Thomas MacGreevy was an influential Irish poet who played a leading role in the development of modernism in Irish literary history. He also had a keen interest in art, being director of the National Gallery of Ireland for thirteen years from 1950. This position also allowed him to serve an organisation known as An Chomhairle Ealaíon, the first Irish Arts Council. He was born ...
Thomas Morley was an English 16th century lyric poet and composer who was a leading figure in the Madrigal movement of music composition. He was around right up to the end of the Renaissance period which encompassed the whole of Europe for about two hundred years up to the year 1600. His passion for music also gave him a deep interest in the ...
Thomas Vaux was a 16th century poet and nobleman also known as the 2nd Baron Vaux of Harrowden, KB. He had strong royal connections with the Tudor court. His mother, for example, was the maternal aunt of Queen Catherine Parr, the last wife of Henry VIII. This, of course, placed him as a first cousin to the Queen. His court responsibilities included ...
Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd was an English writer, parliamentarian and member of the judiciary who added the letters SL after his name when, in 1835, he became one of the ancient order of barristers that were entitled to call themselves Serjeant-at-Law while serving at the English bar. He numbered famous literary figures amongst his close friends, including Charles Dickens who dedicated his ...
Thomas Parnell was an Irish born poet and clergyman who became known as one of the so-called “Graveyard Poets”. His clerical appointments included the post of archdeacon in the diocese of Clogher in 1705, a small parish in County Tyrone, now part of Northern Ireland. He was born on the 11th September 1679 in Maryborough, Queen"s County. Nowadays the town is known as Port ...
