One of the servant-maids was May Etheridge, who married Lord Edward Fitzgerald during the run of the show and subsequently became the Duchess of Leinster.
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March 31 – Edward Fitzgerald (died 1883), English writer and poet best known for his English translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Edward Fitzgerald, 74, English poet and translator, best known for his translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
Boulge church is the burial place of the local poet and writer Edward Fitzgerald, whose most famous work was his translation of the The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
The house is best known as the birthplace Edward FitzGerald (31 March 1809 – 14 June 1883), who went on to translate the Rubàiyàt of Omar Khayyàm.
He is known also for the translations The Garden of Bright Waters: One Hundred and Twenty Asiatic Love Poems (1920); and of the Kashmiri poet Bilhana in Bilhana: Black Marigolds (1919), a free interpretation in the tradition of Edward FitzGerald.
The first of his works to attract wide attention was Rubáiyát (nine quatrains by Omar Khayyám in Edward FitzGerald's English translation, 1948; for chorus with soprano and tenor solos, 2 pianos and percussion), awarded the prestigious Music Prize of the City of Amsterdam in 1948.
Catherine Fitzgerald continued to live for a time under charge of Tyrone's father-in-law, Lord Anglesey, but on Easter eve 1677 she left his house, and was married the same day to Edward Villiers, eldest son of George Villiers, 4th Viscount Grandison.
In 1866, in The Sham Squire, he followed up the story of Lord Edward Fitzgerald's betrayal.