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2 unusual facts about Desmond Henry Ryan


Desmond Henry Ryan

He was also connected as musical and dramatic critic with The Morning Post, Morning Chronicle, Morning Herald, and other journals.

He wrote the words of a large number of songs, including Songs of Even, with music by Frederick Nicholls Crouch (1841), a set of twelve Sacred Songs and Ballads by Edward Loder (1845), and a collection of Songs of Ireland, in which, with Crouch, he fitted old melodies with new words.



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