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Thomas Moore

1779 - 1852

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Thomas Moore (28 May 1779 – 25 February 1852), was an Irish writer, poet, and lyricist celebrated for his Irish Melodies. His setting of English-language verse to old Irish tunes marked the transition in popular Irish culture from Irish to English. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Moore has received more than 1,153,614 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Thomas Moore is the 1,367th most popular writer (down from 1,334th in 2019), the 58th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 52nd in 2019) and the 13th most popular Irish Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.28

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 42

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.44

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.11

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Lalla Rookh
Irish authors, English poetry, Oriental Civilization
Lalla Rookh is an Oriental romance by Thomas Moore, published in 1817. The title is taken from the name of the heroine, the daughter of the 17th-century Mughal emperor Aurangzeb. The work consists of four narrative poems with a connecting tale in prose. *Wikipedia*
1800
Travels of an Irish gentleman in search of a religion
Catholic Church, Catholic authors, Controversial literature
1833
Irish melodies
Poetry, Nationalism, English poetry
1800
Poems
Criticism and interpretation, Poetry, Accessible book
1800
Six Ideas That Shaped Physics
Study and teaching, Physics, Mechanics
1998
The Epicurean
Accessible book
1827
Poems
Criticism and interpretation, Poetry, Irish poetry
1800
Lalla Rookh
Irish authors, English poetry, Oriental Civilization
Lalla Rookh is an Oriental romance by Thomas Moore, published in 1817. The title is taken from the name of the heroine, the daughter of the 17th-century Mughal emperor Aurangzeb. The work consists of four narrative poems with a connecting tale in prose. *Wikipedia*
1800
Irish melodies
Poetry, Nationalism, English poetry
1800
Memoirs, Journal, and Correspondence of Thomas Moore
Moore, thomas, 1779-1852, Authors, correspondence, Authors, biography
2013
Six Ideas That Shaped Physics
Study and teaching, Physics, Mechanics
1998
The Epicurean
1827

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Thomas Moore ranks 1,367 out of 7,302. Before him are Joseph Bédier, Symeon the Metaphrast, Per Olov Enquist, Diana Gabaldon, Ibn al-Nadim, and Joachim Fest. After him are Ildefonsus, Émile Gaboriau, Hartmann Schedel, Joanot Martorell, Hartmann von Aue, and Nicolás Gómez Dávila.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1779, Thomas Moore ranks 10. Before him are Friedrich Carl von Savigny, Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich of Russia, Elizabeth Alexeievna, Francis IV, Duke of Modena, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, and Antoine-Henri Jomini. After him are Giovanni Battista Bugatti, Abd al-Rahman of Morocco, Adam Oehlenschläger, Maria Cristina of Naples and Sicily, Lorenz Oken, and Duchess Louise Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Among people deceased in 1852, Thomas Moore ranks 17. Before him are Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, Vasily Zhukovsky, Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg, Ján Kollár, Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden, and Xavier de Maistre. After him are Marie of Hesse-Kassel, Hadji Murad, Prince Felix of Schwarzenberg, Táhirih, Gideon Mantell, and Gotthold Eisenstein.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Thomas Moore ranks 58 out of 549. Before him are David Kelly (1929), William C. Campbell (1930), Richard Cantillon (1680), Mary Jane Kelly (1863), George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence (1449), and Colin Farrell (1976). After him are Sinéad O'Connor (1966), Brian Cowen (1960), Mary Robinson (1944), George Francis FitzGerald (1851), Christy Brown (1932), and Kevin Farrell (1947).

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Among WRITERS In Ireland

Among writers born in Ireland, Thomas Moore ranks 13. Before him are W. B. Yeats (1865), Laurence Sterne (1713), Iris Murdoch (1919), Joseph Murphy (1898), Ethel Voynich (1864), and Saint Gall (550). After him are Christy Brown (1932), Sheridan Le Fanu (1814), John Banville (1945), Oliver Goldsmith (1728), Patrick Pearse (1879), and Charles Maturin (1780).

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