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Samuel Ferguson
Irish writer
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- In Irish literature: Samuel Ferguson, Sydney Owenson, and Maria Edgeworth
Samuel Ferguson was an Ulster Protestant, unionist, and cultural nationalist whose poetry and prose, as well as antiquarian work, provided foundational texts for the Gaelic Revival of the 1830s and also, crucially, for a subsequent revival, the Irish literary renaissance, which began in the last…
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