O’Neill, Alicia Jane (née Sparrow) (F)

Surname: O’Neill (née Sparrow)
Forename(s): Alicia Jane
d. 30 September 1858. Nationality: Irish.
Poet. Born in Killabeg, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford. Father was Edward Sparrow. Married William Percival O’Neill in 1846. Regular periodical and literary annual contributor, including to The Dublin University Magazine, Athenaeum, Book of Beauty. Died young. Biographical information: David James O’Donoghue, The Poets of Ireland, Part I, The Paternoster Steam Press, 1892, pp. 196-6; Colman p. 208; Curran Index. (AC)

Poems associated with this person

Total poems: 15
Poem title Date Periodical Roles id #
Hannibal 1843 The Keepsake Poet 4962
Too Late 1846 The Keepsake Poet 5180
Lines 1848 The Keepsake Poet 5513
Schiller’s Last Words 1849 The Keepsake Poet 5779
Stanzas 1850 The Keepsake Poet 5686
Words of Love. From the German of Körner 1850 The Keepsake Translator 5690
Stanzas 1851 The Keepsake Poet 5585
The Early Called 1851 The Keepsake Poet 5570
My Household Jewels 1852 The Keepsake Poet 5598
Lines From the German 1853 The Keepsake Translator 5619
Lines 1854 The Keepsake Poet 5655
To a Departed Poetess 1854 The Keepsake Poet 5666
The Last Request 1855 The Keepsake Poet 5721
A Child in Heaven 1856 The Keepsake Poet 5753
To My Mother. Composed during Illness 1857 The Keepsake Poet 5772