![]() ![]() Shortly after he obtained his appointment with the Customs he made his first trip to London and from then on he visted regularly, contributing frequently to that city's periodicals. ![]() When William was nineteen he became a Customs officer, and he was stationed at different places in Northern Ireland from then until he was thirty nine years old. ![]() He transcribed these ballads, and changed them to his liking and then had them printed in broadsheet form to sell in the locality. When he was thirteen years old became a clerk in the bank where his father worked as the manager, he worked there for about six years, during that time, he used the words and images of poetry for the satisfaction of his soul.He loved poetry from an early age and we are told he would wander about Ballyshannon in the evening, listening to the girls singing old ballads at their cottage doors. ![]()
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