: Appleton 1857) [reproducing 57 of 1,200 letters].
  • Tom Moore’s Diary, sel & ed. by J. B. Priestley Cambridge UP, 1925).
  • The Journal of Thomas Moore, ed. by Peter Quennell [rev. edn.] (London: Batsford [Collins] 1964), xv, 256pp. ill. [pls. incl. port.; journals 1818-1841].
  • The Letters of Thomas Moore, ed. by Wilfred S. Dowden, 2 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1964).
  • The Journal of Thomas Moore, Vol. 1, ed. W. S. Dowden (Delaware UP; Assoc. UP 1983), 399pp. [first of 6 projected vols.; the rediscovered Journal covers 1818-1847].
  • Catalogue of a Collection of upwards of one thousand autograph letters, addressed by Thomas Moore to Mr. James Power, his music publisher, between the years 1808 and 1836. ... sold by ... Messrs. Puttick and Simpson (London 1853), 1 vol., 8° [incorporating quotations and accounts of letters absent in Russell edition; a copy is held in Glasgow UL - see COPAC online; accessed 1.11.2010].
  • Notes from the Letters of Thomas Moore to his Music Publisher, James Power. With an introductory Letter from T. C. Croker with a Letter from Thomas Crofton Croker ... to J. S. Redfield ... respecting the sale ... of the letters of Thomas Moore (NY: Redfield [1854]), xxxii, ix, 176pp.; [see further under Croker, q.v.; also full-text version in RICORSO Library - as attached].

See also ...

    • Joseph Blanco White, Second Travels of an Irish Gentleman in Search of Religion, with notes and ills., not by the Editor of “Captain Rock’s Memoirs”, 2 vols. (Dublin: Richard Milliken & Son; London: B. Fellowes 1833) [see details].
 

Bibliographical details
The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, collected by himself, 10 vols. (London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longmans / Paternoster Row 1840-41) [printed by London: Spottiswoodes and Shaw, New-street-Square; each vol. with add. engrav. t.p. and front]. CONTENTS - Vol. 1: Odes of Anaereon. Juvenile poems. Vol. 2: Juvenile poems. Poems relating to America. Vol. 3: Corruption and intolerance. Sceptic. Twopenny post-bag. Satirical and humorous poems. Irish melodies. Vol. 4: Irish melodies. National airs. Sacred songs. Vol. 5: Evenings in Greece. Ballads, songs, miscellaneous poems, etc. Vol. 6: Lalla Bookh. Vol. 7: Lalla Rookh. Political and satirical poems. Fudge family in Paris. Fables for the Holly Alliance. Rhymes on the road. Miscellaneous poems. Vol. 8: Loves of the angels. Miscellaneous poems. Satirical and humorous poems. Vol. 9: Satirical and humorous poems. Fudges in England. Miscellaneous. Vol. 10: Epicurean. Alciphron. Index. (index to the whole at end of Vol. 8.)

The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, in 10 vols. (London: Longmans, Brown, Green & Longmans, Pater-noster Row 1853). CONTENTS - Vol. 1: Odes of Anacreon, translated into English verse, with notes; Juvenile poems. Vol. 2: Juvenile poems; Poems relating to America. Vol. 3: Corruption, and Intolerance: two poems; The sceptic, a philosophical satire; Two penny post-bag, by Thomas Brown the Younger; Satirical and humorous poems; Irish melodies. Vol. 4: Irish melodies; National airs; Sacred songs. Vol. 5: Evenings in Greece; Legendary ballads; Set of glees; Ballads, songs, miscellaneous poems, &c.; Songs from the Greek anthology; Unpublished songs, &c. Vol. 6: Lalla Rookh. Vol. 7 Lalla Rookh (cont.); Political and satirical poems; The Fudge family in Paris; Fables for the Holy alliance; Rhymes on the road; Miscellaneous poems. Vol. 8: The loves of the angels; Miscellaneous poems; Satirical and humorous poems. Vol. 9: Satirical and humorous poems; The Fudges in England, being a sequel to the Fudge family in Paris; Songs from M.P.; or, The blue stocking. Miscellaneeous poems. [Available at Internet Archive online; accessed 8.11.2010.]

The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, including The Epicurean / with Explanatory Notes, Etc., / Reprinted from the Latest Revised Edition / Illustrated (New York: The Arundel Print [188?]), 785pp.. [Contents as Poetical Works, 1853, supra; with additionally The Epicurean: A Tale, pp.697; with Alciphron: A Fragment, p.772ff.] - available at Internet Archive online.



Moore’s Memorial Statue by Christopher Moore, in College Street, Dublin (1857)
The statue was an object of derision for William Carleton and James Joyce and perennial amusement for Dubliners, not least because a men’s public toilet was later built beneath it which local wits and Joyce himself facetiously called “The Meeting of the Waters’. The statue appears in both A Portrait of the Artist (1916) and in Ulysses (1922) and is the subject of very different reflections by Stephen and by Bloom. ...

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Bibliographical details
Irish Melodies (London: J. Power 1808-34)
 
[ See contents of the serialised fascicles, called ‘numbers’, of Irish Melodies - attached. ]
 

A Selection of Irish Melodies: with symphonies and accompaniments by Sir John Stevenson ... and characteristic words by Thomas Moore Esqr. [10 parts] (Dublin: publish’d & sold at W. Powers 4, Westmorland Street and at J. Power’s 34, Strand, London, [1807-1834]), 10 parts, mus., pls., fol. [copy in National Trust - but note differences between James and William in relation to Eighth Number et seq., as infra]. Accompaniments for the Eighth Number and after were contrib. by Henry R. Bishop and an edition issued in Dublin by William Power, giving the author of the accompaniments as Stevenson, was made the subject of litigation by his brother James in London. A reprint series of Pts. 1-7 was undertaken by Cramer, Addison and Beale, in London, with the agreement with James Power, commencing with Part 1 in 1836 and continuing with Pts. 2-6 in 1840 - bibliographically styled a reissue of the J. Power, London, edition, probably using old sheets of music with new letterpress. The same was reissued by Addison & Hodson in circa 1845 [undated] and issued by Cramer, Addison and Beale again in serial form serially again [Pts. 1-7] during in 1860, with new accompaniments by G[eorge] A[lexander] Macfarren. See also B[enjamin] Williams’ Complete Edition of Moore’s Irish Melodies, with the original Symphonies and Accompaniments by Sir J. Stevenson. Pt. 1. [&c.] (London: B. Williams 1859), 8°

 
Note also the Catalogues:
  • A Catalogue of the vocal music of Thomas Moore, Esqr. (Dublin: published by W. Power, 4, Northumberland St. and J. Power, 34, Strand, London, [1807]), [4], 101, [1] pp., music, 34cm. [engraved; Imprint from foot of the preface: James Cumming & Co. printers, Temple-lane; incls. printed index].
  • A Catalogue of vocal music, by Thomas Moore, Esq. and Sir John Stevenson, Mus. Doc. ([London:] Printed for J. Power, manufacturer of military musical instruments, music-seller and publisher, No. 34, Strand, London; and W. Power, No. 4, Westmorland-Street, Dublin; Strand, 1812-16; 4 pts. in 2; music; 34cm. [being catalogued from title page of Volume 2 [Third Number] of Irish Melodies [identified as 1-4]. The London edn. is printed by J. Rayer, Harvey’s Buildings.
Irish Melodies - serial parts
For contents of each number, see listing - attached
  • A Selection of Irish Melodies, with Symphonies and Accompaniments by Sir John Stevenson, Mus. Doc., and Characteristic Words by Thomas Moore, Esqr. [First Number] (London: James Power, Music and Instrument Warehouse, 34 Strand; Dublin: William Power, Power’s Music Warehouse, Westmoreland St. 1808), 51pp. [i.e., 8, 63, 1pp.; prelims. printed by J. Reynell; another edn. c.1815 [watermark].
  • A Selection of Irish Melodies, with Symphonies and Accompaniments by Sir John Stevenson, Mus. Doc., and Characteristic Words by Thomas Moore, Esqr. [Second Number] (London: J[ames] Power 1808), pp.52-101pp. [Irish impr. 1 score ([7], 52-102 p., [2] leaves of plates, with reverse printers details - i.e., Dublin before London].
  • A Selection of Irish Melodies, with Symphonies and Accompaniments by Sir John Stevenson, Mus. Doc., and Characteristic Words by Thomas Moore, Esqr. [Third Number] (London: J[ames] Power 1810), 4, 59pp. [incls. ’A prefatory letter’ dated ‘Dublin, January 1810’, pp.[1-4]; Do. (Dublin: published and sold at W. Power’s ... and at. J. Power’s ... London [1815]), 1 score ([4], 4, [4], 3-61, [3]pp., [1], ill. [1] leaf of pls.; fol. [i.e., later issue of 1810 edition; imprint J. J. Cumming.]
  • A Selection of Irish Melodies, with Symphonies and Accompaniments by Sir John Stevenson, Mus. Doc., and Characteristic Words by Thomas Moore, Esqr. [Fourth Number] (London: J[ames] Power), 1811), pp.60-109; Do. [another edn.] (Dublin: published and sold at W. Power’s ... and at. J. Power’s ... London [1812]), 1 score ([9], 62-111, [3]pp., fol. [advert. dated London Jan. 1812; t.p. engrav. Sandys [London].]
  • A Selection of Irish Melodies, with Symphonies and Accompaniments by Sir John Stevenson, Mus. Doc., and Characteristic Words by Thomas Moore, Esqr. [Fifth Number] (London: J[ames] Power; & Dublin: W[illiam] Power 1813), 2-63pp. t.p. ill. engraved by Sylvester, London]
  • A Selection of Irish Melodies, with Symphonies and Accompaniments by Sir John Stevenson, Mus. Doc., and Characteristic Words by Thomas Moore, Esqr. [Sixth Number] (London: J[ames] Power; & Dublin: W[illiam] Power 1815), pp.64-125; [London: Sold at J. Power’s music & instrument warehouse; incls. list of subscribers.]
  • A Selection of Irish Melodies, with Symphonies and Accompaniments by Sir John Stevenson, Mus. Doc., and Characteristic Words by Thomas Moore, Esqr. [Seventh Number] (London: J[ames] Power [1 Oct.] 1818); [9] 2-66pp.; another edn. ( Dublin: W[illiam] Power 1818), 1 score, [7] 2-66pp., fol. [t.p. engrave. J. Mitan [London]; imprint W. Cowes [London]; Martyn [Dublin]; Dublin imprint J. J. Nolan]; Do. [2nd. iss.] (Dublin [1820]).
  • A Selection of Irish Melodies, with Symphonies and Accompaniments by Henry R. Bishop, and Characteristic Words by Thomas Moore, Esqr. [Eighth Number] (London: J[ames] Power 1821), 67-136pp.; Do., with .... accompaniments by Sir John Stevenson [sic] (Dublin: William Power 1821), 67-112pp. [undated “Advertisement” and dedication leaf;, ill. t.p. and plate, engraved by J. Martyn, Dublin - this edn. being called a piracy, for which the an injunction was sought by the publisher’s brother (James Power), who issued the “authorized” edn. in London with music by H. Bishop.]
  • Do., with symphonies and accompaniments by Henry R. Bishop [Ninth Number] (London: J[ames] Power 1824), [6] 58pp., 39cm.; t.p. ill. vignette of Sweet Innisfallen ... &c., drawn by Marianne Nicholson and engrav. by Letitia Byrne; printed boards with imprint of J. Rayer].
  • Do., with symphonies and accompaniments by Henry R. Bishop [Tenth Number] (London: Addison & Hodson [q.d.]), 59-122pp., 35cm. [ded. “Sloperton Cottage, May, 1834”.
  • Do., Supplement to conclude a selection of Irish Melodies, with symphonies and with accompaniments by Henry R. Bishop] (London: James Power ... [1834]), 1 score, [4], pp.123-145, 38cm. contains “The wine cup is circling (Michael Hoy)”; “The dream of those days (air: I love you above all the rest)”; “From this hour the pledge is given (air: Renardine)”; “Silence is in our Festal Halls (air: The green woods of Truigha [viz., Coillte glasa an Triugha)”.

Note: Dublin and London imprints commonly vary in publisher, printer and t.p. engraver; all are variously arranged for 1-4 or 1-3 voices.

 
Irish Melodies (col. & sel. editions)
  • Irish Melodies, with symphonies and accompaniments by Sir John Stevenson, Mus. Doc., and Sir Henry Bishop [1st Collected Edn.] (Dublin: W. Power, 4 Westmoreland St.; London: W. Power, 34 Strand 1820).
  • Irish Melodies / by Thomas Moore, Esq. With an appendix, containing the original advertisements, and the prefatory letter on music (London: Printed for J[ames] Power [...], and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row, MDCCCXXI [1821]), xii, 254p : ill. [wood-engravings ‘from the designs of W.H. Brooke’ - t.p. verso], 17 cm. [Second issue with dedication dated: Paris, June 10th, 1821 and a preface and appendix not present in the first issue].
  • Irish Melodies / by Thomas Moore, ... with an appendix, containing the original advertisements, and the prefatory letter on music [Fourth Edition] (London: Printed for J. Power ... and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown MDCCCXXIII [1823]), xii, 239, [1]pp., ill. [vigns]; 8°/18cm. [t.p. verso: pinted by William Clowes; engravings from the designs of W. H. Brooke]; Do. [4th edn.] (London: J. Power ... Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown ... MDCCCXXIII [1823]), xii, 239pp., ill., 18cm.; [printer Clowes; engrav. Brooke]; Do. [7th edn.] (London 1825); [12th edn. ] (London: J. Power 1834).
  • “The Last Rose of Summer” ... from Moore’s selection of Irish melodies, arranged with symphonies and accompaniment by Sir John Stevenson (London: J. Power [1823]), 1 score, 7pp., 36cm.
  • Moore’s Irish and National Melodies [27th edn.] (Philadelphia 1829), 14cm.
  • A Selection of Irish Melodies, with Symphonies and Accompaniments by Sir John Stevenson, Mus. Doc., and Characteristic Words by Thomas Moore, Esqr. [reiss. of First Number] (London: Cramer, Addison & Beale, 201 Regent St. and 67 Conduit St. [1834]), 1 score, [6], 63, [1]pp., 39cm [reiss. of 1834 Edn., prob. using old music sheets with new letter-press; watermark 1826; with Power’s prospectus and imprint of C. Roworth & Sons, London; and note further reissues in 1840 reprinted on same basis up to 10th Number, 1834-1840].
  • Irish Melodies, ill. by [Daniel] Maclise [new edition] (London: Printed for Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, Paternoster-Row 1854), iv, [6] ,280p. : ill. [engrav.], 8°. [a copy enscribed to John Forster by ‘his old friend’ Maclise held in V&A Museums]; Do. [new edition] (London: Longmans, Green & Co. 1866), 270pp. [without mus.]
  • Irish Melodies [trans. as.] Cantus Hibernici / auctore Thoma Moore. Latine nonnulli quidem græce redditi ... editore Nicholao Lee Torre [viz., Nicholas Lee Torre, b.1795] Series Seconda (Leamington: T Knibb 1856 [1858]), xiv, [2], 111pp., 23cm., , 8° [copy in Nat. Lib. of Scotland; Leeds UL - called a novel].
  • Do., as Moore’s Irish Melodies, with symphonies and accompaniments by Sir John Stevenson, Mus. Doc., and Sir Henry Bishop [People’s Edn.] (London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts 1858), 384pp.
  • B[enjamin] Williams’ Complete Edition of Moore’s Irish Melodies, with the original Symphonies and Accompaniments by Sir J. Stevenson. Pt. 1. [&c.] (London: B. Williams 1859), 8°.
  • J[ohn] W[illiam] Glover, ed., Irish Melodies with Symphonies and Accompaniments by Sir J. Stevenson ... New edition, ed. (Dublin: J[ames] Duffy [1860]), 8°.
  • Moore’s Irish melodies / with new symphonies &accompaniments by G. A. Macfarren. (London : Cramer, Beale &chappell [var. Cramer Beale & Wood] [1859-61], 7 parts fol., [average 25pp.], mus. pl., for voice and piano; price 4/-; see table of contents attached]
  • Moore’s Irish Melodies. With new Symphonies and Accompaniments for the Pianoforte by M. W. Balfe (London: J. A. Novello [1859]), fol., and Do. [another edn.] (London: Novello, Ewer & Co. [1879]), 8°.
  • Do. [new edn.,] ed. W. Glover (Dublin: James Duffy, Wellington Quay [1859]), [334pp., printed by Edmund Burke & Co., 61 & 62 Gt. Strand St.].
  • [J. F. Waller, ed.,] Moore’s Irish Melodies : Lalla Rookh ; National airs ; Legendary ballads ; songs, &c., with a memoir by J. F. Waller, LL.D.; superb illustrations on steel and wood, 12 pts. (London: William Mackenzie [1867]), (2p. l, [i]-xxiv, 1-552 p., l., ill.; 24cm.; and Do. [another edn.] (London: Mackenzie [1900], xxiv, 553pp., ill. pls., port., 25cm.
  • Do. [as] A Selection of Irish Melodies / with symphonies and accompaniments by Sir John Stevenson and characteristic words by Thomas Moore, ed. by Francis Robinson [1799-1872]; Do. [or idem.?] (Bussell & McGlashan ?1870)
  • Irish melodies, with the celebrated and unsurpassed symphonies and accompaniments of Sir John Stevenson and Sir Henry Bishop ... with a biography of Thomas Moore and an essay on the music of Ireland (London [1881]), 4°[copy in Glasgow UL].
  • Irish Melodies and Songs [Routledge Pocket Book] (London: George Routledge 1881), 8°; Do. (Routledge & Sons 1887 [i.e., 1886]), 253pp., 15cm. [incls. index to first lines, pp.249-53].
  • T. O. Russell [ed.], and John MacHale [trans.], A selection of the most national and popular of Moore’s melodies / with translation in Irish by the late Most Rev. John MacHale, Archbishop of Tuam. Edited by T.O. Russell, with an appendix (Dublin 1899), 8°.
  • Moore’s Irish melodies, with symphonies and accompaniments [Stevenson & Bishop] ((Dublin: Gill 1903).
  • Stephen Gwynn, intro., Moore’s Melodies and Songs [The Muses’ Library] (London & NY: G. Routledge & Sons. Ltd. 1908), xxv, [11]-253pp., 16cm.
 
Irish Melodies (adaptations)
  • T[homas] J. Dipple [arr.], One hundred of Moore’s Melodies of Ireland, arranged for the Flute (Shepherd’s 100 popular Melodies of Ireland (London: J. Shepherd [1859]), 8°; F[rank] Romer, Moore’s Irish Melodies, arranged for Two Voices (London: Leader &cock [1860]), 7 no[s]., fol.
  • Edward Clare [ed.], Professor Clare’s Edition of Moore’s Irish Melodies, &c. No. 1-3, 5. (London: London: Holdernesse [1859]; H. White &Son, [1868]), var. fols. [songs inc. The Meeting of the Waters; Believe me, if all those endearing young charms, &c.]
  • Moore’s Irish Melodies (72 of the best). All solos, with symphonies and accompaniments for the pianoforte (London: Chas. Sheard [1865]), 104pp. iv, 8°.
  • F[rederick] R. Shrivall [arr.],, Moore’s Favorite Irish Melodies, arranged as Vocal Duets for Soprano &contralto (London: R. W. Ollivier [1870]), 6 no[s.], fol.
  • J. L. Molloy [arr. & ed.], The Songs of Ireland, including the most favourite of Moore’s Irish Melodies, and a ... collection of old Songs and Ballads, with new Symphonies and Accompaniments [Royal Edition] (London & NY: Boosey &co. 1873), 1 score, 129pp., 8°/26cm.; and Do. [4th enl. edn.], with J. L. Hatton (London: Boosey 1878), and Do. [(London: Boosey; NY: Wm. A Pond [19--], 220pp. [score], 26cm.
  • J. F. Waller [ed.], The National Moore. Centenary edition including the “Airs” of the “Irish Melodies”, “National Airs”, &c., and a memoir by J. F. Waller (London &Dublin: W. Mackenzie [1880]), 4° [or 4 vols.].
  • Sir Charles Villiers Stanford, arr., The Irish melodies of Thomas Moore / the original airs restored and arranged for the voice with pianoforte accompaniment by Charles Villiers Stanford (London & NY: Boosey &co 1895), 1 score (4pp., l., [7]-11, 251pp.; 28cm. [incls. “Drink to her” from 3rd Number], “Oh, Ye Dead” [from 8th Number], &c., all as 1 score, fol.].
  • D. Ryan, [words to airs of songs by Moore], in The Musical Bijou for MDCCCXLI and [Do.] for MDCCCXLII, MDCCXLIII, II [1843]) [viz., “Oh! lead the Dance”; “When around me I see dear Friends of my Soul”; “Oh! sigh no more o’er happier Days”, “Oh ’tis sweet in gay and festive Bow’rs”; “The Warrior’s Death”; “We are two pretty maidens”; “The World May Journey as it will; The Friends we Leave Behind Us”; “Our Joys of old”, “We part but not forever”, et al.]
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  • Moore’s Irish Melodies; tTen melodies for voice and piano, arranged by Benjamin Britten, Britten, Folksong Arrangements (1960), Vol. 4.
  • David Hammond, ed., with foreword by Seamus Heaney, A Centenary Selection of Moore’s Melodies (Skerries, Dublin: Gilbert Dalton 1979) [Heaney records ‘his own sense that an Irish past was woven’ out of those melodies].
 
Irish Melodies (in translation)
  • Henri Jouselin, Mélodies Irlandaises [with] une preface par M. Jules Janin ( Paris: E. Maillet 1869) [see details].
National Airs (London: James Power 1820-27) *
  • National Airs, Vol. 2 (London J. Power 1820).
  • National Airs, Vol. 3 (London: J. Power 1822).
  • National Airs, Vol. 4 (London: J. Power 1822).
  • National Airs, Vol. 5 (London: J. Power 1826).
  • National Airs, Vol. 6 (London: J. Power 1827).
[*Details to be added]
Scholarly editions
  • Jane Moore, ed., The Satires of Thomas Moore [British Satire, 1785-1840, Vol.5 - gen. ed., John Strachan] (London: Pickering & Chatto 2003), xxxvi, 555pp.

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Bibliographical details
[Memoirs of Captain Rock (1824 3rd Edn.)] - MEMOIRS / of / CAPTAIN ROCK, / THE / CELEBRATED IRISH CHIEFTAIN, / WITH SOME / Account of his Ancestors. / WRITTEN BY HIMSELF. / THIRD EDITION / LONDON: Printed for / LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, BROWN AND GREEN [T. C. Hansard, Pater-Noster-Row Press] 1824), 376pp. [See textual extract in RICORSO Library, “Irish Classics”, as attached.

Memoirs of Captain Rock (Longman, Hurst, &c.) - End-papers listing other works: 1]. Journal of a Voyage to Brazil, and redence [sic, for residence] there, during part of the Years 1821, 1822, and 1823; including an account of the Revolution which brought about the Independence of the Brazilian Empire. By Maria Graham, Author of Residence in India, &c. &c.,; Journal of a Residence in Chile and Voyage from the Pacific, in the years 1822 and 1823; preceded by an Account of the Revolution in Chile, since the year 1810, and particularly the Transactions of the Squadron under Lord Cochrane [n. auth.]; 2]. Travels in Brazil in the Years 1817, 1818, 1819, and 1820, Undertaken by the command of His Majesty the King of Bavaria and published under his special patronage. By Dr. John Von spix and Dr. Charles Von Martius [from the German]. 3]. Memoirs of Indian [...] By R. F. Wallace, Lieut. H. P. York Chasseurs. 4]. Fifteen Years in India, or Sketches of a Soldier’s Life; being an attempt to describe persons and things in various pars of Hindoostan. 5]. The English flora, by Sir James E. Smith, Pres. of the Linnaean Society. 6]. The Speeches of the Right Honourable Henry Grattan, in the Irish, and in the Imperial Parliament. Edited by his Son. In 4 vols., 8vo., £2.8.6; with extract from the Dedication: ‘They abound with precepts of philosophy, of morality, and of religion, and are founded in the spirit of genuine liberty. They furnish instruction to statesmen and to ministers, and contain advice to the people and the king.’ / ‘If they should contribute to the public good, they will accomplish the object of a life passed in the service of his country.’ Also may be had, in 8vo. 12s., boards, Miscellaneous Works of the Right Hon. Henry Grattan. 7]. Warreniana [..] by the Editor of the Quarterly Review. 8]. Prose by a Poet. 9]. Memoirs of a Captivity Among the Indians of North American, from Chidlhood to the age of Nineteen. With Anecdotes descriptive of their Manners and Customs, and an account of the territory westward of the Mississipi. To which are now added, Reflections on the present Condition of the Indians, and a Plan for the amelioration of their Circumstances. By John D. Hunter [3rd edn.]: ‘A history more calculated to attract the Public has not, in our opinion, been given since De Foe made Alexander Selkirk his own, under the Fiction of Robinson Crusoe’ [Lit. Gazette]. 10]. An Encylopaedia of Gardening. 11]. An Essay on the Inventions and Customs of both Ancients and Moderns in the Use of Inebriating Liquors [...] by Samuel Morewood, 12]. Journal of Ten Months Residence in New Zealand. By Richard A. Cruise, Esq., Capt. of the 84th Regt. Foot [‘maintained a constant intercourse with the Inhabitants and devoted much of his Leisure to their society, which afforded him full Opportunity of observing their general Customs and Manners’]. 13]. Duke Christian of Luneberg; or, Traditions from the Harp. By Miss Jane Porter. 14]. Wine and Walnuts: or after Dinner Chit-Chat, by Ephraim Hardcastle, Citizen and Drysalter [2nd edn.]. 15]. Scenes and Impression in Egypt and italy, by the Author of Recollections of the Peninsula, Sketches of India. 16]. Recollections of the Peninsula. 17]. Sketches of India. By a Traveller. For Fire-side Travellers at Home. [2nd edn.].

The History of Ireland, Vol. 1-4 [Dr. Lardner’s Cabinet Cyclopædia] (London: Longman, Rees, Brown, Green & Longman of Paternoster Row, & John Taylor 1835-46), Vol. I, xii, 321pp.; Vol. 2 (London: Longmans & Taylor 1840), xv, 345pp.; Vol. 3 (London: Longmans & Taylor 1840), xix, 327pp.; Vol. 4 (London: Longmans & Taylor 1846), xx, 313pp.

[Joseph Blanco White], Second Travels of an Irish Gentleman in Search of Religion, with notes and ills., not by the Editor of “Captain Rock’s Memoirs”, 2 vols. (Dublin: Richard Milliken & Son; London: B. Fellowes 1833), Vol. I: xvii, 249pp.; Vol. II: 245pp. 16°. [Copies held in 12 libraries incl. BL and TCD Lib.] dedication ‘To the People of Ireland’, signed by ‘One who Sincerely Loves them’, states that the people’s ‘Virtue, Improvement and Happiness Must Depend not on the Antiquity or Nationality, but on the Truth of the Religion’ (p.[v].) ‘The Editor to the Readers’ (pp.[vii]-xiv) states that ‘the work which is here laid before the public has Religious Truth, and nothing else for its object’ (p.xiv). Quotation from Goethe’s Faust verso of t.p. in Vol. 1. Lists of contents occupy pp.[xv]-xvii in Vol. 1 and 2pp. unn. in Vol. 2. ‘An Appendix on the Christian Evidence [...]’, pp.[193]-212, followed by ‘Illustrations’, pp.[213]-249, at end of Vol. 1. ‘Illustrations’, pp.[211]-242, and ‘Appendix’, pp.[243]-245, at end of vol. 2. Each vol. has printer’s mark of John S. Folds, 5, Bachelor’s Walk. Wolff (Item 4903) lists what is apparently a Dublin only edn. of the same year, though his transcription of the imprint is possibly unreliable. The first Travels of an Irish Gentleman in Search of a Religion (1833), by Thomas Moore, is not fiction, but a theological disquisition in the form of dialogues. [See English Novels 1830-36: A Bibliography of British Fiction (Cardiff) - online.] See also a German trans. of same (1835).

Mélodies Irlandaises / traduites en vers françaises par M. Henri Jouselin [conseiller à la Cour impériale de Paris], précédées d’une preface par M. Jules Janin [xxxiii], Paris: E. Maillet, Librairie-Editeur, 15, rue Tronchet, Boulevard Haussman à la Librarie Gènerale 1869), 282pp. [Table at end gives titles [i.e., first lines] and their French translations, e.g.: “What life like that of the bard can be? / Le Barde Voyageur”, to which is attached a note: ‘Il arrive souvent, en Irlande comme dans tous le reste de l’Angleterre, qu’on rencontre dans les prairies un espace en form d’anneau irrégulier, dont l’aridité contraste avec la richesse de la végétation qui l’entoure. Les paysan assurent que c’est la trace laissée par les fées de leurs danses nocturnes en ce lieu.’ [Copy held in Princess Grace Irish Library, Monaco.

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Moore with family by WH Fox (1844) and Moore’s harp made by Egan

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A curious misattribution ...

Note: The above item is held in the Biblioteca Digital del Patrimonio Iberoamericano - online. It consists in a 17pp. work of poetry prefaced with a letter signed by one James Barlow - listed in the WorldCat as James William Barlow - who purports to have found it among his father’s papers. in the preface he makes some passing remarks about the inferior rhymes of the piece and conjectures that it was not published earlier because the author was uncertain of its merit. The poem is set in Bermuda and concerns political misdeeds which may be intended as a reflection of Thomas Moore’s fiscal misadventures in that region. The text pages can be viewed individually but not scrolled at the relevant search address; accessed 15.03.2022. There is a link to The Moneyspinners at the BNE site of the Spanish Government Ministry of Education - online; accessed 15.03.2022]. I am grateful to Anne van Weerden for this discovery. [BS] For page-view of the work, see copy - attached.

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Criticism
  • William Hazlitt, “Mr. T. Moore - Mr. Leigh Hunt”, in Spirit of the Age (1825) [see extracts].
  • Charles Gavan Duffy, ‘Thomas Moore’, The Nation (1842) [obit. q.d.].
  • James [Lester] Burke [1819-1886], The Life of Thomas Moore (Dublin: James Duffy 1852; 1856), xii, 240pp., 16cm. [printed by Pattison Jolly]; Do. [Centenary Edn.] (Dublin: J. Duffy & Sons [1879]), 256pp., 16o [sic COPAC].
  • D. F. MacCarthy, The Centenary of Moore, May 28th, 1879: An Ode [with trans. into Latin from Rev. M. J. Blacker] (London: priv. 1880).
  • W. F. Trench, Tom Moore (Dublin 1934).
  • Miriam Allen de Ford, Thomas Moore (Twayne 1967).
  • Stephen L. Gwynn, Thomas Moore (Macmillan 1904, 1905), vvi, 203 [incls. ‘Dates of Moore’s publication’: pp.191-197.
  • Howard Mumford Jones, The Harp That Once: A Chronicle of the Life of Thomas Moore (NY: Henry Holt 1937), xvi, 365pp.
  • L. A. G. Strong, The Minstrel Boy, a Portrait of Tom Moore (London: Hodder & Stoughton; NY: Alfred Knopf 1937), xii, 317pp with index.
  • Hoover. H. Jordan, Bolt Upright: The Life of Thomas Moore, 2 vols. (Salzburg: Salzburg Institut für Englische Sprache und Literatur 1975).
  • Terence De Vere White, Tom Moore, The Irish Poet (London: Hamilton 1977).
  • Robert Welch, Irish Poetry from Moore to Yeats (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1980).
  • P. C. Power, The Story of Anglo-Irish Poetry 1800-1922 (Cork: Mercier 1967).
  • T. Tessier, The Bard of Erin, A Study of Thomas Moore’s Irish Melodies 1808-1834 (NJ: Humanities Press 1981).
  • Anthony Cronin, ‘Thomas Moore: The Necessary Bard’, in Heritage Now: Irish Literature in the English Language (Dingle: Brandon 1982), pp.31-36.
  • James W. O’Neill, ‘A Look at Captain Rock: Agrarian Rebellion in Ireland, 1815-1845’, in Éire-Ireland, 17 3 (Autumn 1982), pp.17-34.
  • Terence Brown, ‘Thomas Moore: A Reputation’, in Ireland’s Literature: Selected Essays (Dublin: Lilliput Press 1988) [prev. pub. in Gaeliana, Caen Univ. 1987].
  • Alexander Büchner, ‘Thomas Moore’, Geschichte de englischen Poesie: von der Mitte des vierzehnten bis zur Mitte des beunzehnten Jahrhundrets, Zweiter Theil, Darmstadt: Johann Philipp Diehl 1855, 260ff.. rep. in Jürgen Schneider & Ralf Sotscheck, Ireland: Eine Bibliographie selbständiger deutschsprachiger. Publikationen 16. Jahrhundret bis 1989 (Verlag de Georg Büchner Buchhandlung 1989), pp.109-12.
    Patrick O’Sullivan, ‘A Literary Difficulty in Explaining Ireland: Tom Moore and Captain Rock, 1824’, in The Irish in Britain, ed. Roger Swift & Sheridan Gilley ( [London: Rowman & Littlefield 1989), pp.239-74.
  • Patrick Rafriodi, ‘Thomas Moore: Towards a Reassessment?’, in Michael Kenneally, ed, Irish Literature and Culture [CAIS Conf., Marianopolis 1988] (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1992), pp.55-62.
  • Javed Majeed, ‘Thomas Moore and Orientalism’, in Ungoverned Imaginings: James Mill’s The History of British India and Orientalism (1992), pp.87-122 [formerly “Orientalism, utilitarianism, and British India: James Mill’s The History of British India and the Romantic Orient”, PhD. Diss., Oxford, 1988].
  • Mohammed Sharafuddin, ‘Thomas Moore’s Lalla Rookh & the Politics of Irony’, in Islam & Romantic Orientalism:: literary encounters with the Orient (London: Tauris 1994),pp.134-213 [formerly “Islam and Romanticism: A study of Orientalism in English Verse Narrative, 1798-1817”. Ph.D., York 1988].
  • Seamus Deane, ‘The Politics of Music: Thomas Moore’, in Strange Country: Modernity and Nationhood in Ireland Since 1790 (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1997), pp.66-69 [see extract].
  • Luke Gibbons, ‘Between Captain Rock and a Hard Place: Art and Agrarian Insurgency’, in Ideology and Ireland in the Nineteenth Century, ed. Tadhg Foley & Seán Ryder (Dublin: Four Courts Press 1998), pp.23-44.
  • Liam De Paor, ‘Tom Moore and Modern Ireland’, in Landscapes with Figures (Dublin: Four Courts 1998), pp.68-80.
  • Catherine A. Jones, ‘“Our Partial Attachments”: Tom Moore and 1798’, in Eighteenth-Century Ireland / Iris an dá chultúr, 13 (1998), pp.24-43
  • Matthew Campbell, ‘Tom Moore’s Wild Song: the 1821 Melodies’, in Bullán: A Journal of Irish Studies, 4 2 (2000), pp.83-103.
  • Harry White & Michael Murphy, eds., Musical Constructions of Nationalism: Essays on the History and Ideology of European Musical Culture 1800-1945 (Cork UP 2001).
  • Jeff Vail, The Literary Relationship of Lord Byron & Thomas Moore ([q.pub.] 2001) [q.pp.]
  • Linda Kelly, Ireland’s Minstrel: A Life of Tom Moore - Poet, Patriot and Byron’s Friend ([London] IB Tauris 2006), 262pp.
  • Emer Nolan, Catholic Emancipationists: Irish Fiction from Thomas Moore to James Joyce (Syracuse UP 2007), xxii, 240pp.
  • Humphrey Carpenter, The Seven Lives of John Murray, Publisher (London: John Murray 2008) [disputes that Moore destroyed Byron’s papers].
  • Ronan Kelly, Bard of Erin: The Life of Thomas Moore (Dublin: Penguin Ireland 2008), viii, 624pp., ill [12p. of pls., some col., ports.]
  • [...]
  • Brian Caraher & Sarah McCleave, eds., Thomas Moore and Romantic Inspiration: Music, Poetry, Politics (London: Routledge 2018) [see details].
 
See also Padraic Colum, ed., Anthology of Irish Verse (1922), ‘Introduction’ [in RICORSO Library, as attached]; Barra Boydell, ‘The United Irishmen, Music, Harps, and National Identity’, in Eighteenth-Century Ireland, 13 (1998), pp.44-51; also listed as Captain Rock: The Origins of the Irish Agrarian Rebellion of 1821-24 (2007); and Donnelly, Captain Rock: The Irish Agrarian Rebellion of 1821-1824 (Cork: Collins Press 2009).
 

On Captain Rock - see James S. Donnelly, Jnr., ‘Captain Rock: Ideology and Organization in the Irish Agrarian Rebellion of 1821-24’, in Éire-Ireland, 2007, 42, 3-4, pp.60-103; Donnelly, ‘Captain Rock: The Origins of the Irish Agrarian Rebellion of 1821-24’, in New Hibernia Review, 11, 4 (2007), pp.47-72, and Donnelly, Captain Rock: Ideology and Organization in the Irish Agrarian Rebellion of 1821–24 (2007); Denis A. Cronin, Who Killed the Franks Family? Agrarian Violence in Pre-famine Ireland (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2009).

 
Bibliographical details
Brian Caraher & Sarah McCleave, eds., Thomas Moore and Romantic Inspiration: Music, Poetry, Politics (London: Routledge 2018) - CONTENTS: Caraher & McCleave, ‘Moore and Romantic Inspiration Reassessed’. I: Moore’s Literary and Musical Inspirations. 1. Harry White, ‘The Imagined Unities of Thomas Moore’; 2. Jane Moore, ‘Amongst Women: Thomas Moore and Classical Inspiration’; 3. Edward Larrissy, ‘Moore’s Romantic Neoclassicism’; 4. Una Hunt, ‘Moore, Stevenson, Bishop and the Powers: A Series of Complex Relationships’. II: Moore’s Melodies, Airs and Songs in Performative Contexts. 5. Joanne Burns, ‘“Give them life by singing them about”: Moore’s Musical Performances in the English Drawing-room’; 6. Sheila Rooney, ‘Problematizing Primitivism: Contesting Antiquarianism in Moore’s Irish Melodies’; 7. Axel Klein, ‘ “All her lovely companions are faded and gone’: How “The Last Rose of Summer” Became Europe’s Favourite Irish Melody’; 8. Mary-Louise O’Donnell, ‘“Those half creatures of Plato”: The Musical Inspiration behind Moore’s National Airs and Sacred Songs’. III: Moore’s Political Inspirations and Moore’s Poetry in Political Contexts.  9. Jeffrey Vail, ‘Anacreon Moore and the Prince of Pleasure: George IV as Satiric Inspiration’; 10. Daniel Sanjiv Roberts, ‘Moore’s Oriental Artifice: Mughal History, Irish Antiquarianism and Romance in Lalla Rookh’; 11. Jennifer Martin, ‘The “dull lapse of hopeless slavery”: European & Irish Politics in Moore’s Fables for the Holy Alliance, Rhymes on the Road, &c. &c. (1823)’; 12. Robert W. Jones, ‘“Grief mingled with deep execrations”: Thomas Moore and the Death of Richard Brinsley Sheridan’.

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