1. William Allingham was an Irish poet, diarist and editor.
10 Facts About William Allingham
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William Allingham wrote several volumes of lyric verse, and his poem "The Faeries" was much anthologised.
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William Allingham's wife, Helen Allingham, was a well-known watercolourist and illustrator.
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William Allingham was born on 19 March 1824 in Ballyshannon, a small town in the south of County Donegal in Ulster in the north of Ireland, which is in the Republic of Ireland.
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William Allingham was the son of William Allingham, the manager of a local bank who was of English descent.
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William Allingham was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution until the age of 14, when he obtained a post in the custom-house of his native town, and held several similar posts in Ireland and England until 1870.
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William Allingham edited The Ballad Book for the Golden Treasury series in 1864, and Fifty Modern Poems in 1865.
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William Allingham's wife gave up her work as an illustrator and would become well known under her married name as a water-colour painter.
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In 1888, because of William Allingham's declining health, they moved back to the capital, to the heights of Hampstead village.
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William Allingham's ashes are interred at St Anne's church in his native Ballyshannon.