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William McGonagall

1825 - 1902

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William McGonagall (March 1825 – 29 September 1902) was a Scottish poet and public performer. He gained notoriety as an extremely bad poet who exhibited no recognition of, or concern for, his peers' opinions of his work. He wrote about 200 poems, including "The Tay Bridge Disaster" and "The Famous Tay Whale", which are widely regarded as some of the worst in English literature. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William McGonagall has received more than 797,151 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). William McGonagall is the 4,856th most popular writer (down from 4,289th in 2019), the 223rd most popular biography from Ireland (up from 3,252nd in 2019) and the 35th most popular Irish Writer.

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  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 3.36

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, William McGonagall ranks 4,856 out of 5,755. Before him are L. J. Smith, Victoire Léodile Béra, Michael Scott, Francis Bebey, Margery Kempe, and Kenneth Copeland. After him are Roger Hargreaves, Natalya Baranskaya, Antti Tuuri, Karin Slaughter, František Langer, and Kate Atkinson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1825, William McGonagall ranks 66. Before him are Pashko Vasa, Emil Welti, Ferdinand von Mueller, E. Marlitt, Federico Errázuriz Zañartu, and Anton Heinrich Springer. After him are Aleksey Pleshcheyev, George Inness, John Lawrence LeConte, A. P. Hill, R. M. Ballantyne, and Benjamin Mountfort. Among people deceased in 1902, William McGonagall ranks 69. Before him are Emil Holub, Aisha Taymur, Frank Norris, Franz Sigel, Walter Reed, and Johannes Wislicenus. After him are Enrique Gaspar y Rimbau, Ludwig von Brenner, Juan Bautista Egusquiza, John Henry Twachtman, Jimmy Ross, and Wade Hampton III.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, William McGonagall ranks 223 out of 501. Before him are Kathleen Antonelli (1921), Robert McClure (1807), John Philip Holland (1840), Lena Rice (1866), Michael Scott (1959), and Luke Kelly (1940). After him are William Henry Harvey (1811), Robert O'Hara Burke (1821), Eoin Colfer (1965), J. B. Bury (1861), Patrick Ryan (1881), and Steve Barron (1956).

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Among WRITERS In Ireland

Among writers born in Ireland, William McGonagall ranks 35. Before him are Richard Steele (1672), William Trevor (1928), George Moore (1852), Elizabeth Bowen (1899), John Boyne (1971), and Michael Scott (1959). After him are Eoin Colfer (1965), Terence MacSwiney (1879), John Connolly (1968), Colm Tóibín (1955), Margaret Mazzantini (1961), and Cecelia Ahern (1981).

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