SOURCE: Molloy, Frank. “‘The Sigh of Thy Harp Shall Be Sent O'er the Deep’: The Influence of Thomas Moore in Australia.” In The Irish World Wide History, Heritage, Identity. Vol. 3: The Creative Migrant, edited by Patrick O'Sullivan, pp. 115-32. London: Leicester University Press, 1994.

In the following essay, Molloy studies the considerable appeal the heroic themes and emotionally-charged language in Moore's Irish Melodies had for many nineteenth-century Irish-Australian poets.

He crossed under Tommy Moore's roguish finger. They did right to put him up over a urinal: meeting of the waters. Ought to be places for women. Running into cakeshops. Settle my hat straight. There is not in this wide world a vallee. Great song of Julia Morkan's.¹

Leopold Bloom's musings on noting the statue of Thomas Moore have long amused readers of Ulysses. Some may even have smiled with approval at Joyce, a master of modern literature, putting in...