Dr. John Francis Waller, LL.D, J.P.

Wrote under the name Jonathan Freke Slingsby: a selection of his works was published in 'The Slingsby Papers' 1852, he also wrote the ballad 'The Spinning Wheel' made famous by Mary O'Hara.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX1SBCWHGxM - The Spinning Wheel - based on the poem written by Dr. John Francis Waller, recorded by Delia Murphy in 1939. The melody was added.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVx6IlwpUQAe - Spinning Wheel - a popular Irish song from the nineteenth century, written by Dr. John Francis Waller, here sung by Raymond Crooke.

http://www.raymondfolk.com/page/The+Spinning+Wheel

Dr. John Francis Waller, LL.D., J.P., the author of the exquisite 'The Spinning Wheel' (c. 1853) (Number 22 in the Anthology of Irish Verse (1922) edited by Padraic Colum (1881–1972)) was born in 1809 in County Limerick (Contae Luimneach or Luimnigh), United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. He was one of the founders and later editor of the Dublin University Magazine, which he eventually bought from Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873). He wrote extensively under the name Jonathan Freke Slingsby. Waller's comic and sentimental contributions to it in verse and prose were anthologized as 'The Slingsby Papers' in 1852. He was elected to the Royal Dublin Society as a life member in 1840. No less than Oscar Wilde rendered a tribute to Waller's literary gifts on 5 April 1882, in San Francisco, California USA. Wilde gave a public lecture to the local Irish-American community on ‘Irish Poets of the Nineteenth Century', quote: "There are many others worthy of mention and quotation… John Francis Waller, a delicate lyricist full of light and laughter and little shallow flights of song, one of whose poems is so exquisite that I must quote it – the one called ‘Kitty Neil'."

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