Author : Samuel Lover
Publisher : Blurb
ISBN 13 : 9781034339229
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (392 download)
Book Synopsis Handy Andy, Volume One (Esprios Classics) by : Samuel Lover
Download or read book Handy Andy, Volume One (Esprios Classics) written by Samuel Lover and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Lover (24 February 1797 - 6 July 1868), also known as "Ben Trovato" ("well invented"), was an Irish songwriter, composer, novelist, and a painter of portraits, chiefly miniatures. He was the grandfather of Victor Herbert. Lover produced a number of Irish songs, of which several - including The Angel's Whisper, Molly Bawn, and The Four-leaved Shamrock - attained great popularity. He 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 1846-8. He joined with Charles Dickens in founding Bentley's Magazine.