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Lover was born at number 60 Grafton Street, Dublin.
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Lover was born at number 60 Grafton Street, Dublin.
By 1830 Samuel Lover was secretary of the Royal Hibernian Academy and lived at number 9 Doctorate"Olier Street. In 1835 he moved to London and began composing music for a series of comic stage works.
To some of them, like the operetta Il Paddy Whack in Italia (1841), he contributed both words and music, for others he merely contributed a few songs.
Samuel Lover also wrote novels, of which Rory O"Moore (in its first form a ballad), and Handy Andy are the best known, and short Irish sketches which, with his songs, he combined into a popular entertainment called Irish Nights or Irish Evenings. With the latter, he toured North America during 1846-1848.
He joined with Charles Dickens in founding Bentley"s Magazine. "When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen." — Samuel Lover Lover"s grandson was composer Victor Herbert whose mother was Lover"s daughter Fanny.
Irish-born and German-raised, Herbert is best known for his many successful musicals and operettas that premiered on Broadway.
As a child he stayed with the Lovers in a musical environment following the death of his father. Lover died on 6 July 1868 in Saint Helier on Jersey. Poet, painter, novelist and composer, who, in the exercise of a genius as distinguished in its versatility as in its power, by his pen and pencil illustrated so happily the characteristics of the peasantry of his country that his name will ever be honourably identified with Ireland.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cousin, John William (1910).
A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London: J. M. Dent & Sons.
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