{"id":21725,"date":"2022-10-01T03:02:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T02:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/event\/the-poems-of-j-de-jean-the-workman-poet-from-birr\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T03:02:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T02:02:04","slug":"the-poems-of-j-de-jean-the-workman-poet-from-birr","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/the-poems-of-j-de-jean-the-workman-poet-from-birr\/","title":{"rendered":"The Poems of &#8216;J. De Jean&#8217;, the Workman Poet from Birr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><span><span><span><span>\u2018J. de Jean\u2019 was the <em>nom-de-plume<\/em> of John Frazer (<em>c<\/em>. 1804\u20131852), a Presbyterian of Huguenot extraction, cabinet-maker and a native of Birr, co. Offaly. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span>As a young man he started writing poetry, and his first work \u2013 a lengthy poem entitled \u2018Eva O\u2019Connor\u2019 was published in 1826 (Richard Milliken, Grafton Street, Dublin). During the 1840s individual poems, increasingly expressing a radicalised politics, appeared in the newspapers and periodicals of the day.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span>Three local historians have worked to collate this poetry and publish it as a volume in partnership with Offaly History.\u00a0 The launch will be in Birr on Friday 18th November 2022.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21726,"template":"","class_list":["post-21725","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Poems of &#039;J. 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