lifestyle. McGowan's song "The Snake with Eyes of Garnet" features Mangan as a character: Last night as I lay dreaming My way across the sea James Mangan brought me comfort With laudanum and poitin… A 1979 novel by Northern Irish/Canadian novelist Brian Moore, The Mangan Inheritance, tells the story of (fictional) young American James Mangan traveling to Ireland to find whether he is descended from the poet. While Mangan still has not acquired the critical clout of Joyce or Yeats, more recent literary criticism has begun to seriously consider his work. Largely, this can be attributed to the publication of David Lloyd's Nationalism and Minor Literature: James Clarence Mangan and the Emergence of Irish Cultural Nationalism in 1987. Lloyd's work was the first to seriously attempt to untangle Mangan the man from the nationalist poet fostered by John Mitchel. Private papers of Mangan are held in the National Library of Ireland, the Royal Irish Academy, and the archives of Trinity College, Dublin. Bibliography References Cousin, John William: A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. (London, J.M. Dent & sons; New York, E.P. Dutton, 1910) Boylan, Henry, A Dictionary of Irish Biography, (Dublin, Gill and Macmillan, 1978) External links James Clarence Mangan and The Nation newspaper or the making of a national poet. Lecture by Bridget Hourican, Dublin 2017. Ten poems by James Clarence Mangan 1803 births 1849 deaths Deaths from cholera Irish poets People from County Dublin Infectious disease deaths in Ireland Burials at Glasnevin Cemetery 19th-century poets 19th-century Irish poets 19th-century Irish people