Mocking criticisms of the USA.

Lyrics to a series of Irish tunes in the manner of Haydn's settings of British folksongs.

Moore is often considered Ireland's national bard and is to Ireland what Robert Burns is to Scotland. 

Although Moore was an Irish Catholic and the son of a Dublin grocer, Moore became the fashionable versifier of Regency England.  His Irish Melodies, published between 1807 and 1834 with accompanying music (some of the tunes by Moore himself), were an immense success, and for many years his wit, charm, liberalism, and singing voice made him a brilliant figure in literary and social circles, especially among the aristocratic Whig reformers.  The same qualities made him one of Byron`s closest friends.  He wrote numerous satires, lampoons, and prose pieces.  He is chiefly remembered, however, for the Oriental verse romance Lalla Rookh (1817), which achieve