Thomas Dermody

His promise brought him, generous patrons, in his early days in Ireland, but he scorned the hand that fed him, denied the friends who would have nursed his genius, and ran away to England to keep bad company.

They clothed and cleaned him and made him presentable, but he would drink himself to nakedness and rags and behave like a brute.

He was filled with conceit and a slave to his desires, but the lines that are fading away on the stone above his grave show that he was a poet.

Gilbert Austin (who in 1789 published a volume of Dermody’s poems at his own expense), a Mr. Atkinson and finally the Dowager Countess of Moira.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge took an interest in some of his verse which had been included in the literary magazine The Anthologia Hibernica.