Michael Joseph Barry was an Irish

Ireland

Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

 poet, author, and political figure.

Life and career

Born in Cork, Ireland

Cork (city)

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, Barry was imprisoned in 1843 as a Young Irelander. That year an 1843 essay on repeal won the Repeal Association

Repeal Association

The Repeal Association was an Irish mass membership political movement set up by Daniel O'Connell to campaign for a repeal of the Act of Union of 1800 between Great Britain and Ireland....

 prize. He published his Kishoge Papers in Dublin University Magazine

Dublin University Magazine

The Dublin University Magazine was an independent literary cultural and political magazine published in Dublin from 1833 to 1882. It started out as a magazine of political commentary but increasingly became devoted to literature.-Early days:...

anonymously, later as "Bouillon de Garçon." He also published under the names "B.", "B.J.", "Beta", and "Brutus".

Books included:

• A Waterloo Commemoration
• Echoes from Parnassus
• Lays of the War
• Six Songs of a Beranger
• Heinrich and Leonore, an Alpine Story
• Ireland, as She Was, as She Is, and as She Shall Be
• Irish Emigration Considered
• Songs of Ireland (editor with Thomas Osborne Davis)

He recanted his early political views late in life and became a police magistrate in Dublin.