T. W. Rolleston

Poet and scholar Thomas William Hazen Rolleston was born in 1857, when the effects of Ireland’s Great Famine were still palpable and the Irish diaspora was in full force. While at Trinity College, Dublin, he won the Vice Chancellor’s Prize for English Verse.  Later, he lived abroad working as a successful journalist and linguistic scholar in both Germany and London.  Rolleston is remembered as a leader of the Irish Literary Revival movement, as an expert translator of Greek and German, and as a prolific scholar,