About Hugh Porter
Lived 1780 – 1839 (aged 58–59). Hugh Porter was a poet.
Hugh Porter (1780–1812) was an Ulster Scots dialects poet and weaver. He was known as the Bard of Moneyslane, a village in County Down.
Porter started writing poetry as a teenager, although he likely had little formal education. Tighe was a friend of the translator Reverend Henry Boyd, and was part of the Dromore literary circle with Thomas Percy. In 1813, Poetical Attempts (1813), a volume of his work, was published "to exhilarate the evening of the author's life" with funds raised by Tighe.
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Irish poet
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Hugh Porter was born in 1780.
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Hugh Porter died in 1839.
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Hugh Porter was a poet.
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