Sir Samuel Ferguson

Sir Samuel Ferguson (10 March 1810 9 August 1886) was an Irish poet, barrister, antiquarian, artist and public servant. Perhaps the most important Ulster-Scot poet of the 19th century, because of his interest in Irish mythology and early Irish history he can be seen as a forerunner of William Butler Yeats and the other poets of the Celtic Twilight. he was elected President of the Royal Irish Academy, an organisation dedicated to the advancement of science, literature and antiquarian studies. His wife, Mary Guinness, was a great-niece of Arthur Guinness. --Works - Lament for the Death of Thomas Davis (1847); Cashel of Munster (1867); The Coolun (1867); Dear Dark Head (1867); The Poetry of Sir Samuel Ferguson (published 1887); Poems of Sir Samuel Ferguson (published 1918).