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.
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