Jane Francesca Elgee wrote as Speranza for the Young Ireland paper The Nation in the 1840s, long before she was known as the mother of Oscar Wilde. Dedicated to Ireland, these poems cry out against the Famine and the suffering poor, urge on patriot leaders and despondent nationalists, and mourn the exiled and the dead.
Passionate political verse that made Speranza a heroine of Irish nationalism. Download the free EPUB.