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Thomas Moore

1779 - 1852

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Thomas Moore (28 May 1779 – 25 February 1852), also known as Tom Moore, 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 1,091,421 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Thomas Moore is the 1,337th most popular writer (up from 1,374th in 2019), the 53rd most popular biography from Ireland (up from 59th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Irish Writer.

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  • 1.1M

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  • 58.61

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.58

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.76

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Thomas Moore ranks 1,337 out of 5,755. Before him are Joanot Martorell, Reinaldo Arenas, Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza, Robert Bloch, Chūya Nakahara, and Aleksis Kivi. After him are Nikolaus Lenau, Hartmann von Aue, Jakob Wassermann, Joyce Carol Oates, Radoje Domanović, and William Styron.

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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, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, Francis IV, Duke of Modena, and Antoine-Henri Jomini. After him are Maria Cristina of Naples and Sicily, George, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Abd al-Rahman of Morocco, Duchess Louise Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Adam Oehlenschläger, and Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. Among people deceased in 1852, Thomas Moore ranks 17. Before him are Karl Bryullov, Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden, Vasily Zhukovsky, Ján Kollár, Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg, 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 53 out of 501. Before him are Ethel Voynich (1864), John Tyndall (1820), Maureen O'Hara (1920), Harald Gille (1103), Ernest Walton (1903), and John Toland (1670). After him are Edward England (1685), Mary Jane Kelly (1863), David Kelly (1929), Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (1850), Colin Farrell (1976), and Christy Brown (1932).

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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), Joseph Murphy (1898), Saint Gall (550), Iris Murdoch (1919), and Ethel Voynich (1864). After him are Christy Brown (1932), Sheridan Le Fanu (1814), Charles Maturin (1780), Oliver Goldsmith (1728), Patrick Pearse (1879), and John Banville (1945).

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